Welcome to Another Weekend Coffee Share!
How about I heave the dog off my lap and go and turn on the kettle? At this stage of the wee hours, I’ll be having a decaf tea just before heading to bed, but perhaps your body clock is more sensible and you’re just waking up and could use a caffeine boost.
How was your week? I hope it’s been good.
Happy Mother’s Day, which is often much easier said than done! I don’t think we gave Mother’s Day much thought when we were growing up. Mum was around. So what? I even had the audacity to ask her why there was a Mother’s Day and not a Children’s Day. She was very quick to tell me that “every day is children’s day”. These days, I’m on the mothers’ side of the equation, and agree with her. The kids can pull their finger’s out for one day and make a bit of effort. Well, at least I hope so. They’re both broke atm so as usual, I bought my own presents: a red necklace I found while we were away as well as Julie Goodwin’s memoir: “Your Time Starts Now”.
As you may be aware, Julie was Australia’s first Masterchef and I have a special connection with her as she came to my house to cook a meal with me following a post here on Beyond the Flow. I was beyond excited and you can click here to check it out: Julie Goodwin comes to our house . UNfortunately, I won’t be seeing my mother tomorrow as our son has a very persistent, endless cough, which isn’t going away.
I am still adjusting to being back home after being away housesitting on the Gold Coast for four weeks with just my husband Geoff and myself while our young adult “kids” stayed home. We had a wonderful time away and it was pure bliss not having to be a responsible adult 24/7 even though we were touching base and not drama free.
The highlight of last week, was going to an art exhibition opening for artist Claire Tozer at the Bloomfield Fine Art Gallery in Terrigal, about a half-hour drive away. I came across the gallery a few months ago when our daughter was working at the pizza and tapas restaurant a few doors up and I was on taxi duty. I’ve been doing a bit of painting lately, and as I mentioned last week, working on a crochet piece. None of this is part of my usual, but I have intermittent spurts of painting and some of my abstract efforts have been good and are hanging up at home. I hadn’t done crochet before and was only making chains which I was sewing onto a round seagrass mat to make a mandala I’ve called “Passion & Peace”. Not sure why I’ve put so much time and effort into it, but I do like it even if it isn’t some grand masterpiece.
I’ve been doing a fair bit of writing and getting back into my blog to write up about our trip. I think I’ve run out of room for more photos now, and will need to revisit my plan. I haven’t been doing much blogging over the last two years, but I’m wanting to save what’s there at the very least and I could well be interested in picking it up again especially now we’re heading into Winter and the weather has been wet and dreary for weeks.
By the way, here are a few links to my travel posts:
In other news, I’m back seeing the Exercise Physiologist and will be increasing from two to three sessions this week. As you may recall, I have an auto-immune disease which has caused fibrosis in my lungs. Consequently, my lung volume has shrunk and I can get quite short of breath. I went through quite a bad spot last year, but had some treatments and went to rehab and had what I’d describe as a vast improvement for me, even if it wasn’t such a big change on my lung function tests. As much as I enjoy my EP sessions, I do get shortness of breath, which can be a bit confronting, as I feel “fine” most of the time.
Are you reading any good books at the moment? I have a few irons in the fire, but put the rest aside this week to read “The Glass House” by husband and wife duo Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion. You might recall Graeme wrote the best selling Rosie Project which turned into the three book Rosie Series. I’ve found it very hard to put it down and haven’t touched it tonight so I don’t stay up to 4.00am like last night, which unfortunately is already looming due to my blogging efforts overnight. I just haven’t been tired and I hate not getting something finished and then there have been a few technical difficulties as usual.
Anyway, on that note, I’d better scoot.
This has been another contribution to the Weekend Coffee Share hosted by Natalie the Explorer.
Best wishes,
Rowena