and now for something completely different....

ahh progress...yesterday was none too hot about 33C so i got a lotta diggin done...cleared the space as best i could..who put those pipes there!! it looks small here (about 1 meter x 700mm x 75mm) and dug a couple of post holes for the pergola to go over, the lemon tree is going to have to share some sky space with a beam going right through the centre.. she'll be right!! ended up concreting last night as its heating up towards the weekend and that would be just nuts to hope for no cracks...

anyhoo pics of the unveiling tonight hopefully, that is a bit of a hot spot in the corner and hence the need for shade and dont ask why its taken me 3 years to get done...after this there will be a spot of fence reno and some bamboo screens to go up too should be lovely and a section for mozaic me thinks would be nice.. well back to making some pots today and awaiting the work rush of next week!!

awwww lovely!!....

i happened to be at the end of my driveway the other day and heard him coming on his scooter, nothing else sounds like the posties scooter…! so i waited and asked when he arrived do you have anything for me??… have you been good??? he replied…..

well turns out i have...secret santa just arrived.....

awwww lovely!!....

thankyou margaret brampton what a lovely parcel and spoilt again!! a super mug with hunting scenes i think that or MB has a fox in her back garden pinching the chooks,.. and a stunning lil bowl with feather deco and the respective names of the birds around the rim..just too sweet mmm what to christen them with i'll ponder that for the rest of today that has turned out very nice and not sweltering at all, ahhh just lovely all round!!

breakin out the plackie...

hey its 'summer time and the weather is fine you can stretch right up and touch the sky'......


and warming up time it is.. end of this week we'll hit 40C again so i'm thinking i'll not make anything that needs apendages this week they just crack and everything is on a speedy drying cycle... i'll get the rest of these guys trimmed and compressed tomorrow and then onto clearing the pool filter space and concreting a slab, the joint that goes into the filter keeps leaking and as it's on pavers only it needs securing more and hopefully that will fix the movement issue...well why not it will only be 36C thursday and i reckon it will take most of tomorrow to clear the filter and shore up the slab and inset some mesh!!

what fun! where's a handy bloke when ya need one??

ahh and my trusty trolley all plackied up!

happy b'day rose!!..

and a big happy birthday rosa!!! we celebrated yesterday in roses massive studio space which she shares with husband michael and sorry mike your lovely wood working machinery makes great bar tables... it make look like 'mobile mum' (she's sitting on one of those wheely walkers)...had had enough at this point but she was just waiting for rose to cut her cake...with lots of cheering around don't touch the bottom make a wish and blow out the candles before they melt all over the cake....we all loved your speedy speech and romper room recognition of all your buds and family that came out to celebrate...! her lovely girls are in the pics assisting the mega cake cutting..

have a nice relaxing day today and see ya soon for mold making day, i do wish i'd taken a shot of lil sumo man that rose is going to make a mold of he's fascinating , oh well another day for that one...happy birdies!!

happy new bang!!...

happy new year everybody...i took a drive down to glenelg beach last night to visit my friends franci & theo thanks so much it was a lovely time and not too blowie after the wind died down..it was a stinker yesterday 42C and then the change came in but it didnt last to long and turned out to be a lovely evening, listening to more 'live' music that we all know the words to, there's a lil debate about ac/dc song 'it's a long way to the top' as to whether the lyrics should be sausage roll or chiko roll though!! and just as the fireworks went off the lifeguards did a noodie run into the sea with more cheers than the mayor of holdfast shores got for his new years speach....you can just see the lifeguards hut the lil yellow thing bottom left of the beach shot...

and below my reminder pic of where i left my car...it was a wee hike as parking is very short down there... anyhoo hope you all have some super plans for this year and i hope we continue to meet online and in the 'real world' for now there's secret santa who seems to be holding on tightly to the pressies this year.... cheers ang..