Straight On With Today's Post For Two Reasons,

firstly our Internet connection is still so slow,

and secondly there did not seem to be much happening that we found interesting, amusing or just plain weird in the news today, so on to our Saturday evening bar-b-q, a starter of New Zealand mussels for myself,

 and for Diana a home made pizza,

  with our own home grown tomatoes,

 next some garlic bread,

 and for our main course a steak each, Diana had tenderised them using a steak hammer we bought last week, she was giving the steaks a good hammering when Steve from the UK telephoned, Diana was hitting the steaks so hard in the kitchen he wondered if we had builders in!

 next a real result, the fire took with hardly any smoke at all,

 I was trying to think is I had done anything differently, 

 but I used the same paper, wood and charcoal as I normally do,

 so on with the steaks,

 baked potato, carrots and Brussel sprouts and it was eyes down tuck in, 

in the afternoon Diana had spent some time in the kitchen and for an afternoon snack she had made some sausage rolls but I thought I could smell something sweet in the air as well and here it is, Diana had baked a Victoria sponge, using strawberry jam as a filling with lots of cream on top and nice it was too, for our music tonight we listen to just songs from the Beatles, it was amazing the number of popular records that they have made, also so many melodies that Diana knew but with Tagalog words, 

then inside and feet up for another episode of Ripper Street, tonight's episode Dynamite and a Woman, as enjoyable as the others in the series, here is a bit of trivia about Ripper Street, the first two series were shot in Dublin and employed a 5,000 Irish cast, extras and crew providing 170,000 Irish work hours per series, the series has been a major international hit — it has recorded highs of eight million viewers in Britain where it has been broadcast on BBC, while it has been sold to over 150 countries and BAFTA-nominated and rightly so! with that we were off to bed.