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Tweet(photos courtesy of my dear Abby) Ooooooh! It is so chilly here today. Strong, gusty winds roaring up the bay from the Antarctic and squally rain. It’s been building up to this all week – my first week of nursing placement. Each morning, I slide out of bed at 4.50am, quickly wriggle into my uniform, [...]
TweetDown the gully, around the bend, across the red red dirt and back onto the road … past more strawberry farms, more vineyards, dear little shops and there we were by the sea. Thankfully it was a wee bit warmer than the blustery, chilly ridgetop of Pitchingga. Just :-) Good thing there was plenty of [...]
TweetThat’s the best collective noun I could come up with … a delight of alpacas. Oh my! We are all on such a high after a truly splendid day at Pitchingga Ridge Alpaca Farm with the lovely Jean and Dave Daddo. We packed a picnic, collected Sammy – a take-along friend for Abby, and drove [...]
Tweet The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, build signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of the soul in shadowy times like these, to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both, are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light [...]
Tweet Hmm … vegies could seem to be a slightly odd thing with which to embellish a nightgown :-) But these ones are very sweet – from Ikea actually. The fabric came on a roll – I think there was around 4 metres? And the pattern is printed in a panel style. Probably Ikea weren’t [...]
Tweet It’s finished! A collaboration of time, thought, creativity and perseverance. Such an absolute delight to work with my girlie. I do so adore her. I made a last second dash to the fabric store on Tuesday afternoon to ensure we had red corduroy, white velvet and a red zip with which to turn this [...]
Tweet I could say “.. well almost” but that wouldn’t really be true. There has indeed been some full blown foot stamping and screaming today. I finished my razor lace cardie … blocked it … tried it on … and all my worst fears were confirmed. This cardie has been SUCH a pain to knit. [...]
Tweet Oh it is so very relaxing. And utterly addictive. The key to spinned out bliss .. prepare a good many rolags in advance and then just set that wheel a-flying whilst you draw and twist a seemingly never ending supply of beautiful fleece. I bought this fleece – a hand dyed Corriedale – from [...]
Tweeta busy day, filled with fabric and family. Washing went out and came in and went out and came in several times – dratted Melbourne weather. The kitchen was tidied and mussied up again. Over and over :-) Now, it is Sunday evening – one of my favourite moments in the week. We’re all snuggled [...]
TweetA special day. Our anniversary. We’ve been together for 20 years this year. Oh my, that sounds so grown up. It must be. He is the bookshop boy and I am the girl with the standing order for The Economist. He set my heart aflutter with his spectacles and beautiful cheekbones. I was a history [...]
Tweet I cannot go away without packing all the little projects that currently have my attention – knitting, embroidery, sewing, patchwork … Last week in Merimbula was no exception – I took the orange cardie, the pink socks (of which all that had been completed was the cast-on), a skirt (thrifted, pure wool, box pleated [...]
TweetNever, in my wildest dreams, did I think I would be turning pixelated drawings of chibi manga characters into needlepoint patterns! But here I am, finding the picture on google images so as to better interpret Mr. Pixelated Poland (from the manga Hetalia) here on my screen. Whilst Julian and Abby sit in the next [...]
