In a quaint little deli on a busy street,
I found vegemite!
I’d been missing it you see. Just a convenient spread that isn’t chocolate or jam to smear on a sandwich.
But for this price …
I can wait for someone I love to send me a care package 😉
Local Groups
In the interests of getting to know people Himself and I headed to the local knit night. Himself isn’t a knitter, but it was handy having him there to walk with when I walked down the wrong canal at first and got lost. This wasn’t all bad though, as I put it to you that what we found was a new breed of pukeko! A blue chicken that isn’t blue!
Every time I walk outside I am struck again by how beautiful this city and it’s canals are.
And how old it is too.
Going to knit night though afforded us a new view of them, all lit up at night.
They just get more beautiful.
For now though, let’s leave the canals, and I’ll show you the projects I’ve finished since I got here!
First was this pair of socks for Himself which I began a year ago. (Yes, a year ago. No, I’m not sure where my mojo went) I loved this yarn from Dragonfly Fibres. The colourway was like working old spun metal as it cascaded from gray through green and into subtle burnished colours.
And my travel knitting project, the one I thought I’d never finish, and was afraid I’d hate a foot into it, as posted here … Behold the wonderous rainbow scarf!!!
I love it so much! Now I just need a hat to go with it!!! *grins*
Knit night was a wonderful group of people. All very friendly and welcoming! I’ll be going again next week. For the future though I’ll need to take something a little less brain intensive, as holding a conversation with people you don’t know, and following a lace chart, just doesn’t happen!
Shopping
I have been checking out some of the local shops, as I am want to do, and discovering that I could spend an awful lot of money here, and need a residence ten times what we’re looking at living in!
We shall begin with de negen straatjes, the nine little streets. These are located on the West side of the Dam. And check it out!
One for Nita.
One for Naomi.
One for the fun.
And one for me!
Then, just as you find ducklings in the canal and think it can’t get any better …
you see that the canal is full of floating Nemos!
Damn I love this city!
I may have to go back and buy this little girl. She looks so lonely!
The end of Summer
So, Sydney and New South Wales in general has been flooding. This was what I walked through on the way to work last Thursday. And by the time I’d gotten to the awning to take this photo it wasn’t as bad as what I’d walked through.
I was completely drenched from the belly button down, and only need to walk a block from the bus! Not long after my bus went through, that bus route was closed due to flooding. YAY for starting work early … or something …
Surprisingly the weather cleared up remarkably well for the weekend!
We had a busy weekend. There was some celebrating at our favourite pub, with some wonderful friends who it had been entirely too long since we’d seen. There was much chatting and catching up, and it felt like old times again. It had its poignant moments.
I have to keep reminding myself that it really is Autumn now, not Spring. We had such a non-event of a Summer, that when I walked down the street and saw this beautiful tree busting with buds and new blooms just waiting to explode, it really felt like Spring …
On Sunday we woke up bright and early and decided that exercise was the order of the day. So we went for a walk down the road to the local pool. We did some laps (and boy did I feel out of shape!), and then I lay in the sun warming up a bit while being amused at Himself jumping off the diving tower with all the kids. We both got a touch of pink to our complexions!
Being that there were kids, and it’s a local pool, I didn’t take any photos. Not worth it. But it is a lovely pool! And I’m looking forward to frequenting it in the next couple of weeks while/if the weather remains warm enough to enjoy it.
With exercise done, I came home and achieved lots of knitting! I’m up to row 16 of chart 3, and only need to reach row 71 before I can begin the edging! Each row is taking approximately an hour. It doesn’t look all that different from the last time I showed you a picture.
That’s about it for this week. More photos in the next exciting episode!
Random Life Points
1. We celebrated my birthday extremely late. Because we could.
2. I can still crochet. I made this one night when I needed an instant gratification project. I gave this one to a lady at work.
3. Life is as hectic as always around here, but we still find time for the odd cat nap.
4. Tell me what’s been going on in your life?
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