I’m back

We had a lovely few days away, it was really relaxing and I enjoyed the chance to just unwind. We ended up coming home a little earlier than anticipated, as the best laid plans of mice and men…
Saturday morning we drove to Beaverlac camping ground at Cedarberg – it was a really nice drive through [...]

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A short holiday

Just a quick post to say that I’ll be off-line for a while as we are going camping on the West Coast to see the wildflowers and succulents.
Hope all of you have a good week. There’ll be lots of pictures of the trip when I get back.

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Thank you

Firstly, I want to say thank you very much to all of you who stopped by to leave such lovely messages of love and support yesterday. It meant a lot to me.
A few weeks ago I blogged about the baby shower I attended. I have a confession to make. I lied at the baby shower. [...]

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The news…

Yesterday I got the news that I have been expecting for the last 3 weeks, but hoping would never arrive. My beautiful friend Sarona died just after midnight yesterday morning. She was 34.
Right to the end her concern was for her family and friends. A few weeks ago we all got an email saying that [...]

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A new project

This was my view from the car window on Friday afternoon as I came home from shopping
Spectacular isn’t it? The mountains are constantly changing, I can’t get enough of them.
I began a new quilt this weekend. I had some 1/4 square trianges left over from the last quilt so I pieced them into this:
I think [...]

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The mystery men

Everyday as we travel to work we drive behind what we have come to call the mystery men. This is a group of about 25 men, they stand in the back of a flatbed truck (quite a common way of transporting people here), and are dressed in red overalls and what looks like riot gear, [...]

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Some advice needed

I finished this little pink jersey last night, it only needs the buttons.
This is the first garment I started knitting when we moved, and it brought great comfort to me. But that is a story for another day… I had intended this as another garment for the hospital, but it’s not very good and just [...]

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There’s mud on my hands

We are having a beautiful spring day – there is no sign of the cold front that the weather bureau has been predicting. Gorgeous Man and I went out to the garden at the baby sanctuary again today. This time no students came, but the organiser of the project was there and he brought seedlings [...]

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Music and choirs

I’m currently going to choir rehearsal three times a week. Twice a week is my regular choir, and the third is a large choir that comes together every year to present a Christmas concert – somewhere in the local area (haven’t got all the details on that yet).
It is made up of several existing choirs [...]

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I love to knit. I love the process of it, the feel of the yarn moving through my fingers, watching some thing substantial being created out of yarn and needles. I love the rhythm of knitting. I especially love knitting with variegated or textured yarn and watching the colours take shape. There is one thing [...]

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