Auckland has just had the 'Big Day out' music festival, with Muse and the Killers. I ummed and ahhed about going cos someone was crushed to death a few years ago when Limp Bizkit played and they blamed the organisers for not caring about the audience. By the time I'd decided to go (and take my kid) all the tickets had gone - Boo!

So I had a cheer myself up weekend instead.

I made a chocolate fudge cake on Saturday - it was huge - a 2lb cake tin. The centre was too light and not fudgey enough, so I won't include the recipe.

On Sunday the weather was lovely - a NZ summer day in all its glory. Spent the day on the beach with the kid bodyboarding, then came back and had a gourmet BBQ. Tried Tarahiki - a NZ white fish - firmish flaky texture. I bought fillets and marinated them in lime juice, caperberries and sweet chilli sauce, then onto the BBQ for a few mins, and served with a squirt of lemon juice. Instead of rolls I did panini grilled then topped with olive oil, BBQ'd red onions, grilled tomato and red pepper slices and some sea salt. Its also asparagus season here, so we had plainly BBQ'd asparagus. Pudding was the chocolate fudge cake, which works better as a pudding than a cake, especially when served with chocolate fudge brownie ice cream and cream. Calorie attack!!!

Best of all, there are clear skies tonight, so I and all my neighbours saw the McNaught comet. It has an amazing tail on it.
link to this for piccies is NZ Herald

The other thing I've been doing lately is reading fanfic by ljs . Having read her "What would Hugh Grant do?" fic (Ganya) I've made a start on her website (as her journal is flocked) to read more Ganya. She writes it so well - I haven't finished the fic yet, so I won't name it as I haven't commented on it - but its written the way I would want Giles and Anya to be together. Its incredibly romantic, but still with the full-on characters. Whew!


Have also started on glassdarklyuk kinky as hell Wesley/Spike fic (Spesley?) and am enjoying it immensely! I will write more about this!