And I think it's really lame that a pescetarian can make uncomfortable remarks about eating roast turkey at xmas lunch one day and then going to Japan and eating whale another. Shame on you.

Tristan and jasper, both such a blessing to me that i feel so sorry for those wanting children and not having them for whatever reason. To never know what it feels like to have a young one in your life like that, the way they grow and love before your very eyes day in day out, the love that they give and the shining personality they project. Jasper is already nearly 10. it's almost time to say farewell to his childhood and Tristans' baby hood has just gone. How i already miss that.

Throwing stuff out takes time, and energy. It's hard not to divert and sit and think about how I got this or that and whether I should indeed say good bye. It's all about removing old habits and ghosts I guess. It's the starting a fresh.. again. But this time for keeps. i have plans upon plans and I go to bed dreaming about them.

I have been so unwell of late. Bali belly then food poisoning and during the hottest days. 45 degrees is not a nice place to be sick in.

This Sat is the Glitch good bye party. Everyone seems sadder about it than us. It all happens at once for us. We don't do anything by halves. Once glitch goes i shall also say good bye to this blog. Perhaps i might enter into a new blog. Not sure but I may just disappear for a while.

The wedding was a treat, very much like the Darwin parties when we were young and beautiful. I think I knew about 70% of the people there, though some I avoided and others I tried to avoid ha ha. It was really good to see those i have not seen in a age. There was a complete program that went for a week( brunch at mushroom beach, women/mens business, the wedding, treasure hunt, masquerade ball, benefit gig..) so it was like burningman only smaller and with everyone we knew, almost.



I had mixed feelings when Tim and Eamon sang and played Cheeky Cupid, especially when it was a song written for and sung at mine and Grants wedding 11 years ago..

what was really cool was when we all lit lantens and watch them drift off into the stars. It was magical. It really was. I hope someone managed to get some pics of that.


It's been a long time, and there are some pretty buried stuff that Tida managed to get out of me as we were lunching by the pool in our Villa. So me and Lari had a good laugh as Tida listened attentively and Pete tried to be nonchalant.

Some of the little ones got sick and I am so glad that we didn't bring ours..

Yes I'm very brown.




Dream beach

While we were clearing out the shed in prep for the great move, I came across some wonderful old slides from when Marcus was little with his family. There were about 100 of them, all well protected and with some gold shots. I selected 21 to be put on disk and then put them onto a diary I made on line and gave it to Jen on Tuesday at dinner with the whole clan.

It was a fun night at http://www.3stationpier.com/restaurant over looking the water and the weather was so warm I wore a see through white cotton dress and bright black and white knickers.

The diary made it's way round the table causing much merriment as each picture was seen. I took care to have recent pics of the grand kids and the grown up kids too. Jen gave us a bag of freshly picked cherries from the tree we had given them a few years ago for xmas. It had yielded over 100 cherries this year. So we drank to Emma's birth and hung out and chatted and bantered and we stumbled home on the tram.

The Bali wedding is so close now. There will be hundreds of people there and I'm doing the flowers with my friend Emma. Grant and Dhugal are mcing. I remember nude 2000 ten years ago. At least I won't be pregnant this time. Marcus wants to do a doco. It will be interesting to see all the old faces from Darwin again. Everyone knew everyone and there was some connection with someone or other. It was rather incestuous actually. I wonder if there will be any awkardness with any one..I'm sure there will be.

So bec and Stu were over last night and we ate a good dinner and made merry with the wine and she told me about the latest goss and we talked about disfunctional families and Stu was in his element. It's so great to see him and Marcus so close and candid. It makes us laugh to hear Stuart tell funny work stories while we played Catan as the children slept. I think we'll be friends for a long time.

And their going to help us move.

Taking up dancing again. I remember the thrill of the stage and the wirl of skirts. Should be fun.

Up late last night finishing of a present for the mother in law. This too will make her cry :)

Off to the city soon to meet Marcus for lunch and business like things we have to get through.

Xmas is so close now and then the Bali wedding and then yippee we move into our new home. It's like a dream come true. I see chickens, and a kitchen garden and a pizza/ tandoori oven. I see great dinner parties, and children dancing around in the canopied yard.

Yesterday we went and measured the perimter of the house and the owners were so very kind and friendly. We didn't get a good look at the place before we bought it as we wrote it off as too grand a house for our budget so didn't really know what was growing in the garden. I had planned to grow a cherry tree amongst other fruit tree's I had in mind cherries being the priority. It was such a blessing to see that there were already 2 decent sized tree's growing at the back fence along with chestnuts, plums, figs and lemons. There are nectorines and prickly pair that hangs over from the neighbours yard also and a perfect hidden area for the chickens. Not to mention the raised large veggi patch. I don't think we could be much happier in our choice of real estate.