A Fair to Remember

So, way back when I set up this blog, I was intending it to focus on what I was cooking, hopefully from the garden.

I thought up a title I liked, set up the blog, and promptly abandoned it.

I've been thinking about getting back into blogging for a while. I really enjoyed Things I've learnt from Magazines, and I do intend to revisit it. Now I have a full time job along with the kidlet, it's not going to be a new magazine a week, though.

In the meantime, there are things we are up to that I would like to write about.  I quite like the randomness of the title of this one though, especially if it won't mostly be about the colours of my kitchen.  I'm sure that will creep in here and there though.

In non kitcheny matters, the first thing to share is one that is going to be a monthly or so project in this house for the next year - FAIRMAGEDDON!* We live in a small country town masquerading as the nation's capital, and like all small country towns, it does fairs well. Not only does it do fairs well, but all the (proper) small towns surrounding Canberra also get into the local fair action.

This comes coupled with a 3 year old who is obsessed with fairs, thanks to My Naughty Little Sister at the Fair. (On a side note, Felicity Kendall deserves a medal in this house. Her voice and those stories have saved bedtime and our sanity on more then one occasion.)

So I've had a look around and we're planning on going to a least one fair/festival a month. Some are the ones we go to every year (like the Canberra show, or the wonderfully self-conscious bogantastic Charnie Carnie), others will be new to us (I'm looking forward to the Collector pumpkin festival in particular).

It should be a fun year. In the meantime, the colour of my kitchen for the past few months has been... green. Green for monster zucchinis, green for mint.

And green for the tomatoes that are longing for some proper summer so they can begin to ripen.

* Or fairocalypse if you prefer.