Almost finished.

Still not quite finished and to my horror she keeps falling over. Hmm will have to think about that. Just a few little finishing touches. She didn't want a bird in a nest in her hair, opted for a very odd hat. Still she is almost there, may need a stick. Terrible day today, warm and blow g a gale this morning g, with me having a bad reaction to pollen and feeling awful. An early start to the hay fever season. Now thank goodness it is raining g a bit so the air is fresher and a lot cooler Have an idea for a different mouse, perhaps a rat. We will see.

Doll, rocks and flowers

My little Miss is slowly getting some clothes on. Very slowly. We walked along the base of the Bluff this morning, very grey then, now its warmed up and sunny. I love the pink mallow although the purists around here think it is a weed. Felt like taking photos of rocks this morning. We didnt walk all the way to the little jetty, must have been some fish as lots of vehicles there.Home and some washing on the line, the weather has been rather odd down here, overcast and cold, low cloud, almost fog, now this lovely afternoon. We had over 3mm overnight too. Some of my prunus is coming into flower and looking lovely. I just wish my back didnt say, no gardening.

Today

This lovely little quilt arrived today, I am part of Kate North's Another Little Quilt swap, and this one is by Pam Andrews in the Uk. I also had an email to say that the one I sent had arrived. Always a worry that they will arrive safely. Such a lovely idea and as the quilts are generally quite small they are manageable for non quilters like me. I have quite a lovely collection. One never knows exactly what one is going to get. This morning we went over to the King's beach car park and walked towards Depp's beach, I love going to Kings Beach but find these days the track a bit too rough for my shaky legs. We hadnt gone along the path we took for a long time and that path is now greatly improved. There was I think a whale far out to sea, I dont know what else it could have been, but rather far for my eyes to make it out clearly. So lovely to have sun, finally I have been out potting up some lettuce seedlings. Now onto that naked body I have to dress.

First a naked hare, now a naked doll.

I am catching up on a few UFO's, this little doll from a pattern by the wonderful Jill Maas, is now put together. Now to dress her, funnily enough I don't really like the dressing part, so she may be naked for a while. It was supposed to be a nice mostly sunny day, so I did some washing, it has drizzled and been cold ever since I started the washing.Had plans for the afternoon, they may be curtailed and the other thing on my list may get done, like mending, a shirt, (I'm going all Boro) and some socks. I quite like darning. The old bread maker has made a decent loaf of bread thank goodness after the disasters of yesterday in the "new" bread m maker.

This morning, walking the beach

I have had a horrid back ache and am not sleeping, up and in my chair in the sitting room. A real pain. We did manage to go into the market this morning and have a walk along the beach, a higher tide and I nearly fell flat on my face tripping over some sea weed, luckily I managed to save myself. The tide was coming in at the mouth of the Inman River, and there were 6 hooded plover on the beach, if you enlarge the photo you may see one near the sea gulls. They were pretty fast and my small camera does a good job but isnt really good enough for small birds in the distance. I met a lovely black pug puppy too this morning at the market. In my days of breeding pugs I was the only one in this state breeding blacks, always my favorites. I was asked did I still have any pugs and I said no, I love them but they were always more difficult to breed than other breeds of dogs. Heavens though they have got expensive.

Various

I have finished the easy knit slippers for John, now to see if he wears them. The surf was up at Petrel's Cove this morning, as well as surfers there was a young seal also surfing but I couldnt get a photo as he was too far away. The odd dumper in the midst of decent surfable waves. We came home the back way and the wattle is looking more spectacular. From a gorgeous sunny morning we are now in the midst of a change rolling in, windy and grey and threatening. I had to take John over to collect the ute, it has a stick stuck in the condenser, drivable they said but needs repairs and we wont know when the part will be in. The new bread maker isnt making bread the way it should either, send it back they say, registered post, will cost more than to buy a new one. Life wasnt meant to be easy.

Goolwa this morning

We are right back to winter this morning, rain almost continuously since mid morning. I had to go over to see a friend in Goolwa and John had a meeting in town so we went our seperate ways. I was sad to hear our boys didnt get their gold in the 3 day event at the Olympics but a bronze for the teams was still a good effort and the bit of the showjumping final phase I watched last night, it was a tricky course. I remember Sam Griffiths who got 4th in the individual as a young boy on a welsh pony, infact one of our section b stallions was bred by his mother. Any way a quick stop in a break in the rain for this shot of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge and across to Hindmarsh Island. A nice chat and talk about the class she is hosting for Sandy Webster in April. I will be going, sounds like a good one. I am now glad I am home by the fire. Trying to find an idea I had for a cloth doll but of course I cant find it. I will just have to try and make it up. Too cold out here to stay much longer.