Where am I?

For those of you who may have thought that I had fallen off the planet....you may very well be right.
Jamie and I have relocated to Hobart, Tasmania!
Well we seem to have fallen off the 'mainland' it would seem which is what Tasmanians like to call it.

We are now living on the apple isle and I had 2 apple trees full of lovely red apples in the back garden to prove it! Yes... HAD! Am going to have to make a bit of a quick adjustment back into being a Tassie girl because I left it slightly too long to pick my lovely red apples from the tree and the possums cleared out the lot! Gotta be quick round here!

The other thing I learned recently was that when one picks lovely fresh red tomatoes from the garden and makes delicious pasta sauce, one has to be extra careful to get rid of the little grubs first in case they turn up on top of ones spaghetti! URGH! No pesticides is apparently a good thing?

I will begin teaching voice lessons at IHOS studios in North Hobart in the next few weeks as well as returning to Sydney next week to teach at the Independent from Wed 14th to Fri 16th April. Drop me an email if you'd like to book in a time but make it snappy as spots seem to be filling fast.

Last week Jamie and I performed in IHOS Opera's production called 'Kitchen Table Rondo'. A crazy new composition about food, family and tradition. Each act was performed in a different location. The first on a train platform, the second act in an old warehouse and the third in a traditional Greek Hall. All set up with props, lights, smoke machines, radio mikes...impressive stuff. It was about the most avant-garde production I have ever been involved in and we had great audiences who arrived on buses and in limousines. I had to kick myself....am I in Tassie?

You may notice this blog take a bit of shift as I occasionally mention how amazing Tasmanian apples are, having bought some Golden Delicious and Cox's orange last week and actually getting a shock at how tasty they were. I may occasionally also throw in a recipe for something like pickled Beetroot which I made for the first time last week and wondered at why I have been buying it in a tin for all these years!

Yes I may harp on a little about gardening and country life....it will be a steep learning curve for me but I will also have lots of exciting musical projects on the go which I hope some of you will be keen to be involved in.

Keep you posted!
Over and out.

Tassie Girl

p.s anyone want my Pickled Beetroot recipe??