Beautiful day…

January 22, 2013

Wake up and get straight into swimsuit. Sky is pale blue, maybe smoke haze from Victoria.

Down to the beach to favourite pozzie in front of pine trees. Smells resinous in the warmth.

In water by 10AM. Glorious. Walk through waist deep shallows in boat channel, moving out of way of incomers and outgoers. Then just dive in and swim a few lengths between the marker poles. Float on back like a star. Hair drifting out, rocking with the odd tiny wave, can hear the odd tic-tic-tic sound of ‘under the sea’.

Time out…

December 1, 2012

***This was written two days ago, before the Big Hot Hit!***

Bit of writer’s block so down to the water with the kayak at 8.30AM.

A deserted beach.

Glittering: my fave time.

The vessel.

Debating which direction to paddle.

Sunday, perfect Sunday…

November 11, 2012

House – my fave place in the world, and the sky is blue.

Porch’s warm and the perfect place for a dry white before dins.

The garden survived the torrential ‘Tornado’ rains of Friday…

Snowball Tree.

The Red Chair – a needle in a haystack…

October 23, 2012

I’ve known Jane Nicholas for a number of years since I met her when I enrolled in a ‘how to’ class for stumpwork at our local embroidery shop, A Stitch In Time. In the course of conversation, she found out that I was a book and paper-artist and our friendship developed on a number of levels because we have similar backgrounds and we both deal in forms of communication and creative expression. I felt the ringing of those kindred spirit bells, – a sure sign there is a good friendship in the offing.

A Stitch in Time…

May 6, 2012

A stitch in time saves nine they say.

A week ago, I attended a masterclass of stumpwork embroidery in a shop called A Stitch In Time.

In fact I saved no stitches at all. I had hundreds of stitches to accomplish before the piece I was working on would be finished.

A Grand Day Out…

April 1, 2012

Last year was somewhat of a milestone birthday and as it passed, I made a mini-Bucket List (sort of child’s beach-bucket size) of all the things I want to do between now and whenever.

It involved things like a helicopter ride to my favourite place. A light aircraft ride to a world recognized wilderness area. Visits to all the parts of this absolutely beautiful state that I have never seen because I’ve been too busy visiting overseas places, or too busy looking after family, or too busy living in cities away from Tasmania, or too busy ‘being’ on the coast. Scuba-diving lessons. (Not sure about this one as I am claustrophobic, which come to think of it may affect the helicopter and the light aircraft, but on the plus side I love swimming underwater.) Climb to the top of Mount Maria and so on…

Literary leanings… talking with Ann Swinfen

June 15, 2011

I first ‘met’ Ann Swinfen on a messageboard, part of YouWriteOn.com to which we both belong. On reading various well thought out comment she made, I went to Amazon to purchase her newly released The Testament of Mariam… a beautiful read, almost shocking in its revelatory subject matter, but subtly handled nevertheless. Ann is highly regarded as a writer, her titles published in the past by Random House. She has also written a definitive text called ‘In Defence of Fantasy’, published by Routledge and which as a fantasy writer, I felt enunciated the power and place of the modern fantasy novel.

JK Rowling…

June 7, 2011

I was out to coffee with a dear friend yesterday and she asked me who were the three people I most desired to meet. It was an easy choice for me. Oprah Winfrey because of her social conscience. The Dalai Lama because of his wisdom and humour. And JK Rowling because she singlehandedly reconfigured the reading world for the youth of today.

Change…

March 22, 2011

Sometimes just a change is all one needs ro refresh and gird one’s loins for the next of life’s little challenges.

We’ve just had a three month change. OH (recently departed from a corporate life) and I decided we would live away from our permanent home for three months. This is in lieu of the overseas holidays that others take annually by way of a change.

The sheep’s back…

March 10, 2011

Historically, Australia was said to have derived its burgeoning economy from the sheep’s back. Our history is marked by the introduction of Saxon merino sheep to the colonies in 1804. Farming wool became iconic and superfine Australian wool became world-renowned, beloved everywhere for its softness and purity.

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