September is...

National Pie Month.

I've had some of them - from the "chicken and white wine" pie in the Paragon Hotel in Katoomba (superb) to the humble steak and kidney in Harry's Cafe de Wheels (very yum after a night on the booze)

But the good ones are few and far between - the vast majority are inedible cholesterol bombs and outright dangerous to your health.

Like those sad looking pies in the warm cupboard of your nearest pub. I went without pies for may years due to a really bad experience with one of those sneaky bastards.

A pie that is not freshly baked or that has been frozen at some stage or that comes out of a wrapper, is crap.

Awesomest car ever. Sold.

So there goes our fantastic Suzuki Swift, 2007 - we don't have enough words of encouragement to describe it, and to see it drive away is not the best of moments. But it's all for a good cause.

Great build quality, fun to drive, very solid, cheap on petrol, everything electric. A really good city car and I can reccommend it to anyone looking for a nice set of wheels.

In Gabriel's words: "the awesomest car ever" - sold to a family of the South Coast. Almost no haggling and no knocking down the price - the car sold itself in 30 minutes and the buyers are very happy with it.

Even better; now we have plane tickets for the Mexican Adventure.

Happy father's day

Today we indulged in one of Australia's rituals: Father's Day Yum Cha lunch.

I mean delicious and strange at the same time: how the celebration ended up in September is a mystery to me. And having to stand in line in front of the restaurant for 30 minutes, just to get a table, is almost a leap of faith.

At the end of the wait, there's the feast. Between steaming platters of pork buns, and seafood and vegetable dumplings, it's all good.

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