The Knit Guru

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  • Lunch with friends….

    Well, not friends as you would call them, but they are good friends of mine- cheese toasties! Well, with my best friends baked-bean and cheese toasties in the corner (with faces attached) are the nibbles I am eating as I type…. cucumber slices and cracked pepper hummus.  Nom nom nom.  Just what was required to Read more

  • Breakfast on a rainy day

    Well, after a blissful week of sunshine and warm weather, we have another rainy, cold, windy day.  Sigh. So here is breakfast: Here we have wholemeal porridge with a grape and bananino face to cheer up my morning. 😀 Read more

  • Dinner without fanfare

    Well, busy is an understatement around here.  With “The Wizard of Oz” in performance next week, it’s all costumes and rehearsals and props and panicing around here! So this was dinner.  Here we have 3 portions.  One.  Cucumber slices and celery sticks with falafel.  Two.  Leftover vegetarian spaghetti bolognase.  Three.  Kiwifruit and bananino slices. The Read more

  • Divided dinner…

    Well, after the fun of Muffin Tin Monday, my tiredness was no match for my desire to have a pretty dinner……  Bento’s just seem silly for tea, so I am going with the idea of a divided dinner…. in the vain hope that I will eat healthier and eat less. Here is the first divided Read more

  • Muffin Tin Monday- Circus!

    Now, when I first figured out that Muffin Tin Monday could be joined in on, I was keen.  Then I saw the topic and was totally excited!  Tomorrow my students and I are performing our Circus tricks for primary students…. and teaching them the skills as well.  😀 Here is my first ever Muffin Tin Read more

  • Rehearsal snack lunch

    Today we are one week from performance!  ARGGGHHH!!!!! So lunch was all stuff I could eat whilst frantically directing and complaining about stuff… 😀 Here we have on the bottom layer 2 sliced kiwifruit (easily eaten with the fork), top layer almonds, cheese sticks and a banino (little tiny bananas I found at the supermarket Read more

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