Millie

We have just come home from watching Millie's schools end of year matinee performance.
Millie is in grade 1 and was a roman soldier.
This was taken outside afterwards.
She was so proud of herself, and it was a great mix of nativity plays and song, lovely to have a small one doing all this again.

Walking and stitching

 We have managed some walks in between a trip to Adelaide for my hair cut that had to be put off from last week due to my cold, still not feeling 100% but I have stuff to do!
John has hardly been home as there are so many end of year wind ups for the boards and committees he is on.
Very wet and cold this morning,  We had 19 mm of rain over night so it is nice and wet underfoot.
I am trying to get some washing dry and tidy up messes where I have just dropped things when I was feeling off.
I am making the 3rd of 6 Christmas cakes today, and then a funeral to go to. A sad but inevitable one.
There have been a lot of ducks around in the bay over the last few weeks, one tends to think of them as being fresh water birds here but obviously they are not and there is something they are after around the reefs.
I read a lot last week but I did manage to finish off two decorations for some ones tree, I think I prefer making hearts to stars.
The strange sandy object is a sharks egg, I think one of the wobbegongs, not a large nasty shark. This was the second one on the beach and to my delight John found me a cowrie, there are not many on this beach walk.
I also found a whelk, not many of those are washed up either but as this one had a still live hermit crab inside we threw it back out to where we hoped it would have more luck.
The beach is in constant process of change at the moment, always interesting and of course it does look different between low and high tide times.
The second ashes match (cricket) between UK and Australia starts this morning in Adelaide, there is a lot of talk about the new stands and oval revamp, from the outside it still looks like a building site but apparently it looks ok from within the grounds. I hope so, although they seem to have lost the glorious view of the cathederal at one end and to me looks much like any other cricket/football ground.
Off to boil my cake.

Not an inspiring week

 On Monday my GP told me all my ailments were because I was old. The week went down hill from there with one bright spot at the end of it.
Tuesday John was off to meetings and I managed a walk on my own and made a Christmas Angel, not that the doll I have stitched looks much like one.
Wednesday the cold I had been hatching came into full force and for the next few days I sneezed, my nose ran and I felt sorry for myself.
A few silly bits of stitch on Thursday.
Friday I managed to get the weekly shop done and that was about all.
Saturday I felt marginally better and John and I had a short walk on a very cold and windy beach, I came home and read for the rest of the day!
Sunday we had an 80th birthday to go to, another coming up in 2 weeks.
This was the husband of one of the Coffin Bay fishing crew, well he is part of the fishing crew, we read and walk and talk. The Captain is 87, !st mate is now 80 and John is the youngest at almost 76!
We had a wonderful lunch in their new home and admired the garden.
I made the 1st mate the green fish and said it wasnt to be used as a lure, I hope he remembers!

I have a cold

I dont very often get colds and this one is awful.
I havent done a lot, read a book, done some easy sewing,and this morning went in to shop which nearly killed me!
So a couple of photos of the garden, and just to say, I am still alive, just, but not enjoying a streaming nose and sneezing.
Just as well I cant give it to any one over the computer.
Still feeding the dogs and getting the hens in and have seen from a distance the two new foals born today and yesterday.
I hope they dont get whisked away before I get photos, my daughter is too efficient and off they go to new paddocks which are too far away for me to get to unless some one drives me.
Off to do battle with the rooster!

Hot and still

 John had a morning into the afternoon meeting so I went in to get the mail and paper and also a walk along the beach, so different to the last walk along here.
It started to warm up so after I had done my half hour or so, and chatted to some nice people on the beach with a corgi dog I came home with the temperature rising all the way home, but it was pleasant on the beach.
I needed to make this little doll for my hairdresser as we wont see her before Christmas and I think she is going home to South Africa.
Any way here is Elle who is another fairly new angel but is a little surprised with the trumpet she was given as she always thought Angels played harps.
I hope she is liked.
So I have been fairly busy even though the house has got rather hot, the chooks will be put away late tonight but Oscar is complaining about not being fed so I had better go and do that.

My week in stitch

Quite a lot of flowers this week, mostly it was cool and damp.
Monday I whirled around doing a lot of odds and ends and not getting any where really.
Tuesday we tried to tie up the clematis, time will tell how clever we were but it is flowering fantastically.
Wednesday we went for a cold walk along the beach, a lot of wind and it was cold!
Thursday I went up to spend some time with my neice in Adelaide. I havent driven up to Adelaide much on my own lately and it was tiring.
Friday I shopped and put some seedlings up in to some pots and also planted a few things in the garden.
Saturday we walked again and it was a much better day.
Sunday was again spent in the garden, not all of it because I did some sewing, it was also a time to enjoy the flowers.

Morning walk at Pt Elliot

 My life has been in a bit of turmoil lately and John has not been feeling well but we did finally go over to Pt Elliot for a walk, cold, windy and the odd shower of rain.
It is schoolies week end down here, the caravan park over there was full and a few despondent looking girls with not enough clothes were wandering. The boys had their music cranked up high and were gathered together well rugged up!
We havent been over there for a while and although it tests my eyes and my knee it was a great walk.
The rough weather and high tides have changed the beaches, the purple sand was new.
There were four surfies out on the point and a dead shark on the beach!( I now have some smelly teeth that my dear husband offered to get for me, he knows me too well.) There are no photos of the shark, not sure what sort it was, had a thresher type of tail and having teeth is not a gummy shark!
Home I took photos of the orange flowers on the tree grevillea (g robusta), usually I forget and these are not the best as it is such a grey day.
I managed to drive to Adelaide on Thursday to catch up with my neice and give her some photos I have of my sister, it was lovely to catch up with her and share a few stories.
A long drive home, I havent been out driving on my own much since I had my knee done, I must get out more.
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