Yes, I know it’s a completley artificial day made up by greeting card companies, but I’ve come around to Fathers’ Day (and Mothers’ Day) as an opportunity to spend time with my parents and grandparents and appreciate their being in my life. The more people I meet and the older I get I realise more and more what a fantastic family I have and what a great job they all did raising me and loving me.
Having said that- both my father and my remaining grandfather are out of the country this year. Dad is somewhere between Ireland and Spain and Grandad is on a Pacific cruise. They are both probably having a lovely time and it makes me happy to think of them.
Today is Seamus’s first Fathers’ Day as a father, so we decided to do something special. We went to the Castlemaine Farmer’s Market this morning and bought supplies for a wonderful picnic up at Kalimna Point, a local beauty spot in the National Park.
We had a multi-course picnic, bread and dip to start, then we had my first ever home made fried chicken with salad:
It worked quite well, I got the recipe from here. I wouldn’t do it every day, or even every week, but it was a lovely treat.
We then moved on to fruit,cheese and truffles for dessert, all provided from the farmer’s market:
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