A lovely review here 🙂 Less than a week until Seadog hits the shops. Yay!
Month: April 2013
Graduate Union Family Day
Williamstown
Oliv-eee-aaa!

The last couple of years had produced very poor crops and it wasn’t until this year that there was an opportunity to help. On Tuesday, we checked out the fruit.

On Friday, it was pickin’ time. We picked all we could reach from the ground and from a standard ladder. Buckets full.

Then came the corker. All that we’d picked – probably three full 10 litre buckets full, were for me. She refused to keep any. She already had some pickling and there were plenty more in the higher reaches that her sons would pick for her. So my, I’d like to help you, became her gift to me. Hmm. Not quite the plan. Tricksy people these neighbours!
After coffee and divine syrup cake with walnuts, I lugged my load home. (oh okay, she helped me with that too). I delved into the deep, dark spidery recesses of our shed for the pickling and preserving jars that I knew I’d hidden in there more than a decade ago. And after I’d cleaned, boiled and filled them, there were still two full buckets and this large bottle full. Since then I’ve shared a few with friends, but am hoping to share a few more. Any takers?
Guinea Pig Town
The weather was just about perfect. Actually, scratch that. It WAS perfect, a glorious mild still autumn day.
In the train on the way home I read Guinea Pig town, entranced by poems about dogs, cows,cheetahs, narwhals and many many more. After a bit of a poem drought, it was lovely to read some of Lorraine’s work (which I love) and it inspired me to begin three new poems of my own.
Airey’s Inlet and Seadog’s first outing

What a lovely display! This is the front window of Great Escape Books in Airey’s Inlet, where Seadog experienced a ‘coastal launch’. ‘Home’ to organiser extraordinaire Nicole, and lovely book people Sue and Jo, who made my visit so much fun.