That soup sounds lovely, Trish. So does the quilt party. A wonderful way to keep warm!
About the morning thread (from an Aussie point of view) - the tricky thing is, we ARE entitled to start the Good Morning thread as soon as it is legitimately morning wherever we happen to be. But when I actually did this (and later on, husband did the same thing) people were so confused! I was getting posts like, "Hey, we're still posting for Friday here, and now we have a Saturday thread already? Someone must be REALLY confused...!"
Besides, we're so early compared to the resy of the world, that if we began the morning thread when it's morning OUR time, nobody else in the world would ever get a look-in (except our friends in NZ, across the ditch).
So feel free to start the morning thread any time. We can start it, but I keep a watch on the time according to wherever the CD server happens to be, and base it there. husband has set up some widgets for us, I can quickly check what time it is in various parts of the world according to where we have friends/family. Sometimes I sit back and wait for someone else to start the morning thread even though I might be impatient to sat something. But other times - I'm watching the clock and checking the CD site for whatever time it thinks it is, then I go for it.
I would hate to think I could be cramping your style. I'm enjoying another Aussie on the board!
ABout the soup - have you seen Jim Hensons' "The Storyteller"? My kids watched it, then one day when we were on holidays we acted it out and I made "Stone Soup" using rubbish and scraps. I used the leftover chicken carcass from a BBQ chook from the night before; carrot peelings; onion skin and the trimmings from a lot of other vegetables. Because we were on holiday it was a fairly empty and unusual larder, we had some interesting bits of rubbish. We only made a small quantity, I used a smooth river stone from the motel garden. But it caught easy child 2/difficult child 2's imagination. When she moved out, she took that very stone with her, so she could continue to make "stone soup". Of course she knows how it really works, but she's in love with the romance of it all. And she now makes some amazing soup!
husband is now on antibiotics for whooping cough.
difficult child 3 & I are getting our blood tested tomorrow for whooping cough antibodies. I've started on asthma medications to try to relieve the symptoms. I have to book the appointment for Tuesday to see the GP. husband's bruising is looking quite spectacular - Robert the Bruise. All from coughing. I'm sore and have a lump on the ribs where his was, I suspect I have bruising developing also.
And one of the factors with me - I'm still on prednisone, which can't be making it easy for my body to fight this bug. But although it's only a low dose, I can't just stop it. The doctor that ordered it, I see him in two weeks. But I'm going to ask the GP on Tuesday, if I can begin tapering off the prednisone sooner.
OK, bedtime. It's almost Saturday here now. And I need to leave at 8.30 tomorrow morning. NOT happy, Jan! (I don't think anyone outside Australia understands THAT one!)
Enjoy your Friday & Saturday, everyone.
Marg