Jan’s got a thing about bread, don’t ask me why. We now have a new bread machine and are eating excellent home-made bread. We’ve had pre-mixed ingredients from a packet and a Jan’s own recipe.
Jan’s oven-baked loaf.
Jan then made bread from a special recipe provided by Kath Brandon – baked in a casserole in the oven. Take a look at the picture – yum! I’m pleased to report that all the varieties of bread have been splendid.
More bread than you can poke a stick at.
Today we went into town on the river ferry and walked through the Botanic Gardens to the Art Gallery of NSW to see the Archibald Prize exhibition. (For non-Sydney people, the Archibald is an annual prize for a portrait painting and is always good fun. There’s also the Wynne Prize for landscapes and the Sulman Prize for a genre or subject painting. Sydney painters are a competitive lot!)
There was some excellent art on the walls. The winner was a very stark gloomy portrait of a famous Sydney barrister, Charles Waterstreet.
The galleries were busy – there were parties of schoolkids wandering round with worksheets from their schools making notes and sketching.
We had lunch at the cafe in the Domain and strolled through the gardens back to our ferry. Splendid day, about 20 degrees and sunny, a bit like an English summer.
