Mmm... Pancakes...

Happy Shrove Tuesday everyone (retrospectively of course), that most random of Holidays for all non-catholics, which marks a perfectly good excuse to eat pancakes for dinner! The link is for the Shrove tuesday wiki entry... I like the sound of Fat Tuesday better, or best of all the Icelandic version Sprengidagur (Bursting Day). Although Pancakes > Salted Meat and Peas any day!

Normally I look forward to Shrove tuesday for months, and then forget all about it on the day. A bit like Daisy from the Great Gatsby, except I'm prettier and Suzy doesn't smuggle booze for a living (at least... I don't think she does!)

Luckily, Suzy was to the rescue and announced that dinner would be pancakes and bacon. Unfortunately for me, I didn't have the final component (maple syrup) for a canadian breakfast, so instead I settled for lemon juice and sugar. Suzy had lemon juice and cheese on her pancakes... THE HORROR!

Here is an action shot of her being all domestic and junk. She flips a fine 'cake, much better than I usually manage (mine always end up all mangled, I can never get the flip far enough under the pancake without ruining it... I would probably do better on a hot-plate rather than a pan).

In other news, we saw a few real estate agents over the weekend, and lets just say the first one seemed fine until the second one turned up and showed us how it should be done. I didn't mind the first guy, from a Callagher, a small local firm, although lets say I wasn't surprised when he revealed that he used to work in marketing. He had a look around, gave us what he felt was a reasonably price range for advertising and was generally pretty cadgey on specific cost details etc.

The second agent, a woman from McGrath, a much larger sydney network of real estates, was much more impressive. She was ready to talk turkey, gave us some advice on the differences between auctions and private treaty and generally gave the impression of being both more organised and ready to commit to costs and times etc.

To cap it off, we now find out why the original guy never followed up with us, he is on holiday this week... you would think that was worth mentioning to the people trying to give you a big pot of money. Ah well!

We are looking at a early to mid-april kick off for the sale right now, that gives us a chance to get the place in order once I get back from Hong Kong and get all the marketing etc sorted out.