This that and the other

 I am trying to get together stuff for my 4 day workshop starting to morrow with Roz, I know I have far too much but I hve no idea exactly what we are doing so if I dont use it, well I dont and I am driving backwards and forwards so I hope I have some idea of what I will need or not need tomorrow.
today another quick collage in between wondering if I want this or that or whatever!
I finished another little jewelled piece last night and will probably start on another. I love fitting a tiny bit of this and that together.
We walked this morning and this is not what it looked like! Quite blustery and lots of white caps but I forgot my camera.
How could I? I never do so this is the same walk but last week, I thought the clouds were rather nice.
Looking towards Granite Island and Seal rock.
We saw a dead penguin this morning on the beach too.
Thank you to every one who has left a comment over the last few days, my knee is not brilliant and I am rubbing stuff on it and it seems to help my walking for a short time. I am determined to keep on walking but I am not sure what is happening under the skin!
I see I have made 70 followers on this blog, I think in a week or so I will have to think about a give away, but not this week I will be too busy.
Thank you to all who read my ramblings!

Gaby's 21st party

Not the best photos, my camera was playing up but the best I could find.
Celina, Mason Gaby and Tab about to do the cake and I think in the middle of speeches.
It was a lovely night with a lamb on the spit and lots of salad, a beautiful cake and Celina made a pavlova to die for.
Not a late night which was just as well as those of us who are rather older (!!) needed our rest.
I am so proud of Gaby, she has come through a lot and is doing very well.
Loved the 2nd photo of her and Celina having a laugh.

Walking over at Pt Elliot

 We havent walked over here for ages but as it wasnt too hot and I wanted to go over to Goolwa to check out where my class was we stopped and walked. Dozens of swallows were around and these were sitting on the fence.
Then a couple of shots of sky and sea and rocks and vegetation.
I love views like these.
I did a quick fun collage, you have probably guessed I am going through a gardening magazine and having fun.
I wish my shed was like this.
We are going out tonight to my grand daughters 21st, this is Gaby, Masons mother and what a great mother and grand daughter she is. This party she is organising herself, but at her mothers and step fathers place.
It should be fun.

Our 54th wedding anniversary

 Goodness we are getting old, and didnt we look so young then!
We have been out to lunch at what was Whalers Inn and now is Eat, a beautiful lunch, a lovely view and a fantastic day.
He has got a bit fatter and the hair is thinning but not bad for 75!
My best friend.
He is off to a meeting tonight so I will have a quiet dinner, not that I need much, we had a seafood platter between us, and I had scallops a bottle of fizz and J had a sea food salad and we did very naughtily have dessert, mine was an affogarto with frangelico, my favorite.
I think looking back that at 19 and 21 we had no idea what lay ahead, or that we would get to these many years together.
My daily little collage, all I can manage today.

Golden morning

 i wasnt going to blog today but these yellow crocosma were glowing With the early morning light through them this morning, I know some people think they are weeds but I love this one.
Max and I were out early this morning before it got too hot and one of the workmen was organising hay for the cows in the house paddock, and somehow Max got into the photo too with a smell that he found rather interesting.
I am still on my 10 minute collage in the morning, another from an old gardening book on a back grund of stamps on some watercolour paper.
I am never sure what I am going to do or what I will say on them but it does make me feel tthat at least I have done something arty today.

A bit of a messy day

I did this collage a few minutes ago, I love doing quick ones and this was using some backgrounds I had done ages ago using both home made stamps and some stencils. Just had to have that hen.
Then a photo of the pot garden by the back door, my tomato has so far given me 2 large ones and the small one has given us about 15 or so. Love it when things like that happen but I am having a few problems keeping the pea chicks out.
We had a long walk on the beach this morning, early before the sun got too hot, which it is now.
A lovely walk but my knee didnt like it much.
/so I have been fiddling around doing a bit of this and that and re reading A daughter of Time by Josephine Tey since the news broke about Richard111 bones being identified.
A much maligned man I am afraid. Politics and succession make nasty bedfellows.

A few days away

 This was what it was like when we stopped for a late lunch near Warnambool on Thursday, we then went to look at ponies in the rain! It was sheeting down, just as well we had rubber boots and wet weather gear. Not a day for photos.
We headed over to spend the night in Colac and were up bright and early to look at more ponies, shetlands this time. I found this wonderful shed on one of the properties and the next photo was taken from another one looking at the rain across the hills in the distance.
We visited a few more studs and spent the night with friends who had welsh ponies and this was taken looking over their back paddocks towards the neighbouring dairy farm.
Great to catch up with them.
It was a very long trip home, arriving at about 6 pm but we had spent the morning looking at more ponies and some how I was stung by something through a long sleeved shirt and it is now driving me mad. Very swollen when I got home but a bit of antihistemine has helped. No idea what it was but I felt wings when I put my hand around to see what was making me feel uncomfortable.
I havent done a lot today I was feeling so tired.
I did manage to make another small collage this morning but using some magazines makes the copying of some of the paper go funny.
I also seem to only have 3 pea chicks left, I suppose a fox got one and now the rest will go. Such a shame as they are very sweet, although eating my seedlings.