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An Angel in Australia

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This audiobook is by Tom Keneally who is a well-known and successful author in Australia and the story is interesting.

As it is about a parish priest who gets to know some of the locals, by what they choose to confess to him about.

I also thought that the young priest was very helpful and persevering when: it came to helping these individuals when they talked about their problems.

I was also delighted when familiar places like the Blue Mountains, and Parramatta Road were mentioned in this story.

Tuna Curry

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Ingredients:

1 cup of green split peas

1 cup of Doongara brown rice

2 chopped onions

1x400gms of tuna in spring water (drained)

2 tsp of Keen’s curry powder

1 can of coconut cream

1 1/2 cups of frozen mixed vegetables

Method:

1 Put one cup of green split peas in a saucepan of water, then add one cup of brown rice in same saucepan and heat until grains are cooked.

2 Add the chopped onions to a frying pan then add the drained tuna when onions are partly cooked then add the coconut cream and the mixed veggies.

3 Then once the tuna mixture is cooked drain the green split peas and rice then add to the tuna mixture and combine the ingredients well. Enjoy!

The Dictionary of Lost Words

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The Dictionary of Lost Words is by Pip Williams and comes in book form or audiobook and people can probably get it as an e-book too.

It is a historical fiction story about a girl called Esme who is absolutely fascinated by words and what they mean, and how they can be used in sentences. As she virtually grew up in a place that is called the scriptorium which is a real place as there are photographs.

Then in this story it mentioned that one day while Esme was under the sorting table where they sorted out what word that was going in a dictionary: which was going to be published.

The girl watched a scrap of paper land in her lap and the piece of paper had the word bond maid written on it.

Though as she was very young at the time Esme didn’t know how to say the word or what it meant but it was the start of something that she created. As she decided to call her rescued words her dictionary of lost words and it was a very interesting story: because the story was set in an era where not a lot of jobs were available for females during that time.