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Home again after a lovely 6 days away - which included the Australia Day long w/e - visiting our eldest daughter & taking her boys home... We had a wonderful time with all the Grandies over the school holidays but they are all back at school again now... much to the relief of their mothers... ha ha.

We are attempting to come back to the normal route of life ourselves as it has been rather full on ... Gilly gets groomed today - she is so in need of it especially with all this hot weather we are having ... Hot Humid & Horrible ... but at least we are getting rain here & there & some good rain at that ...

Here is TC taking Gilly for a walk in the park while she was here with us all. All the kids loved to go to the park each arvo ...walking or riding their bikes...

In between all the comings & goings of kids I did get to do a bit of sewing/fabric collage so will have a bit of a reveal in the next while ... so keep tuned

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Where did that week go ... I had my girlfriend ring me last week to see if I had 'stole' her year - she wanted to know where it had gone ... I think we are all feeling a bit like that at the present... I've had a busy couple of weeks & to top things off my beloved camera - which I might add isn't all that old - has decided to die on me & after consulting with my local camera shop was advised it would be a very expensive exercise to fix or even see about fixing as it sounded like a motor within ... ohhh dear so I quickly bought myself a cheapie while there ... Of course the short of all of this is I now have to learn to use, yet, another camera ... I think it is a sad state of affairs that cameras are becoming like mobile phone a very expendable item in our society of throw-a-way items... My hubby was telling our daughter that we have been in our new home 6 years & we have had as many cameras - sadly he is about right as that is when I started using digitals...

My sewing machine has been getting a pretty good work-out of late too - I've taken photos but will upload them when I know how again ... ha ha
Now for something pretty I found on my morning walks ... we used to call these Fairy trees as our kids thought they looked like little fairies flying in & out of the leaves with the breeze. Well it turns out they are called Fairy Dusters from the family of the Calliandra species ... they are so delicate ...

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We have had the most glorious rain this week getting 30mls [well over an inch in the old scale] overnight - the garden so needed it, now I'm hopeful that the folks out west will get some too, as I know they are in dire straits...
I found this little guy while I was walking this week, poor thing must of been nearly hit by a car or something as he seemed to be OK just winded cause when I came back past he had gone - I hope the water I gave him helped & that our little Mr Kingfisher is doing OK now.
Thankful... for the wonderful rain we have had...

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Out walking this morning I found this lovely succulent garden, all well tended too, and kept within the confines of the patterned path. There were some little beauties there too that I would be pround to display in my garden. We visited with the Grandies this last w/e & the Granddaughter loves to do hair but I gotta say she does have some wild styles but mine was very conservative ...

Spring ...

Here we are Mon 1st September where ohhh where have the months gone ... I feel I've been in some sort of vacuum or something, here, but not here... been doing a few things in the creative line but blog surfing more than anything else but it's Spring so I need to get myself sorted and motivated - NO more PROCRASTINATING ... I've seen so many beautiful things while I've been surfing - my mind is full of great ideas. I'm not a sketching sortta person but have a couple of books that I use to write stuff o interest in plus a few sketches of lay-outs/plans whatever you want to call them cause I don't class myself as a person that can draw but I'm going to work on my sketching but in the long run I guess so long as I know what it represents that's all that matters but they say the more you do the better you get so that's ME...
Since Luc & I went to Adelaide back in May I have been doing a bit of walking each day [I was so sore walking in Adelaide by the time we came home I was starting to feel a bit better about it so decided it was time to make some changes ...] I've kept it up and enjoy my little walk each morning even Gilly is coming with me now and is very forlorn if left at home. So that's 15 weeks so does that mean I've formed a pattern that I will want to keep - I know it still need MY will-power...
I've noticed while walking that the local house fences still get graffiti even these days - I thought with shops & a railway station not far away they would concentrate on those. I gotta say I like some graffiti but what I'm seeing is certainly not Art...this sort of graffiti is just vandalism in my eyes, but, I'm not going to get into this debate what I did find on this fence was an interesting confession of love & admiration a young lady has for her man - there for one & all to see ...I think this girl could have a career in writing if she put her mind to it - she definitely knows how to express herself just a shame it has to be on someone elses fence...
I do enjoy looking at other peoples gardens as some of you will know I love my garden so I can get lots of ideas. My hairdresser has a wonderful 'whimsical' garden as she calls it & I just love it & you can see she gets so much pleasure from working in it & collecting her stuff for it ... go Deb.
I found these whirly gigs in a yard not far from me - they look like the gentleman garden might be the maker as well - so kool ....