weekend

trip to ikea (hooray for $29 quilt cover)
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plenty of organising and tidying
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garage sale perusing
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market shopping
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cooking: whole baked snapper with stephanie alexander's north african ginger marinade recipe and a lemon tart
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camberwell markets: 2 x chrysanthemums and a yellow plaid capelet all for $12!

knitting

(deliciously warm slipper socks and my italian merino wool kerchief)

getting a few projects in for myself before whapping out requests for others (if only knitting went as speedily as the word 'whapping' implies......alas......)

inverloch and bass coast

felt the need to feel the sand between our toes.....winter skies didn't deter us!

darwin escape

escaped the onset of melbourne's weather with a quick 4 day trip to darwin. first time visit for me. amazed at how fierce and beautiful the environment is and how, with a 15 minute ride in a tinny you can feel a million miles away amongst the mangroves.

have to say though - we both welcomed the crisp late night air of melbourne when we returned....

(it's always good to get home no matter how great being away is).

on the subject of flowers.....

darwin -botanical gardens, wogait beach

couldn't help myself - my deda (grandfather) would be proud of me taking photos of all these flowers.....

and my nan, nonna and omama would have goo'd and gaa'd at these beauties!

(having had most of my gardening experience in grey-sky-ed melbourne i can only imagine having that much sunshine to play with).

solomn arrival

a blossom from a cannon ball tree, darwin botanical gardens

i had intended on making a grand re-entrance into blogland (for the keenly awaiting mum and nina)....

can't add anything of what i've been doing before saying goodbye to our cousin Laura who passed away on Wednesday 13th May 2009.

Rest In Peace.

very busy!

busy looking for a new place to live. oh the horrors. i hate moving. but i guess i'm looking forward to a change!

amused ourselves last friday night with a rum(becue). very hot night so the gang met in the park behind our place for sausages, dark'n'stormies and moustached fun!