A Busy few weeks

The house looks like a bomb site but is quite a happy household although Geoff and Jen suffer from sleepless nights with their two girls.

We are all rostered onto cooking duty and Arianne and I had such fun one night testing out two meals given to Jen from Marley Spoon. They certainly were delicious.

Last Friday Ellen and I went to TEDxSydney, a day of very interesting talks. There were some really good ones. We were fed well and entertained with out there music that was over amplified. Some would have been good at a reasonable volume. We even ended up on the live stream.

I am loving having so many people around but am hating the fact that I often get up quite stiff and sore from my back-hip-leg issues. By about mid morning I can move a bit better but it takes that long.

A weekend of Music

I have now recovered from my weekend of music. Saturday and Sunday were spent practising and performing Mendelssohn's Elijah with Chorus Oz (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs) at the Opera House. It is always such a great experience.

This year my Sunday morning was filled with a choral matins at St Stephens in Macquarie St. This was a huge sing just to warm me up before being driven to the Opera House in the Tardis and experiencing time travel that got me there only 1.5 hours late for Elijah practice.

June visits to Underhill

Last week I had an overnight visit to Underhill with friend Sally. We were able to get some winter burning off done and do a bit more around the outdoor fireplace. It was quite cold but we were both able to stay warm and cosy.

I picked the ripe medlars and ended up with a tiny batch which I boiled and strained coarsely when I returned home. They taste great when absolutely squishy, a bit like 'apple sauce'.

We had two fires going to do a bit more burning off but because it started raining late afternoon we could not do as much as I'd hoped for.

Another job was to test out phone reception and Sally spent a lot of time 'praying' to the mobile gods to see if we could get any reception in various places.

On Friday Geoff and I went down again for a day trip and did a little more burning off and clearing up. He really needed to go down to deliver a trailer load of things from his house pending his move.

Then on Saturday Nathan and Karita went down. They experimented with the best way to pull out stumps and did a lot of clearing up and cutting firewood from the timber left from Nathan's milling.

All is looking much clearer and better prepared for a dry, hot summer but there is still lots to do in these few winter months when we are allowed to burn off.