Tuesday was a holiday in the Falklands but here we got on with work and Liberation day was celebrated with government gin and tonics on the veranda at 5:30pm. This day marks the end of the Falklands war in 1982.

I was on cook so decided to use some of the specialist flours etc I had brought with me from California. I made muffins with oat bran, wheat bran, apple sauce, oil, honey, bannannas and egg whites so quite healthy.

For dinner I decided to go with mexican so we had carna asada burritos with spanish rice and refried beans. As we don’t have any pinto beans I used some cans of 5 mexican bean salads to make the refried.

Seeing as we have a rather large amount of lemon curd I decided to make a dessert using lemon curd so made a lemon bar with crunchy topping and crust.

As it was a beautiful day Tommy and I went for a skin over to the Gull Lake track and did a run down. The snow was hard and fast still covering the scree. When I got back for some reason I decided the state of the pantry was in dire need of organisation so I spent the rest of the afternoon sorting through part used packages of lentils, polenta etc and re stacking cans etc. By the end I had a large pile of food that needed to be thrown out. Dried lamb granules with a 2003 expiry date isn’t too tempting!