And another busy weekend goes by..

We spent Saturday with family and friends, culminating with a dinner prepared by the men.

My contribution was a baked vegetable soup and a whole baked Brie cheese. The cheese was pierced with slivers of garlic cloves and put in a hot oven for 15 minutes.

Note: The cheese was a whole brie weighing one kg (Around 2 pound). Smaller pieces would only need ten minutes or less!

It was my first try at the recipe, and I found out later that I should have poured a red wine over the cheese before putting it in the oven.

Next time maybe!

Sunday morning was taken up by the monthly markets.

We’re trying to declutter the house, and have divided a heap of stuff into recyclable, sellable and junk!

I managed to avoid the temptation of buying at other stalls and bringing more stuff home, which would have defeated the purpose.

While the weather wasn’t the best, with rain causing an early finish to to the markets, it was still a profitable morning.

The weather cleared during the afternoon, so we went on a photo shoot to ‘Rock Forest’, an area between Bathurst and Orange in NSW on the Ophir road.

I’ve resized and placed some of the photos here for you to check out!

The day finished with a meet up of friends and family members at Jack Duggans for a couple of pints of Kilkenny and a snack!

Dinner was pumpkin soup, stroganoff and veges.

…a perfect end to the weekend!

This week is another busy one, starting at 5.00am tomorrow.

With a number of work assignments to complete this week, and some new clients to meet as well, it makes sense to start early before everyone else stirs.

While I don’t particularly like early starts (I’m still struggling with the early to bed part of the equation) an afternoon nap will help me freshen up.

Tuesday will be spent at Katoomba in the Blue Mountains working on a product launch with a client, while Thursday sees me back in the Mudgee wine region.

I hope that your weekend has been as satisfying as mine!

Have a happy, and fulfilling week!

It was a funny morning, I logged on to find that one of my posts had been thumbed down by someone who called me a ‘Millenial Attention Seeker’ and an ‘Internet Marketer’! (Shock, Horror!)

Interesting considering that it came from someone too scared to use their real name or any id at all on StumbleUpon.

The sooner social media sites use verified identities the better.

If Paypal can do it, I can’t really see why it would be so hard for Twitter and co to follow suit.

The morning improved once I logged into Plurk.

After saying G’day to my friends there, I found that Andex had shared the video below from Perpetuum Jazzile, a Slovenian Jazz Choir.

The video was recorded at at Vokal Xtravaganzza 2008.

The arrangement is by Tomaž Kozlevcar.

From Perpetuum Jazzile’s website!

Perpetuum Jazzile is Slovenia’s only jazz choir, conducted Tomaž Kozlev?ar who is also its art director. It thrills its audience with a colourful programme, extraordinary singing and unique joy.

From Wikipedia:

Founded as the Gaudeamus Chamber Choir in 1983 by Marko Tiran, Perpetuum Jazzile has been directed since 2001 by Tomaž Kozlevcar, the renowned music producer, arranger and vocalist.

I’ve been amazed by vocal percussionist Sašo Vrabic each time I’ve played this video today!

Thanks to Andex, and Perpetuum Jazzile for a great day!

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I remember listening to Dr Ed Cole (right) once as he explained how we define our world by our words.

He used the Book of Genesis as an example where the Creator spoke the worlds into existence. Ed then went on to talk about mankind being made in the Creator’s image.

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Since starting Coffee With Allan, it has grown to the point of being unwieldy, largely due to my habit of writing about anything and everything.

As a result, I have a list of categories as long as my arm, and these can take a lot of sorting and tracking.

After a lot of thinking, I have decided to spin off some of the categories into new blogs.

My passion for the Blue Mountains of NSW has resulted in Explore Katoomba.

This blog will cover topics from the history of the area, what’s on and tourist information.

My desire to print good news stories has led to the The Good News Guru

This blog will feature good news to hopefully help ward of the doom and gloom that we are being constantly told is going to envelope us in 2009.

I’m looking for guest writers and/or submissions for this one, so please keep your eyes out!

The third one today is Australian Solar Information on Neversets.com.

This blog deals with alternative energy, and things to watch out for when dealing with solar power sales people and installers.

Working in the industry myself, I’m looking to unravel some of the confusion over coming months, especially in regard to government rebates and costs.

The plus one, as from May 26 2009 is More Coffee With Allan…, which is to become my personal blog.

Coffee With Allan will center mainly on business, social media and writing from today!