The sweet smell of bread baking or Mom's Sunday roast greeting you as you open the door certainly makes for very fond memories of childhood days not so!
My uncle Cornel who lived abroad did this painting of me from a school photo Mom sent across.
I remember coming home after school and being the oldest and only girl with four brothers, I was a tad molly-coddled and Mom often kept a little treat aside for me. All our friends would come and play at our house as their Moms did not bake bread; many hands flew out the door with thick slices of hot bread with butter melting and we would play all afternoon till it was time for homework.
Those were carefree days; school time, play time, homework or studying time and sitting around the table as a family and enjoying dinner together.
Roast Chicken dinner with creamy Potato Bake, Broc-Cauli-Kale Fritters and Gem Squash with Sweetcorn which was Monday's meal.
Back then, we did not have television here in South Africa and in the evening before bedtime, we'd all sit around the radiogram to listen to the radio dramas - and were they good at telling stories using their voices, sound effects and music; you had to really use your own imagination and form pictures in your mind:)
Everyone was catered for on the radio - Children's stories, Documentaries, Game Shows, Comedies, Music, Dramas and even Soapies; yep that's where it all started!
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Anyone out there who grew up with one of these taking pride of place in the living room?
All I wanted when I was growing up, was to be grown-up and not to have to go to school, do homework and learn for those dreaded tests and exams!
Oh boy, what a let-down when you reached adulthood but then long for those carefree childhood days! Were you the same?
Tuesday night's dinner was Macaroni & Savoury Mince Cheese
I know I've been waffling on about all kinds of scents and memories but one that we're all really enjoying here at the moment, is the scents of summer on its way - Jasmine and Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow are both blooming and giving the most heavenly and heady scents especially after dusk.
The garden really is coming alive with colour again, yep it will soon be summer in the southern hemisphere. Our Camellia is full of flowers and really looking ever so pretty!
A while back I threw some Vine Tomatoes that were past the sell-by-date into the herb garden and look what I found the other day; so now we're hoping they will ripen before the monkeys get to them!
Wednesday night was really chilly, we heard there was snow on the tops of the Drakensberg mountain range, which is approx two and a half hours from us, but the chill reaches us here with icy winds.
What better to warm the cockles than a hearty Beef & Veg Casserole served with fresh fruit and a little Sweetie Pie as an after dinner mint;)
Thursday night was a lazy dinner - Sausage & Mash served with a sweet & sour Onion Sauce & Marrows not Peas, but the plates were wiped clean afterwards.
So Friday night came and I think you've gathered by now that I'm not in the fighting mood so am flying my peace banner with a Fish & Chips takeout dinner and will watch the Food Fight Friday aka #fff action from afar.
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