Monday 25 October 2010

Eddie

Sarah and Joe had their second baby last week, and he's called Eddie. Born about 6am about 11 hours after the waters broke... so pretty quick really! He was 9lb9oz and he looks in good health.





Makes me tired just looking at these! Ha ha. Well done you guys! Looking forward to meeting him early next year...

Monday 11 October 2010

Phoebe is 7!

What up? So this week we had the Feeb's birthday (last Friday) and here she is in receipt of a lovely wrap/scarf thingy from Gannie and Gramps.



...a card from Tild, and a homemade bracelet from Gannie that she loves.



Here's some buns, the start of the haul that was to be the party... nice aren't they! Daile and Molly's work.







At the weekend, we were revisited by the neighbours, and you'd be forgiven for thinking that between them the girls had worked the place over. This would have been Matilda's idea for sure! The gaggle were nowhere to be seen when I came across this... I think they'd gone for swim in their clothes at Tracy's pool...!



I usually retreat to my cave...which in my case is the garage. Here's an easel I made this weekend for my new bigger canvas aspirations:





...and Molly is turning into a forger! This is a copy of a drawing that I did when I was about 22 or 23... In many ways this is a very hard task, so quite impressive that it is so close eh!



... and lastly, I wanted to show you this... Gecko, that was hiding between the screen and the glass in the study window...



eying up this lass, which you can see from the mesh is about a couple of inches across! It's not often you get a look at what goes on underneath is it?



Weather's been dodgy. Springbrook, (near the aerial walkway a couple of blogs back) got 275mm of rain last night! My garage had a river running through it...!

Saturday 2 October 2010

M'Boy's gone!

Josh returned to the UK on Thosdee...and we're really missing him! Here he is eating one of the pancakes that the girls made him the day he left.



Phoebe has had an allergic reaction to something... here she is all blotchy..



...and here they are the day before, with the French tash's as is their custom when they cook...



Josh next to a painting I did of him...



all of the family (cept me) at the airport...











Today, I took the Josh pic down to the local art shop... cos I've been meaning to put a bit of art in their for a while... and they told me they'd like to do it. So in a way, Josh is still here... :-)



O'Reillys

A couple of weeks ago, we went on a trip to a place called O'Reilly's rain forest walk, which is about an hour or so from where we live..





There are lots of birds of all kinds, and quite a lot of these.. parakeets. This one was being fed chips by this man, and took them in its foot, feeding itself bites every now an then;



This is the suspended walkway through the trees....



... and this is Matilda going up to a look out... two ladders up.










and from up there... you can see this sort of vista. Not a particularly good day from a sun point of view, but warm ish and it didn't' actually rain.



This another part of the walkway, which is about a mile or so long...







Aboriginal art on a tree...