Christmas Day

Now Boxing day. Watching the start of the Sydney Hobart Yatch race. Yesterday was interesting. We had an early beach walk. I have been struggling with an infected spot in my groin which decided to finally burst. Not a terribly good day as I am also recovering from the effects of my booster shot. We did manage prawns and salad followed by raspberries, we don't eat much these days.I seem to sleep a lot. It was a shame to miss friend Ps 88th birthday on the 24th but we just couldn't manage it. That booster really hit us. I hope all my blog friends had a lovely Christmas. This wretched plague is really making things difficult for us all. We did a late drive over to Parsons Beach yesterday. The southerly winds have made for a lovely view of the beach. A bit cool but much better than very hot. Sorry I can't manage any more.

Angels wings and cards

My angels finally had their wings attached so they are now finished. I also started making some cards using some papers I had painted cutting out trees, easy and fun. I am feeling very tired at the moment,not sure why, we had quite a long beach walk this morning which was lovely but more tiring than I expected. Trying to tie up presents and work out what more I need. We have had lovely cool weather but it is going to warm up over the week end. I am afraid I don't cope very well with the heat anymore.

It has been a while

And on top of that John had reset the Google password and not told me. So many frustrations. I am once more making Christmas cakes. I have finished off the little knitted rabbit, he is now all dressed. Fb has had a few painted gnomes as a theme and here is the one I did and I am also making, or rather embroidering more birds for my file fowl book. A trip over to Waitpinga beach, late Sunday afternoon. I love those lines of waves. A visit from the nurse from the local doctors surgery to make sure we old people are coping. I think we are but it is good to be checked up on. I am heartily sick of this recurring covid drama. We are booked in for a booster in a couple of weeks. No Melbourne family again for Christmas I would imagine with all the uncertainty over border closures. I am slowly getting presents together but I am so much slower than usual. I will try to blog a bit more.

Around and about

I seem to get worse at posting, a lovely few days wandering. We went across to Normanville on Wednesday and to Pt Elliot today. Days seem to be going fast and I think Christmas will be here before I know it. At least I have more or less organised the sea food for Christmas day. I am watching Love Actually again and John has gone off in disgust! I am finishing off the latest rabbit. I have nearly finished sewing up the latest knitted animal. I will start cooking cakes next week. Busy, busy.

A cold few days

George has spent a lot of time snoozing on his chair. We tend to add more clothes, it is almost summer and 12 to 16 degrees has been the norm. Really windy with rough seas, walks have been intermittent with John finding the wind difficult on his face. They say it will be 6 weeks before it is fully repaired. I have been having a lovely time gathering flowers from the garden,, the pink rose is a carpet rose that has lots of flowers and bits of sage of many colours plus other flowers make up my posy. They are in a mug I love that we made in one of our visits to Yasuka village in Japan how long ago was that? At least 20 years ago. I am finding that now I am 82 I Am so much slower, annoying but part of the ageing process I suppose. I am a bit like George! Still hand sewing, I have nearly finished my birds and have started knitting another rabbit, I thought I had stopped knitting with summer approaching but it is so cold I got the needles out again. I have been a bit hit and miss with my blogging, I tend to put more on Facebook these days but feel my blog is important too. So many people I have met through it over the years. Enough of my waffle off to make a curry for dinner.

This and that

HeaOspitallth wise life is boring lyrics predictable.L hospitalget pital spitals over one thing and another rears it's ugly head. Enough! I have finally sewn up my badgers clothes. Once on a time it was easy. Not now. I think this David Austin rose is Abraham Darby but I could be wrong. This is the first year it has looked happy, I hate to think what the soil is like here but I am happy with this lovely flower I think that aso annoying but we seem to have had so much wind lately.Upt the moment I am as usual suffering from a bad case of hay fever. This coming week is going tobe a bit fraught, John has a colonoscopy on Monday, which means odd food and then as he says taking poison to get rid of it at least that is in the local h only a few hours but on Thursday he has to at the QEH by 7 am and in for them to do something about nasal pOlyps and hopefully, all going well out late the next morning. Thankfully our youngest daughter has taken on all of that as I couldn't manage it these days. Sorry I am having problems with this posr so I will stop.

