Sometimes life just keeps pitching sliders at you so fast, that all you can think about is food.
Is it a biological imperative, I wonder, to try to deflect what happens (and is happening to) in front of our eyes and instead think of all the senses, and how it pertains to food.
Image: breakfast of champions, two slices of toast, one with black Vegemite and green avocado slathered on and one slice with Dad's grapefruit marmalade
V's team is the Padres, therefore my team is the Padres (number 23 has always been my lucky number).
Their season unfortunately ended today.
Whilst that does not necessarily mean that the baseball has ended for the year, what is on offer is poor consolation.
What it does mean is the "it's time to get serious" moment has come in regards the Dr Pepper and the occasional burger and the hours of hope every week invested in a team?
Alls I know is that I have to find a spot to store the ice bucket.
Image: clockwise from front - a tangle of hose with spraygun attached, two black pots bereft of beetroot, seedpods of basil in background against a corrugated iron fence, a sad tale of Dill's End, a pot with lone tomato plant fruiting o'er the side and a white brick.
Through a series of unfortunate events I will have an unexpected weekend at home this weekend.
I normally try to get to see Mum and Dad 2 weekends a month, but October is unbelievably busy so in a way this time here is a gift but I won't get to see them there for another month.
Image: proof that sometimes sewing tins do indeed have biscuits
These biscuits need no metaphorical draping, they offer what they've got - they smell delicious; they look delicious; they are very, very quiet; their touch light and sweet - and they taste divine. Even better with free lemons. The Loopy Whisk's gluten-free-lemon-crinkle-cookies
Image: cartoon of a woman returning from holidays coming in through a white door being greeted by a portly, yellow cat, speech bubble says "Welcome home. Oh, and that automatic cat feeder... niiiice!
Happy to give credit where due but I have realised that doing reverse image search for authentic creators of stuff on the internet is a task that I am not (yet) prepared to instigate - so show yourself if you be the clever one who put the above together.
