From the river to the bay: December 2021

Sunday 19 December 2021

NEARLY CHRISTMAS

A WEEK OF HOUSESITTING coming up. a friend in geelong has asked me to mind her house, garden and chooks over christmas. How perfect - i'll drive down on tuesday, the first time in 7 months. The car is filling up with things to take down, mostly presents for Etta, i got a bit carried away!

DID A BIT OF BAKING the other day, shortbreads to try out my new embossing rolling pins. A bot disappointing, they rose a bit so the patterns pretty much disappeared. i'll have to try again with a different recipe

this young black faced cuckoo shrike made maximum used of the sprinklers yesterday, hanging from the branch and spreading its wings every time the spray came around :0)

AFTER THE VISITORS

I'VE JUST REALISED it's over two weeks since i looked at the blog. i bombed out after three lots of visitors in three weeks. It was lovely to have everyone up here and i just needed to lay low for a while afterwards. It makes me realise that the three surgeries i've had since May took their toll. I'm so glad i don't have any real commitments. I can just take my time around the house and catch up with myself.

a nice pic of uncle rene with little ao

nice to see sunny luke and etta out on a trip into melbourne and the ngv. I hope lockdowns don't recur with the new variant about

FUN TO DECORATE THE TREE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO

a couple of nice pics

of etta that sunny sent

after they got home

the white faced

heron has been

visiting a lot.

i think they're

breeding over

the river

AT LAST! René's gansey is finished and i'm very happy

with it. now to send it off in the post, how nerve wracking

I HAD CHRISTMAS DRINKS here on the riverbank last week, perfect weather and a relaxed time. The white-faced heron dropped in to sam and di's delight, it

has some significance

for them