Post 606 Comings, Goings and Staying.

This week’s big outing was lunch at Carrick Hill with 4 friends. Carrick Hill is a 1930s mansion, set in 100 acres of gardens and bush land, just 8km from the CBD, operating as a museum and gallery. The current exhibition is on The Rose in Art. It also holds a fine collection of William Morris. Since I was last there, a large and freestanding restaurant has been added. That’s where we met. I shared a pizza from the wood oven. We caught up for two hours, with no pressure to leave. It was busy, and a little noisy.

I got there an hour early intending to see the exhibition, but chose rather to admire the grounds and browse the shop.

On the way home I stopped at the Highbury’s Shopping centre, which was on my way, to buy zips for my Monday task, and made a stupid move.

The Needle Nook is part of a small shopping strip with parking behind. For some reason the carpark is bounded on three sides by a metal fence with solid rails at the top and bottom. The only entrance or exit is via the driveway to the side road.   On the other side of the metal fence there is a footpath which takes you to the shops via a back entrance. It isn’t the first time I’ve tried to duck through the rails of the fence. This time I fell, landing heavily on my knee - the one that does not have a replacement and I have been protecting. I managed to extricate myself, limp out the car entrance, around to the shop's street entrance and buy the zips. Hot packs at home have helped and the knee is slowly recovering. My calves are bruised.  I hope the diagram helps. The carpark is bigger than I’ve drawn. It would hold 10-12 cars. The arrow shows car entry. A poor design (and a worse drawing!).

In the end my knee did not prevent me accompanying Katherine to the Opera meets Organ concert at the Cathedral on Saturday afternoon. It was an interesting concept, enhanced by the newly- installed sound system. It was a good length, giving me a couple of hours at home to contemplate my long weekend dress making task before heading to Kilkenny for dinner and the crosswords.

 

I've also booked tickets for the Messiah in December, and for the ASO matinee series at Elder Hall next year.. It's an easy outing, and I have really enjoyed the two I've been to this year.

Tessuti fabrics is doing a rerun of their face-to-face fabric. I still have enough to make one bag and hesitated for several days before ordering another 1.5 metres. This is only the second time it’s been offered,  and may not come again.

I’m playing with the notion of using the piece I already have to embroider the names of the 13 female Australian Anglican bishops plus that of the newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. It seems time to mark progress. That’s, of course, when I’ve finished the cardigan and the blue birds tapestry!

On Wednesday, Trent, the B&O installer and electrician arrived to check out my setup and prepare a quote. We hit it off and ended up discussing kidney disease and treatments at length. It’s been a long time since I had such a discussion which was once an integral part of my life. It felt good.

The weather warmed up on Saturday and Sunday, but is now back to 16-18C days with rain forecast. It was the Labour Day long weekend, and the beginning of daylight saving 

I spent most of Sunday, and all of Monday remaking school uniforms into statement clothes for an end-of-school celebration- a tradition at the girls' school. The girls chose their designs, unpicked, cut, tried on, adjusted, made suggestions. These are the styles they chose, not their finished dresses. I'm pleased to be able to help, and enjoyed working with the girls. They know what they want and are quick to help.  The event is over two weeks away. When it is over, I might have photos of the actual garments. 

 

 I was up a bit early this morning to retrieve and clean a ladder from my storage unit, so the cleaner could clean the airconditioning vent in my kitchen. They also vaccuumed up a lot of threads and helped me move my rugs back to where they were before I reorganised for the TV. My rearrangement led to too many tripable wrinkles. I got rid of dried flowers that were about to fall and planted a couple of plants from pots into the wall garden. It was lovely when the sun came out this afternoon.  

A supermoon rounded off the week. Tonight it is closest to Earth

which is where I am progressing the Bluebirds tapestry.