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The morning light showed the tiny succulent flower to good advantage. I doubt I'd have put the pink and orange together in threads but it is very effective.

At the same time, cloud covered the Hills. It had lifted by mid-morning.

That was about the time the young adolescent dove arrived, closely followed by Turtle, doing his following routine again, this time accompanied by a repeated two note call. He effectively drove the young bird away - again without any violence, but the message was clear.

Turtle then ate the seed until Myrtle arrived to collect him- or that's how it seemed. As soon as she arrived they flew off together.



I went shopping at Frewville. I had four items on my list and came home with 3 supermarket shopping bags full. I do like that supermarket - probably a good reason to shop elsewhere!

There were only five of us for dinner. Anthony is in Whyalla for work and Fionn had football training. Niamh and Veronica had school photos taken today. There was much discussion about the photographer's insistence that all the girls sit in the front row in all the photos - 'for symmetry'. None of us could work out what this meant. As the tallest girl in her class, Niamh thought height would have been a better organiser. I agree.
I set the scanning aside today and cleared the table. I'll return to it in tomorrow or Wednesday.












I used my time to progress the Caterina project. I got two more quarters done. It's slow work, but is working quite well at the moment. A bit less than one quarter to go - then it's back to running stitch on the inner layer.

Post 193 sitnstitch

It was a fine Spring day in Adelaide today. A bit cool to begin with, but 24C by the afternoon.

Turtle appreciated it and visited several times for seed.

I spent the morning preparing Lemon Chicken for tomorrow. I cook the chicken whole in the liquid so like to allow it to stand  and cool overnight so I can skim the fat off the liquid and remove the bones from the chicken.


I picked Jennifer up at 12.30 for our Sit'nStitch at Grange. Susan had made a stunning cheese and onion pie for our lunch.  Both Jennifer and Susan are working on knitted blankets at the moment. I was rectifying the centre markings I had made last night on the Serenity mat. I discovered this morning several places where I had stitched over one or three fabric threads instead of two. I wasn't using a magnifier and working at night on such a loose weave fabric was a mistake. It took me a couple of goes to get it right.


Traffic was low when I got home and the Square bathed in light.

I checked out my front balcony plants.
The begonia cutting I've been nursing for months now has 8 sturdy leaves,



















and the geranium cutting I bought at the Guild Christmas market has turned into a strong plant with flowers forming.

To get these parrot shots I photographed  the screen of my television during a documentary called Australia Remastered: Parrot Paradise. I was watching it while embroidering before dinner.

The top one is a female King Parrot and the lower ones are Palm cockatoos. The one on the right is a male. They are a pair, together for up to 50 years.

If you get a chance the documentary is worth seeing.

I worked on the Serenity project for the best part of two hours and this was my progress. I found it quite difficult. The pattern is repeated all the way around so hopefully it will become imprinted on my brain and I won't have to check the pattern every stitch. The loose fabric threads are hard to count. They move.

I think this is going to take quite a while. I am going to balance it with knitting.







Tomorrow is forecast to be 31C - then 17C on Tuesday.


 Dust is forecast for tomorrow evening but tonight's sunset was clear and calm.