Cold and damp

So I don't have to water the garden. I do enjoy rain. the first photo is taken from my chair in the sitting room and the view I see. I love it. We walked the cliffs this morning between showers and then went out to our youngest sons to fill the car with petrol, all looking damp, silage in and where it hasn't been cut so lush and green. No photos as by then it was really pouring down. I have finished Brock, the badger, still to do his clothes and rather sad that with my deteriorating eye sight and arthritic hands I didn't do a terribly good job of knitting him. I do love doing the patterns that Julie of Little cotton rabbits does. Very well written. Now to find a jumper pattern to do.

This morning

Walking the beach this morning I found these shells. I don't collect a lot anymore and for most of the winter there hasn't been much of interest but I liked these. It was a lovely morning but cold and wet is for cast, not sure if we will get it as what is for cast and what we get can be two different things. The garden would like a drink though. I cut the first roses yesterday, just in case we do get rain. They smell gorgeous. Chicago Peace. I am being very slow and my hands don't much like me but slowly I doing some stitching. I need to sew up and stuff my badger too but at the moment am having fun with my pods from Dijanne Cevaals class.

A drive over to Parsons Beach and Waitpinga

I have felt a bit off today. Very tired after yesterday's trip to town. I have done some sewing but a drive up the coast sounded nice. Lovely to see the surf beaches. Not much wind either which is great, it has been such a windy year. Love where I live.

A wander around Nangawooka.

Just a few photos I took yesterday at our local flora reserve. Overcast and cool and not as many flowers out as we had hoped but still a nice wander around. Quite a few new plantings and the Lori keeps were having a high old time overhead in the big gum trees. Today I am tired,an early start to Adelaide for haircuts and to see old friend P and then my sister before going down to the sea, catching nearly every stop light as we went. So home and a short nap. On Monday week I will be another year older, perhaps that is why I feel more and more tired!

Around the garden

Spring has sprung and my front garden is looking fine. Considering it was only lawn and gravel and some nondescript bits when we started renting now it is much more cheerful.

Horrid day

What a day, over 30 degrees and high winds. My sinus are killing me, hay fever I suspect. A fire over near Parawa, and this is the second of September, I hope I survive the summer when spring is like this. I picked the bunch of nasturtium to cheer me up. Yesterday I drove over to see the foals at Sarah, three beautiful section a fillies, 2 out of mares I bred. So proud of the legacy that Sarah now has.

This and that

I am not sure if I have used these photos or not. We have had a blast of winter lately and my body doesn't appreciate it. I seem to be continously tired. I am doing two on line classes, one that opens every month which I would be enjoying, yes I do, but at the moment it is about making clothes, from old clothes and since we left the farm and had a big clean out I don't have much to play with. The second is an 8 week, take at your own pace one that I am enjoying but am being very slow about it. The photo of some collage and drawing is from that. I am not terribly good at collage, never seem to get my head around it but I quite enjoyed doing this. We have walked but the tides have not been very cooperative. Went to see a whale, too far off to photograph and quite a long tiring walk for me. The garden thinks spring is not far off, a few sunny days with very cold mornings but there are flowering prunus in the streets near us, daffodils are nearly over and I treated myself to a small flowered yellow cymbidium orchid at the local orchid show. I have applied to another on line course which I hope will keep me sane, sewing pods with Dianne Cevaal. What would I do without on line courses at the moment. This wretched virus is not going away and although we are not in lock down in this state, those around us are and I have the uneasy feeling I is just waiting to hit us again. At least we are fully vaccinated and don't live in a large city. It makes me feel uneasy.