From the river to the bay: April 2016

Thursday, 28 April 2016

AIRBNB

#@!!!*?>>-ing AIRBNB trying to set up my page and it's one headache after another after thinking it was a done deal. pics and text in place, site looks good online but something's wrong somewhere. if you try to book i can't reply! i'll end up getting bad reviews if i can't fix it and i've been a day and a half trying. nowhere can i find help, just their silly pat questions and answers online, no one-on-one chatline, nothing. GRRRRR there - i've had my rant

Wednesday, 27 April 2016

EARLY DAY

I HAD AN 8 O'CLOCK YOGA APPOINTMENT so thought i'd leave extra early and have a long walk along the river. didn't think did i? i drove into the rising sun all the way, at times it's absolutely impossible to see the road so what do you do? get out and take photos of course :0)

GOT TO YOGA only to find my teacher was in melbourne - i'd been told before my trip away but but it hadn't registered, doh. so i had a lovely time sitting in the sun at stefano's accidentally meeting up with lots of different people. a nice morning.

beautiful under the vines in warm autumnal sun - with robert from art vault

Tuesday, 26 April 2016

TUESDAY BARGAIN

A BEAUTIFUL OLD 30's wedding dress from Aroundagain, our wonderful tip shop. $5!! An elderly man behind the counter priced it for me, a sweetie.
'might need a bit of bleaching' he said
:0)

Monday, 25 April 2016

LITTLE MARA

LATEST PIC - what a little sweetie

OP SHOP BUYS

COUNTRY OP SHOPS are the best! i picked up lots of goodies along the way :0)

these can go in the new room - unbreakable :0)

THE DRIVE HOME

I PICKED SUNNY UP at ballan station and we drove to bendigo via some good op shops. perfect sunny weather, blue skies and magnificent autumn colours everywhere :0)

We had lunch at

the Dispensary, a favorite

spot worthy of a

capital D, scallops, oysters,

yummy white wine

then a walk through

lovely rosalind park

to the gallery to see

young mazza.

this was a great
op shop in ballan,
a winding shady
mozaiced garden
and an old house.
room after room
of stuff :0)

MARILYN EXHIBITION
The giant statue on the roundabout was a surprise, i thought it would be really tacky but somehow it works, it's in a great spot opposite the young ladies around the fountain opposite and it's surprisingly lifelike, despite the tiny people constantly posing between her legs :0)

it's fun and people are loving it. it's great to see how all the shops and the town are behind this exhibition, there are marilyn exhibits in windows all over town, some good, some funny

The exhibition is great, so many iconic dresses from all marilyn's big films, the gold lame on the poster, dresses from Gentlemen prefer Blondes (downloaded it last night for another look). her favorite halter neck dresses from Jax department store, THE dress from Some Like it Hot.
It had a solid opaque skintone base, but you can't tell me it was there when the film was shot, i think it was only partially there for the film and probably was added later for conservation purposes.

Her personal clothes were most interesting, fairly subdued non-revealing dresses, jackets. some underwear 'thought to be worn by marilyn' I thought that was a bit cheeky.

We walked quite a lot and after the morning on the road we finished the day with a martini on the verandah of the Shamrock Hotel looking across to the town hall and

its lovely clock town. Bendigo is a beautiful city.

flowers in rosalind park conservatory

ANZAC DAY was in
full preparation, thousands of crocheted and knitted poppies on wide bands hanging across the war memorial building, very effective and moving

SUNDAY drove home with a side visit to boort to see the sculptures of john piccoli, the spannerman. amazing work
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-14/the-spanner-man-one-of-the-world's-most-unusual-artists/7080726

sculpture by the lake