Finally posting about the School Holidays (which finished two weeks ago!)

This was AWESOME - the image doesn't really do it justice - but the rock formation looked like a time warp - which is were I have been in the last two/three weeks since the end of the school holidays - it is a strange feeling - like you are SUPER busy - but don't actually get anything done.


I highly recommend that you get off the Calder on your next trip to Melbourne/Bendigo and check out the Organ Pipes National Park. You could meet this great little fella.




These shots are from a beautiful family day we spent at Kamarooka, hosted by Northern United Forestry Landcare Group - great inspiration for a new project I am working on with the Bendigo Sustainability Group and the Bendigo Field Naturalists - we are putting together a Bendigo Family Nature Club! Will post more and more about this as the project falls into place!



We are having a pikelet fad a the moment - it came about as we opened the pantry and found we had no plain flour for pancakes - but two packets of self raising flour! - perfect for fluffy pikelets. J and I are having an ongoing dispute over the "secret" ingredient!


We had a fabulous long weekend in Mornington with the Waters crew
This outfit was a spot of Great Uncle spoiling!

A special lunch with GreatNan, Aunty Nj and Cousin Q and cooked by the wonderful Grandma

These last shots are by my Mum from an outing she took the kids on - while I enjoyed being kid-less - they went first to see a play and then a play in the local park.



In between all the busy activity we had some quite play - Hj right into jigsaw puzzles at the moment.

A sleep over in a magical garden

This is the garden of a very special friend of mine - who despite of lack of contact since moving on from our uni lives - we are able to fall in and out of each others worlds quite easily. My children and myself just loved her home and garden - we had a fantastic sleep over and play.

Celebrating and creative activities happening around our home lately

We visited the place where the sky is everywhere

Where I grew up the sky was large and endless and I have an ongoing romantic longing to return there.

This week during the school holidays, thanks to the magic of facebook and the generosity of a farming family we visited a diary farm not far from the land were I grew up. It was lovely to reconnect with an old school friend and enjoy her family and farming achievements with her husband. They most certainly have a farm to be admired. Although in the following shots there aren't any cows (don't ask me why!) their cows are so gentle, quiet and happy milkers.

Bowls Green Rest Rooms

It is a little while back now but our little family went to a good friend's birthday party at a Bowling Green here in Bendigo. It was raining and unfortunately we didn't play bowls - and I didn't get any shots of anything much due to the weather and dragging kids out of puddles and mud.

However in the rest room here I got a trip back to memory lane and Nanna's world I guess.

- when I was little I did spend a lot of time on the bowls green and also the tennis courts in Dingee on hot Saturday afternoons.

Taking these shots and talking about the rooms with a friend, at the party, I also got a feel of what seems to be really trendy in the interior/exterior decorating world at the moment, and fashion and also visual arts - and that is to ham things up and make a statement clear and obvious and above and beyond the call of duty to a theme.

Techniques to do this include using clashes of colours or ideas particularly to make a statement clear.

Bowls Green Rest Rooms

It is a little while back now but our little family went to a good friend's birthday party at a Bowling Green here in Bendigo. It was raining and unfortunately we didn't play bowls - and I didn't get any shots of anything much due to the weather and dragging kids out of puddles and mud.

However in the rest room here I got a trip back to memory lane and Nanna's world I guess.

- when I was little I did spend a lot of time on the bowls green and also the tennis courts in Dingee on hot Saturday afternoons.

Taking these shots and talking about the rooms with a friend, at the party, I also got a feel of what seems to be really trendy in the interior/exterior decorating world at the moment, and fashion and also visual arts - and that is to ham things up and make a statement clear and obvious and above and beyond the call of duty to a theme.

Techniques to do this include using clashes of colours or ideas particularly to make a statement clear.

Pizza, tennis, a sleep over & a moutain

It has been a while between posts - I am battling at the moment with our provider for broadband and we cant do anything so I am being sneaky at work and using their broad band to get my blog hit. AAAHHHH



Above is my vegie patch - nearly everything you see there I grew from seed (thanks Diggers!)



Very happy about this as I am building confidence in gardening and maybe after all this time I do have a green thumb (or the ability to cultivate one!)



Last Saturday I took a nice long road trip to a gorgeous place called Dunkeld to see a art work in progress for Next Wave - it was a long trip but worth it - meet some great people and had a fun time and a yummy counter meal.

Below is a pic of Trevor and some friends - it was Trevor's show that we were checking out

This was our Friday night's tea - another famous pizza from J - KADEL dont eat it all in one go!

I left with some friends for Dunkeld around 2pmish - the boys playing tennis in our dry dusty back yard.

Pizza, tennis, a sleep over & a moutain

It has been a while between posts - I am battling at the moment with our provider for broadband and we cant do anything so I am being sneaky at work and using their broad band to get my blog hit. AAAHHHH



Above is my vegie patch - nearly everything you see there I grew from seed (thanks Diggers!)



Very happy about this as I am building confidence in gardening and maybe after all this time I do have a green thumb (or the ability to cultivate one!)



Last Saturday I took a nice long road trip to a gorgeous place called Dunkeld to see a art work in progress for Next Wave - it was a long trip but worth it - meet some great people and had a fun time and a yummy counter meal.

Below is a pic of Trevor and some friends - it was Trevor's show that we were checking out

This was our Friday night's tea - another famous pizza from J - KADEL dont eat it all in one go!

I left with some friends for Dunkeld around 2pmish - the boys playing tennis in our dry dusty back yard.