South Melbourne Market with ducks

On Christmas Eve we ventured to the South Melbourne market to stock up on food for Christmas Day. Wow, was it packed!!!!

 Hardly room to hold up a duck to be photographed!! Fabulous food so well worth the effort.

 Couldn't resist asking these young boys busking to participate with a duck in the violin case. Those ducks will go anywhere.

Christmas Day food was a wonderful combination of South Melbourne market and the St Kilda Farmer's market purchases. We managed to go to the St Kilda Farmer's market on the Wednesday evening. Naturally, we did not manage to actually consume all the food we purchased!  I was eating well for the next two weeks of my Melbourne sojourn. 

James Pond

You may have noticed a new duck in the Christmas photos, so I shall introduce you.

This is James Pond, licensed to quack!  Oh and the little devils to assist him.  


These charmers were a present from my daughter and a delightful companion to Big Duck.  The little ducks can be sometimes unruly and Big Duck was quite pleased to have a companion as back up and help keep the little ones in line with reality checks.


And more quacking is always a good idea!

Christmas 2009

Christmas has been lovely, of course.  The right amount of company, food and wine.  Weather has been hot and steamy so we have retreated to inside with air con on and books and cricket.  Relaxing.

The ducks joined us for Christmas and this dish of ducks was the closest I have come to ducks in a culinary setting, if you don't count the duck liver pate with cranberry. Unfortunately I have not made the santa hats, maybe before next December these will happen.  Slowly, slowly.  What seemed important a few weeks ago wasn't so important to accomplish as time fell into the week before Christmas. 


When we are all together on Boxing Day it is celebrated with heads in books; cricket on the TV - sound off, radio commentary on; start of the Sydney-Hobart; left over food turned into something different to excite the appetite and canasta.  Actually, I think these items are on the agenda of the children wherever they are on Boxing Day.

The ducks enjoyed our traditional Boxing Day with the cricket as well.