Sea Silk
Finished and steam blocked to wear to the birthday lunch to launch the Festival of birthday celebrations. Sea Silk amythest, one skein, forest canopy shawl. I think its about the fourth one I have knitted, easy, intuitive and pretty. Its a total win/win/win!
Flowers
My baby brother sent me a bunch of flowers! Of course it made me cry, mostly because nestled in the bunch were a few "nana" flowers (Gerbras). Every year nana would lift the gerbras and split them, so that next year there would be more. These days the colours available are quite exotic, but back then they were a summery, burnt orange, yellow, pale pink and a washy red. They smelt funny but she loved them, and now in retrospect it seems like a ritual (although I'm sure she did not even do it every year, it just seems that way so far in the foggy past).
easter show - the story begins .....
On
Ravelry there is a grand plot to fill the Toy Cabinet at the Sydney Royal Easter Show with outrageous toys. I hope also to add in a small way to the mayhem. Watch this space for upcoming plot revelations as they occur.
Bloody Quentin
It is a really long story, and really most of the time he is so not worth the breath it takes to talk about
him, but currently
he is making Kat's life a misery. Do click on the link and enjoy what
he says about himself. It says it all really.
November and the countdown begins
So to explain the pictures, Oscar is walking along minding his own business, when out of nowhere, Mr Jinx jumps him. They wrestle, Oscar swats at him and they both end up bathing one another! Brotherly love, it's just like kids really.
It is the beginning of November. Today was a perfect spring day in Sydney, albeit a little warm, but we worked in the garden (alright Lizzie worked, I swanned about giving advice), Geffo rode in the Sydney to the Gong bike ride to raise funds for MS research, and the cats wrestled. Yes people we have photos, not great, but its a new camera and I am just playing at the moment.
Labels: cats, spring
Day 31 (c'est finis)
Today was a meet up day for the Rubi and Lana knitting group. I dutifully left home later than previously and trained up to Gordon and still arrived early, but less early than last time.
I was winding a ball of Anne (Schaffer) which was driving me batty. The whole skein was snarled in an epic fashion, and in the end I left it to finish when I got home and had another set of hands and a couple of chair backs to wrangle it. All up it took approximately three hours to wind. In contrast the second skein took about 20 minutes, and during this time I was also cooking dinner.
Anyhow October is drifting to a close. Today we enjoyed a really summery day in Sydney with brilliant sunshine and gentle sea breezes. Temperatures were a balmy 30degrees c.
I will play with the new camera and post photos again, and all will be good and right with the world.
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Day 30 (stealing time)
My oldest son has just nipped in and stolen the computer from me. I am going to Rubi and Lana's knitting group tomorrow, and hopefully will have time on the train to pick up the stitches in the sea silk shawl. (fingers crossed). Because its purple its just too hard to do at night after a long day of work, and my eyes are too tired, so its Ben's neverending socks again tonight.
The boss is doing examining for the College of Psychiatrists this weekend, so spare a thought for all those she has to judge. She is a brilliant and exacting task master, but they will be better for her critique.
cheers, happy weekend all.
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Day 29 (still no internet * sigh*)
It's been a good day. Even though I had to go by train to work I had fun because I had Kat to talk to, and while we were powering along between Birrong and Regents Park, there by the grassy verge on the side of the track were bunnies!!!!! Not gray/feral rabbits, but lovely black fuzzy bunnies. There were four, in two groups of two just sitting there eating the rubbishy grass growing along the tracks. I know they are a pest, and probably escaped from someone's yard and in the future will just breed and become feral, but right now they are cute, and they made me smile. No mean feat on a Thursday morning!
Some lawyers messed up the first appointment of the day, and so after sitting around for 90 minutes we were ready for some light entertainment. Doc sees clients for the Motor Accident Authority as an independent expert. Today's offerring was a doozy! She thinks either he's stark raving mad (which coming from a psych is a serious description) or malingering, either way as soon as he was gone in the lift she truly fell about laughing. She was pouring coffee and giggling uncontrollably! From then on the day got better. We both love laughing at life! (ps he was found to a 0% impairment, so no hard feeling buddy, but you're okay)
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