The finishers turned up again on Wednesday, appearing suddenly and noisily in a scissor lift at the front of our building. They were doing some detailing on the corners and balconies of the new building. I could have stepped on to the balcony and asked them what they were doing, but I chose not to.
The neighbour below me on the first floor was finding it difficult. The noise is worse closer to the ground and I gather her windows are not reflective, so she also has the discomfort of workers being able to see inside.
It will be very good to see it finished.
It's been a bit of a celebratory week. Thursday was Brigid's birthday. Unfortunately someone in Niamh's class at school was diagnosed with Covid, and she became a school contact, so generously stayed home while insisting the rest of us continue to the Ky Chow for a celebratory dinner. Brigid, I think, had a good day. She is an extraordinary young woman.
Friday took me to a new restaurant at Henley Beach for my much delayed birthday lunch with friends.
It's quite a while since I've been to Henley Beach in the day time. It is looking very clean and spruce. The restaurant is upstairs in the building on the right. I've marked a blue cross roughly where we sat on the balcony.
I rather liked the outlook - the geometric lines as well as the sea and the open square. I really enjoyed the company, the air, my yellow fin whiting (a form of smelt whiting found off the south coast of SA) and the geometry, as well as the open sea and sky of this view.
Beach lunches are dear to my heart, as are these friends.
Saturday was a JEMS day and Niamh was cleared to go after several RATS. It looked like an active and engaged session. Niamh came home with a linen she had painted ready to embroider. Interesting.
I finished the second of my Sentinelle cushions. I learnt so much from this one - about colour and design as well as about imagery and culture. I've written about the creation of it in my embroidery blog. The imagery thinking will take me a bit longer.
The doves have visited a few times this week. On Sunday morning one did the puffed up feathers, flattening on to the warm paving thing.
It is way out of breeding season and the partner's reaction appeared to be of the 'are you OK?' variety. It looks like a bird version of a hot pack on an injury.
On Sunday I spent a couple of hours creating and ordering some bookmarks from photographs to use as gift cards. I haven't done this before and it took me a while to find a company I was happy with and to get the hang of their software. I created three different ones. One used a sunset photo, one a frangipani and one birds. It will be interesting to see how they turn out.
There have been a few spectacular sunsets this week.
I've managed to read a couple of books, read a chapter for my brother, catch up with a couple of friends by phone and progress my Goddess presentation For most of the week I avoided spending time trying to capture the bats,
but caved in on Monday evening, after the family had gone home and I was on the balcony as the light faded. As I finalise this on Tuesday evening, I can see them flying past in the gloaming. There were storms and heavy rain in Sydney today but it's been exceptionally clear and calm here in Adelaide and a pleasant 28C. February is often very hot in Adelaide - frequently over 35C. It is forecast to be 31-32C for most of this week.
I'm grateful for the mildness - and the bats will be too.
