Chocolate pastry and pink hat

Here Bella is sampling a home-made chocolate palmier [pastry heart] and is caught mid-chew. Note the pink hat - she is OBSESSED with her hat and wears it every waking minute that she is allowed - to the point where we forget what she looks like without it! Today the poor hat is a bit smeared and smudged with the remains of her lunch [marmite sandwich mostly], so I will wash it tonight and make sure it's dry by morning, or all hell may well break loose in our wee house...

Fraz is off at his friend's wedding today - at Westpac Stadium no less - and the bride and groom are being helicoptered into the stadium! Fraz was helping out with the music [not performing it], and is a guest also. I did have the option of going but didn't have anywhere to put the kids so decided to skip it. Would have been fun...

My latest pick from the library is a book I really recommend - "Misha, A Memoire of the Holocaust Years", by Misha Defonesca. It tells the true tale of a small 7-year-old Jewish Belgian girl who sets off on a 3,000 mile journey on foot that takes her 4 years, in search of her parents who were taken away during the Second World War. Along the way she witnesses horrific events and herself commits murder, she is befriended by a family of wolves and doesn't speak to another human for most of the time. She clings to the hope that her parents will be there in the end and it is this hope that keeps her alive. It's a gripping story - I couldn't put it down!