short Adelaide interlude

I made a quick trip to Adelaide in the furtherance of Mum's Will.  Things seem to be proceeding ok, though I'm likely to make another trip in a cuppla month's time.  It wasn't all business:

Pearl and I went to Plant 4 for the strangest Thai curry I have ever encountered.

The sashimi was good.

From there we drove past Lady Jayne's grandma's house so Pearl could show me a community garden she's discovered.  It is opposite this church which, from memory, is Romanian Orthodox.

You may not be as interested in the garden as I am.  It is small.  You can just about see the length of it in the photo above.  It is narrow, running between the street and railway line.  My interest is that it may serve as a model for a memorial garden to my friend Mel, founder of Friends of Triabunna Reserves.

This is the info kiosk you can see in the first picture.  Note the cut-outs to hold pot plants.

the entry to the walk with info kiosk visible to the right

people have made their own contributions

 colourful boxes of a type I've not seen before - birds?  insects?  bats?

a luxurious bee hotel

The railway line is on the other side of the fence.

sawdust path with mosaic inlays

more mosaics on the stobie poles aka power poles

a bench for plant exchanges

Not sure about the legitimacy of the trolleys...

All very inspiring and, I think, do-able.  We drove home via North Terrace, one of my favourite Adelaide Streets.

an impressive display

There are so many ways.

I made myself at home at Pearl's place

but did venture to a local cafe for a most satisfactory espresso martini.

fascinating Adelaide street art

aloes in flower as I've never seen them before, en route to bus stop

Adorable Niece doing a spot of cooking

for her own fabulous birthday meal.

There were other delights of which I have no pictorial record including lunch with Pearl and Jill at our table in our pub at Port Eliot after an evening with a friend of Pearl who was returning to Uganda the next day while we simultaneously listened to Jill's 60s radio show.

The weather in Adelaide was overcast and cold.  My first morning back in Tribes was cold and frosty.

Some people chose to catch what morning sun they could in the sunroom aka Jill's bedroom,

while a Tassie Tiger quietly left for its very secret hideout.