Call me strange but I love seeing a washing line full of clean clothes. I always have some sense of accomplishment, of home and contentment.. This latest house has an old fashioned free standing Hills hoist - I think I fell in love the moment I saw it. I knew that it and I would have a long and lasting relationship...
Today - Sunday - being such a beautiful day here in Melbourne I couldn't help myself - I had to take a photo of our weekly washing drying in a gentle breeze surrounded by a garden full of flowering plants and buzzing bees....
I have had a busy weekend - it was my birthday on Friday so both P and I had a day off... We went down to Mordiallioc for a stroll along the beach and lunch at a restaurant called Windows on the Bay where we had lovely lunch watching the container ships make their way up the bay...
Yesterday we went to see the Tutankhamun
exhibition at the Museum which was amazing in itself...The skills and craftsman ship in some of those pieces just took my breath away...It was difficult to get my head around that these pieces were 3000 years old - that they had been painstakingly made by crafts people who in their wildest imaginings couldn't have imagined a time much beyond their own.. As I looked at each piece I thought about what it had been a witness to - the sights and sounds which had surrounded it... In a way these pieces have travelled to an 'afterlife' a place where another race of people gaze on them in awe and in wonder...Would we be considered to be gods???? May these pieces keep 'travelling through time' astounding many more generations of people to come with their secrets, 'magic' and craftsmanship...
Stitching... Oh, you mean have I done any stitching... Not likely although I have been reading quite a few stitching blogs... Does that count??? I have been following Helen Stubbings 'Stitched Sundays' - today was a tutorial on how to do Bullion stitches...She makes it look so easy :-)
Today I had a feeling of 'home' - the sun shone through the windows casting shadows on the floor... It was an easy kinda day - may there be more of them...
Until later - take care
S xxx
2 comments:
I share your feelings about a line of washing. I always feel very satisfied when I see mine all done!
I am glad to hear you had a day off for your birthday with Pete - you both really needed some time out after all the upheaval of the past month! I am so envious of you seeing the Tutankhamum exhibition; we've been talking about going but it will probably end up like the Pompei (sp) one and we'll miss out because we left it too late...
Happy birthday lovely!!! You seem to be feeling more settled... waxing lyrical about washing on the line sounds a bit like contentment? I love it too... xo
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