Easterly

Easter 2012 is all planned.  4 days, 4 bottles of Jansz and 4 fine females.

What a girl wants.

Dancing Day

 After Christmas Day comes Dancing Day.  And so it was that on 26 December I met with a Wu Tao gang at the Adelaide Botanical Gardens and we danced and picnicked.

And then, after a few adventures involving cars,  Shanah, Rani and I drove along the Murray to Wentworth, dancing along the way.

And eating of course.  Here we are just out of Truro on the hill overlooking the Adelaide Plains.

Over the bridge at Blanchetown.

Past Waikerie.

On to Moorook.

Glad to be traveling eastwards.

Shanah tired but happy at River Bank.

All photos courtesy of Rani.

Christmas

Better late than never...

Let's start at the very beginning.  The Advent Calendar made by the Cox Atkins of Christies Beach - a delicate roof shaped concoction of origami and Lindt chocolate.  Yummo!

 Fresh vegies from the garden.

 

 Burnt pudding from the pressure cooker.

 The table set with Miyeon's beautiful gift.

 We just had ham, ufo squash, tomatoes and lettuce for lunch (plus burnt pud and Christmas Cheer) - a light lunch cos I was driving to Adelaide.

My gift to myself - Largs Bay.

Happy people and dogs.

Santa Curlwaa couldn't have done better.

a blog post for Ella

I think you'll enjoy this blog Ella - as will everybody of our ilk - knitted cats and dogs, some fabulous clothes and a Penny Lane doppleganger...  
For some reason I can't load the blog address on to my blog list so, in future, you'll have to get to the blog from the website - unless you favourite it, of course.

Hola!

You are supposed to be noticing the agapanthus in the pot, not how old Rosie is looking.  Ever since Spain, I have wanted to have blue agapanthus in pots.

Another odious comparison perhaps.

As is this.  The sole hollyhock to date.  I had zillions last year.

In other Wentworth news:

a crane mysteriously appeared on Darling Street, spent some time at the Crown Hotel and vanished,

an unusual blue feather at the foot of the stairs,

and Sis ponders why I'm so intrigued by a feather.

Wentworth

Went for a little stroll out the back on Sunday to check out the new riverboat.  Here she is

nestled among the reeds and named The Wentworth.  The boat is designed to be wheelchair accessible and so the deck is flush with the wharf.  Wonderful.  As is this.

Little difficult to see... but there is a white egret on the flat-topped bollard.  We have never seen so many species of waterbirds as we have this year.  Looking back towards the town via the driveway between the Royal Hotel and Motel

and a close up of the 4WD.

I guess the car and the clothes found some mud.  Worth celebrating after 9 years of drought.

Slow flying fox

The quick brown fox survived the greedy red kangaroo and landed last Friday - at least that's when I got him upon my return from Albury.  I'm not sure if its a vixen or reynard.  I've been doing a little fox research.  At first he was to be Cadno which apparently is South Welsh for fox.  But then the girl / boy thing worried me and I realised that Samhain is the perfect name.  It is the Celtic festival held on 31 October - links to Halloween which has always been important to me.  The end of the Celtic year and the eve of the New Year.  Suits me just fine.  Samhain had a home (lair?) in my bedroom but I keep finding him all over the place - depends who comes into the gallery and who Steve shows him off to.
For those recently joining this blog... this fox was made and painted by Georgia and was purchased from her Etsy shop.  Look at Georgia's blog Verbosity (click on purple word or see side of this blog) to check it out.