Phoebe and the world at home.

Its taken all week to sort of get straight here. We have SO many things. But things are starting to take shape and we already feel at home. The kids have been on good form, and pretty well behaved, playing in their own spaces either alone or together. Its been quite cathartic for all of us to get out the things that we've not seen for a year and a half. (They all went off a couple of months before we left the UK).

We decided to go for a little walk yesterday late arvo to have a look at a fallen tree that we can make out from the house, that Phoebe has been saying is a 'cave' - because the bottom end of it that is all rotten away and looks like one. The woodland is acutally pretty inpenetrable. Its obvious that no one ever really walks in there. Presumably its because of the wildlife, much of which is as you know, pretty wild. Here's a picture of our house from the side of the hill opposite....



... and here's the same scene (our house in the background) with a typical spider that spans the trees. As you walk, you are constantly breaking through these webs, which are invisible unless they have light behind them...



Going further up the hill, we came to this termite mound....



There is a LOT of wildlife here. One bird in particular wakes Daile up at sparrow's fart in the morning, and sounds like a tennament housewife screaming at her drunken husband..! It is absoulutely unbelievable. The bird itself is white and otherwise quite beautiful to behold. (Rather like myself)

Phoebe and I found this on the corner of the garage yesterday...



Anyway, whilst we were up on the hill, we found a track that leads back to civilisation and to a little park. The park is nested among trees and we saw the sun set from there.







Just before we went, Phoebe invited us all to tea! She'd been pottering in the kitchen for a while and we were all flat out making and stacking shelves. This is what she made....

... a 'stick bug'...



..a tree..



...a bunny...



...a tiger...



... a flower...



...and a snake! Good eh?



We had a lovely tea. She was well chuffed.

Earlier than that... I hung this picture up in the lounge. It's a picture of a life model that we used to use at Artem called Anna. The girls were offended by her nudity... so Phoebe and I made her something to cover her modesty....



Ha ha. I particularly like the little flower on the knickers!