A "Thank You" from County Music

Saturday evening there was a "Thank You" to the volunteers who helped out at the County Music Festival, which is held on Norfolk every May. Although the evening was cold, wet and stormy, the inside of the Guide Hall rang with the sound of happy ~ music, laughter, eating, drinking, dancing and generally making merry.

And why wouldn't it ring with laughter with these four maaden 'baut

The more serious of those present (hahahahaha - not!) listening intently to the music

Moving round the table to still more revellers - great night

For some reason, which I can't really fathom, alot of the photos were blurred! I don't know whether it was from too much movement of the subjects, I was walking too fast, or what the reason was

Now. Gaeleen and Kym (oh my gawd look at young Kymi - so innocent) - