This will hurt me...

The actual dam part of Risdon Brook Dam. September 2010. Bright sunshine and blue skies! What a welcome return after seemingly endless days of grey. It is just a pity that such lovely weather is wasted on meetings trapped in infernal, internal, inadequately ventilated rooms. Don’t even get me started on the cake…

Not quite the parting of the Red Sea, but Ez manages to get the clouds apart at Risdon Brook Dam for a few minutes...

Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator Cranky Hanky strides in like a cold-blooded assassin at Risdon Brook Dam.

A guard tower? Risdon Brook Dam. August 2010. I made a carrot cake, and Henry ate carrots. What other vegetables can be made into cake? Which leads me straight to today's Sunday Top Five , My Top Five Vegetables Off The Top Of My Head ! Potato : can't go past the humble spud! More versatile than an egg, and prettier than a cucumber! Onion : these buggers can go in just about anything. I'm not a fan of them raw, but they cook up a storm. Pumpkin : no room for Jack 'o Lanterns, but whether in soup, baked, mashed, roasted or even pan fried, the pumpkin is our friend. Beetroot : you know what they say... Leek : we eat a lot of leeks, and we're not even Welsh. Just missing the list were cabbage, sweet potato, carrots, shallots, parsnips, spinach, broccoli, and cauliflower. I also have much, much love for those forgotten vegetables , rhubarb and ginger. Swinging nor' nor' east. Risdon Brook Dam. August 2010.

Ezra explores the mud by the side of a path. In it, he did not find a) tadpoles; b) frogs; c) crocodiles; d) great white sharks or e) world peace. We were all disappointed.

This week, Ezra will be modelling... hat hair .

Can we walk on water? Risdon Brook Dam, August 2010. Henry is distraught that the local source of water – Risdon Brook Dam – is not infested with crocodiles. The only succour for him is that it is highly unlikely that a mighty and angry salty will emerge from the tap during a bath and vigorously demonstrate the death roll .