26-50 of my Glitterlist update. Part 2.
Part 2 of 4 updates on this list 6 months in. It’s more of a list to remind me where I’m going & the snapshot of where I’m at. Writing newsletters is a part of that list-being accountable to myself.
Set my children up with the basics of life skills, like basic cooking, housekeeping, organising, and being naturally inquisitive about things. Culture them to hold a grit and ‘can try’ mentality. Teach that failure is apart of the process. Teaching them to make pancakes, Spaghetti meat base, how to cook toasties on the fire, make cakes from scratch following a recipe book and do eggs different ways. I want them to be able to choose things to make that arn’t instant, to do this I don’t own a microwave - I haven’t had one for over a decade.
Get dressed up, go to the Theatre a few times a year. Take the kids. We went to an Archipelago Productions play written by First dog on the Moon at the Royal theatre - which was great. ‘The Carbon Neutral Adventure of the Indefatigable Enviroteens is a riotous graphic novel by the highly regarded, Walkley Award winning cartoonist and social commentator First Dog on the Moon. Published in 2020, it is immediate, enlightening, intelligent and hilarious.’ Big fans over here of Mr Dogs work. We have one of his signed cartoon strips from The Guardian signed in they kitchen. Also kids went to a Disney play of Winnie the Poo at The Theatre Royal.
Learn how to do calligraphy. Write more letters, aim for one a week. I have the pens, the ink and the paper. I did an impromptu rough hand written menu mockup for a Analise private house lunch a few months back.
Learn to cook different nationality food by heart, French, Indian, Thai, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Irish and Greek….. Japanese and Irish at the moment. I got The Irish Bakery cookbook by my friend Cherie Denham as I’m super keen to make Irish bread - just like I had in Ireland. At 75% off I picked up a Brunswick Baker …. It’s cast iron so note, until it’s seasoned, it needs to be oiled inside + out or it will rust. I need to do that this way here
Identify foraging the roadsides/fields during harvest seasons in my region and map these spots out - and the seaweeds and learn their uses. I learnt how to Foodmap during Milkwood’s Permaculture Living Course (the next one starts off on the 22nd April, and not only is it a great one if your a Tasmanian, its the perfect 12 week winter project to sink your teeth into). Around me right now the orchards are filled with Apples and worked out a few fennel, pears, seaweed, periwinkle, wild garlic & mussel spots. The road to Hobart is like a food mecca for foraged food and road side stalls - theres a few new ones opened more recently. Went to the Eat More Wild Tasmania book lauch down at Southport and got the little Seaweed Supplement handbook. This is a gold book to understanding what you can eat from the land. Both can be found in Fullers Bookstorenand you can also get Sarah’s little bird cards in the bookstore too.