K is for kids, kitchen and King Lear

I've been having a lovely time.  Georgia, Oscar and Ella came for a cuppla days.

Oscar and Jill PD fell in lurve.

We did some tripping around with Steve to look at arty places he has painted.  Georgia and Ella wanted to go swimming so Steve took us to a sliver of a beach at East Shelly.

 I was captivated by these steps from the carpark but so far haven't ascended to see where they go.

Georgia and Ella did a quick refreshing dip.  The day was pleasantly warm - though they thought it was hot!

On the way home, Georgia and I dropped into Colleen's place.  She had invited me to view the wysteria in flower but I hadn't had a chance to get there.  No-one was home so we boldly explored the garden and fell in love with the place.  Absolutely dreamy even with the wysteria past its best.

My own garden underwent some changes to help the Singaporeans cope with the heat.

All rather lovely.  I do love their spontaneity.

On Tuesday we walked to the Anglican church which Georgia had espied.  It is a lovely little church and seems to have been reprieved from the plan to sell a number of Anglican Churches to raise funds for the redress scheme.  Triabunna parishioners were particularly aggrieved because some time ago there was an abusing clergyman in residence and people felt they were being abused again by the loss of their church.  While I understand that it is not to be sold, it is not currently in use, Rev. Trev having recently retired.

But for me, miracle of miracles!  The lily of the valley, which had been destroyed by spraying a few years ago, have returned.

This was the same day that Lady Jayne sent photos of her lily of the valley from her garden.  Such a wonderful coincidence.  Now I just have to sneak around to the church with a shovel.

From the church we made our way to The Village to see Steve's artwork there, plus the Green Bean's Botaniko Exhibition.

Georgia wanted to pick gumleaves for fabric dyeing experiments.

Sadly Kit and Remi didn't visit this time.  I re-organised the kitchen cupboards recently with Kit in mind.  Visitors used to complain that they didn't understand the logic behind our storage system.  Basically that was because there wasn't one.  Steve always gets to a new house first and implements his system, then I arrive and add mine.  After deep consideration and consultation we have come up with an arrangement that suits us both.

just about a pantry

just about an office system

just about a Welsh dresser

All very logical.

Tuesday afternoon I drove to Bellerive for the launch of a book about the Bellerive Sorell Railway.  Bellerive Historical Society books don't hold great attraction for me these days but this one is by John Houghton who is just about the nicest person you could meet so I had to go to catch up with him.

I had a little saunter around Bellerive waterfront before the launch and came upon this interesting piece of information

on a display map of Bellerive in the 1930s!!!!

Here is John in the corner of the Waterfront Hotel (formerly Clarence Hotel) signing books.

And here's why historical societies make you feel so young.
Anyway, it was a good event nicely catered for by the Waterfront Hotel which apparently provided the catering free of charge.  I suggested to Anne M that we have a glass of bubbly.  She'd been relief teaching all day and was very tired, sadly too tired to drink bubbles.  And, as she said, I had to drive back to Tribes.
King Lear has been on my mind.  It is a play I really like.  We had to study it at school, possibly for Matriculation, and it amuses me that one of the few quotes I remember is 'Kill! Kill!  Kill!', referring I think to the stabbing of Polonius behind the arras (Corinne would know).  It doesn't seem a particularly desirable take-home educational idea but it wafts through my mind as I declare war on the harlequin bugs storming the garden.