Just got home , had the roast pork, got a huge plate.
There was about 8 people in the club + staff, and the dinning room was empty when I arrived.
Us guys had dinner, and then poki time, made some money to add to our xmas party fund.
I have occasionally tried the pokies and never win.
What's the trick ?
Met one of the pensioner locals today, said she won 10,000 at bingo. WOW.
Tonight was sweet n sour fried chicken wings.
Then made spag bol with fresh parmesan for main.
Today being Friday, of course it should be a minor sausage or two! But due to the winter solstice, tonight it will be a holy crushed royal meatball concoction, surrounded by whatever can be excavated safely from the freezer in the shape of vegetables.
Might have a dessert also just to be frost bitten rebellious ... rice pudding?
It's going to be a very long weekend ... 
@kopenhagen5 wrote:I have occasionally tried the pokies and never win.
What's the trick ?
No trick,
my friends and also my wife play regularly, and have our favourite machines.
We have a limit as to how much we will put in them,and never put in any more on the night usually $10 each.
May sometimes put in $20 but it is extremely rare. Last night my wife and I made a $40 profit.
If we manage to double our money we will pull it out, and will stop playing. we never get greedy or expect the machine to pay out the jackpot. If we get a good pay, we will play it up or down to a round figure. Eg, if we have $24, we will either play it back to $20 or if luck is with us, play it up to $30, and take it out.
Wednesday night, we all put in $10 and played for about a 1 1/2 hours, we all play the same machine taking turns
(and have some funny rules that we have made) we all got our money back and made another $30.
The profit goes towards our boys night xmas get together (4 of us), currently we have close to $500 in our xmas fund.
Last night we had roast lamb.
Tonight my wife suggested we go to the Bar & Grill restaurant to have pork ribs. I'm happy ! 
Tonight we are off to the local, I plan to have a Steak Roll with some chips.
Have a Raspberry cheese cake in the oven and may have a slice when I get home.
Providing I can stand 
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Spaghetti and home made meatballs with garlic bread tonight.
Couldn't get any easier. 
Meatballs out of the freezer, chucked cooked gently in the turbo with garlic bread for 10 mins.
Then the sauce is this -
plus this -
heated together in a saucepan.
With apologies to Tas for very bad French............
Not far away.
I just made spinach fettucini bolognese with mushroom and fresh parmesan.
I make a large batch of bolognese at times and freeze in many small tupperwares.
So easy to make dinner in 15 mins. 
