I NEED YOUR HELP!

As you may have noticed, I haven’t posted much of recent times. I guess given this is a six-year project, there will be slow times. This is one of them.

I could keep blaming my new surroundings, and the late hours at work. But I have been doing that for a couple of months now, and it doesn’t do much good.

So I need your help to get me going again, and blow the cobwebs away.

All you have to do is look at the list of goals I have left, and nominate one (or two, or three) for me to complete in January. Then I will do my best to complete it in January, and dedicate the goal’s completion to you.

So, nominate away!

I was just looking through some draft posts, and I found one that I was planning to write, showing a picture of the price of petrol in Melbourne.

At the time (just a few months ago), the price was hovering around 183 cents a litre, but everytime it was there, I didn’t have my camera handy. So I never got the picture.

Anyway, having a look at Melbourne’s petrol prices today, I realise just how much has happened in a few months.

The latest price I see is 112 cents a litre. A fair drop, no doubt caused by the credit crunch and other global factors.

Just shows how much things can change, in a relatively short space of time.

So conversely, this must therefore also show how much YOU or I can change in the same relatively short space of time.

Just think, if you started something new today, like surfing, and gave it a red-hot go for six months, imagine how good you would be at the end of six months.

Most would say this is an easy goal. But any time I enter the kitchen and my meal doesn’t involve a microwave, I am filled with trepidation.

And I have heard that fish is a tricky one to get right. So that is why it was on my list.

I cooked these fish with my brother Nicholas. We choose a couple of beautiful barramundi, and bought all the ingredients for a great beer batter. The plan – beer-battered fish and chips.

The most important ingredient in any good beer batter is the beer. So we choose Coopers Original Pale Ale. Highly recommended.

And I learnt to cook fish.

Doesn’t this look restaurant-quality!

It probably doesn’t look like it, but I actually enjoyed it. I even made it again a week later, and impressed Nat.