birthday lunch today at flanagan's in the marsh for nell's 88th birthday - such a lovely lady, her spirit gets younger and younger every time i see her! dirty mind, full of laughs, she just keeps on keeping on - good on her! be nice to go on a pokies trip again one day, see the lovely countryside of the murray river and surrounds and have a good laugh with a bunch of great older people
an hour until the train to the city for alex's farewell party in fitzroy...
going to really miss her, she's been like a sister to me over here (funny, given my sister's name is actually alex too lol), but i know we'll be friends always and that's a nice thought..... it'll give me another good excuse to get to adelaide, to see the latest happenings of the train and tram lines, and to see alex too...
the painter came this morning to finish the last coat of the inside of the front door - damn it looks good, i love the colours i chose for this place :-)
managed to get the fire going again after it burnt out overnight with just a few bits of kindling wood - love it when i can do that and not have to fuss about with setting up a new fire, use fire lighters etc
been a good weekend so far, more interesting dreams last night but i can't really remember them now...
washing is drying in front of the fire now after i gave it a bit of air outside on the line for a few hours this morning before heading out for lunch
so i made that orange cake and completely forgot about it until after people's desserts started coming out! so i was a bit embarrassed to bring it out at that point so i just gave the whole thing to nell after everyone left to head home and i said she could eat it all herself hehehe
the embers in the fire are a beautiful glow of reds and oranges.... maybe tonight i might pull out the single mattress and goto sleep watching the fire burn in front of my eyes..... i'll see how i feel when i get back depending on what time that actually is! just to watch the flames dance around the fire box in twirls and swirls, hiding behind logs then reappearing seconds later in a big lashing towards the roof of the box.....
i better stop otherwise i'll fall asleep now with laptop in lap *YAWN!* and miss the train to the city lol
but fire is one of those things that makes me stop in awe of it and just watch it.... bit like how i feel when i visit the tunnels in helensburgh and otford etc, just standing at the mouth of a tunnel and looking up at the roof of it and being amazed by it's size and as to how people could construct such a thing of construction beauty back in the late 1800's.....
i love buildings and structures - more so older buildings than the new whiz bang wanky architectural things these days..... but structures amaze me, new and old.... it makes my brain smile.....
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