Monday dinner. Roast chicken thigh with fennel and pomegranate salad with some Australian finger lime caviar plus avocado and feta cheese. I 💚 lime flavours so much. I cooked the chicken at 250 °C/480 °F for 30 minutes.
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There really isn’t too much to write about this week. I’ve been quite focused on work and really haven’t spent much time online on social media and surprisingly, I didn’t even think of what I might write this week until I sat down now to start. In a lot of ways, I like weeks like this when my entire focus is on work-related matters. That said, it is unusual not to at least start planning what I will write every weekend sometime during the week.
Easter Saturday on Lake Ginninderra on a dull and overcast day but with some lovely colourful sights in terms of cows, birds, and buoys.
After breakfast at Everbean Espresso Bar and grocery shopping, I went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra. The skies were grey but the grass green and the fauna quite delightful.
Easter Saturday photographs
Buoys on Lake GinninderraEarth moving equipment on Lake GinninderraFlying fox on Lake GinninderraCows on Lake GinninderraIs this a Rosella on Lake Ginninderra
This afternoon I replaced my wi-fi router with a new one hoping that a new one would offer improved speed over the original one I’ve had since 2010. Sadly, I can’t appreciate any discernible improvement. I’m guessing the limiting factor is the ADSL2 service I’m receiving. I wish I had the National Broadband Network where I live. I was hoping upload speeds would be improved. I find it really frustrating uploading photographs and videos. It can take all day.
For dinner tonight I made a bacon and chicken spicy congee with quinoa. I was nearly late. I was planning to use my pressure cooker but I couldn’t find the safety valve. I finally found it in a drawer.
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and I plan to eat quite a lot of chocolate.
For those interested, I shot the Easter Saturday Lake Ginninderra photographs with a Sony α7ii with a 24–240 mm lens. I edited the photographs in Adobe Lightroom and Luminar. I really like oversaturating the colours, depressing the highlights and enhancing the shadows while keeping the blacks intact. I shot these images mostly at f/8 aperture and 1/1000 second shutter speed. I had the ISO set to AUTO.
Canberra started to warm up towards the end of the week with yesterday getting to 35 °C (95 °F). Overnight it remained warm. I slept poorly, not because it was warm, but it seems every Friday night I wake up at about 3 am and just lay awake. It’s so annoying.
At 5 am I got out of bed and ground some beans to make a strong coffee. I got a sense the day would be cooler. This is a good thing because I wanted to make sure I got to walk around Lake Ginninderra to get some exercise.
Breakfast
It’s hard to beat a weekend classic. Streaky bacon and fried eggs.
Grocery shopping
Before the shopping, there must be coffee!
One of the new annoyances in Canberra is the ACT Government imposition on shopping centres to attach locks and chains on shopping trolleys.
This is being done to reduce the number of trolleys abandoned on footpaths, in car parks, in the lake and elsewhere. The problem is instead of trying to develop a nuanced and tailored solution, a cheap inconvenient method has been adopted.
What I’ve noticed around Belconnen and Woden is abandoned trolleys are still there and some of them have been locked together.
These trolleys stand defiant despite their chains despite their bondage. #canberra #cbr #nannystate #civildisobedience #chains #iphoneMating trolleys from Woolworths and Coles
Lake Ginninderra
The relatively cool weather should have meant more people walking around the lake, but it was oddly quiet. The clouds were quite good and with a little extra editing in Adobe Lightroom and Luminar or Aurora HDR I hope these photographs don’t look too crunchy.
I know a lot of people really prefer a more natural look, but for some reason, I like crunchy HDR.
It was good to see the cows back under the trees on the north-east side of Lake Ginninderra.
This is where the cows were
Lunch in the mall
Despite having done the bulk of my grocery shopping earlier, some things weren’t on the shelves. Given I finished walking around Lake Ginninderra at about noon, I thought I may as well have lunch in the mall. I had no idea what I wanted to eat. I knew I didn’t want a burger or Mexican or Chinese food. In the end, I went with potato gems (also known as tater tots in the USA).
An afternoon of relaxing
I spent the afternoon editing photographs and thinking about what to make for dinner.
