holidays continue

I’ve been neglecting you. I’m sorry.

The office purge has been continuing here. The bins went out absolutely choc-a-block last week, and I still need to refill them for this week. I’ve finished the embroidery panel for the bottom of the dress I am making, and started on my next project. I’ve been doing stuff with the family, seeing it is school holidays. I’ve been writing some articles for magazines, and feeling guilty about the things on my To Do list that I haven’t gotten to yet.

I accepted a delivery of 1.4 tonnes of books, all of which had to be moved from their place of delivery to their storage spot. All 96 cartons, each weighing about 15kg had to be removed from their pallet, put on the industrial sized trolley, pushed to their resting place and removed from the trolley. Yes, I moved all 1.4 tonnes myself. I expected to have dreadful aches and pains the next day, but surprisingly I was fine!

One of the fun activities I did with my girls was a “Rockpool Ramble” with a marine biologist from the Central Coast Marine Discovery Centre. It was at Bateau Bay, about an hour from Sydney. The bay has two rock platforms, which at low tide are exposed. It was a really wonderful time of discovery, learning about the sea creatures that we were seeing and the environment in which they live.

I think the highlight for me was seeing a really ugly sea slug, which apparently aren’t common in the area. It looked like a big thick oozy black thing. Not the most attractive of creatures…

Here the girls are experimenting with the cunjevoi, or sea squirts. I remember doing that when I was little; pressing the cunjevoi and seeing which way it squirted!

The rockpools were beautiful, and if I was that way inclined, I thought they would make a wonderful embroidery subject. I’m not that way inclined though, because I am too busy wrapped up in traditional whitework!

I feel like I’ve had a good mix of relaxation and work during these holidays. School starts back next week, so I should be able to resume my normal routine a little more. And probably get less work done than I’ve managed to in the holidays!