M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S

so far...

Steve is enjoying his ukelele and caramel wafer from Normanville.
Thank you for sending cards and presents.
Sorry I've been too slack this year to reciprocate.

A Childish Christmas in Wools

Thank you Georgia http://earthgypsies.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/oh-christmas-tree.html


Perfect, I thought, for using up all those bubbly corks that The Body Shop no longer recycles.
I had no green wool so decided on a blue fir.

Not quite as I had envisaged.  Like someone in an oversize beanie.
Maybe reverse the cork?

hmmm a baobaob

ok on an ordinary cork, of which I have 1.

Steve suggested making a red(ish) Father Christmas hat.
Then I made a slightly wider one for a bubbly cork.

Getting there.
But talking of spiffy hats, did you see these on the The Women's Room blog?

What a fabulous idea!
And a warning - this is the first Christmasy thing I've done.
Don't hold your breath for cards and presents.

should've included

people.

The spontaneous 'people shots' tend to get taken on my phone - and I forget.
Here's Steve on his birthday.

Here's Mum lunching in our Lady Bay unit.

The NZ sauvignon blanc fitted perfectly, CK. Had a lengthy siesta afterwards while Mum read her book and enjoyed the view.

And this truck I spotted on CK Beagle's street on my way home to Wentworth.
It has a seemingly unlikely 'Baby On Board' sign in the back window.

Lady Bay jaunt

Last week Mum and I spent a cuppla days at The Links Resort at Lady Bay.

The view from our room looking southish.  You can see part of the rather dry golf course, the spreading housing development, a vineyard and the beautiful hills that always remind Mum and me of Wales.

Straightahead view.

Northish view featuring the units the Gang of Four graced on their first Easter Trip.

Lady Bay proper with trademark Norfolk Pines.

Shearing shed en route to Second Valley.
The Leafy Sea Dragon is the icon for this area.

The Yule Log Willowa made and which we demolished on our lightning coffee-stop on the way home.

The Art of Being 65

 

seems mostly to involve Centrelink forms.

Two cities and Village People

I went to Melbourne a cuppla weeks ago for work.  I had some spare time and sat at South Bank in the sunshine.  And I remembered I have a very nice unit in Bellerive.  And Bellerive has a lovely marina.  Smaller yachts and buildings.  How lucky I am.

I also saw this restaurant decorated with bicycles... presumably you can hire them.  Bit hard to read in this photo but  the pink bikes have Venus on them and the orange ones, Mars.

Last weekend I went to Adelaide for Mum's birthday.

I love North Terrace - it is very civil and civic as envisioned by Colonel Light.
Mum and I met Helly, Tamasin and Willowa at the museum to see an art exhibition (there really is no escaping them).  David's work 'Flat-screen Icon' is a Finalist in the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize 2013 and will be going to Canberra.  It is a very beautiful exhibition and included a fish sculpted out of salt taken from the Murray River.

Then we had a picnic at Mum's

 with soulful renditions of Village People songs including Go West.
A very happy birthday.

Meanwhile back in Wentworth

I've just updated Blogblodwyn.  You can see why I need respite...

Not only that, but they're noisy too:

On Friday they had beer as the Soup of the Day.