Still here

It's not that there hasn't been anything to blog lately... just no time in which to do the blogging. 

 The last couple of weeks have been a blur.  Lots of book-writing and trying to squeeze out one more pattern before Christmas... burning midnight oil and the candle at both ends. And life... lots of ordinary, everyday school runs, supermarket shopping and laundry.  

 

 But there was also cake.  

 Adele (who left us to return to New Zealand a few months ago) popped in. Adele and I share a birthday, and although it isn't the date yet, the lovely girls in the office decided that we should still have cake.

There was also an exhibition opening.  It's by a group of RMIT Textiles alumni, based around the theme of Suspension.  Stunning work and good friends. 

This work is by Lucy Hardman.  It is beautiful.  My friend Marion 's work really moved me, too... but I didn't manage to get a good photo of it. 

 

If you're in Melbourne and into textiles and/or sculpture, do make the trip to Tinning St gallery.

 

...just don't take a bored 7-year-old with you (this was the best behaviour of the evening).

Oh - and there was also a long-overdue trip to the hairdressers.... and the need for another mug-shot.

 

Ok.. back to the book-writing, for me.

Can't look up...

This is what I do on little bridges across deep chasms, when I absolutely have to get to the other side..... one foot in front of the other, hold tight and DON'T. LOOK. UP.

I know.. I miss out on some fantastic scenery, but sometimes you just have to get to where you're going.

This photo is one of a series of photos of one such walk across one such bridge (on the West of Ireland, in about 2001).  Vertigo captured for posterity (actually, it was captured because my companion thought it was hysterically funny).

Anyway - I've been really busy, just ploughing on through the backlog of work that built up when I had flu and school holidays (and there are various other real life dramas in the background).  Things have been a bit vertigo-ish. 

Can't look up. 

Back soon.  There are good things ahead.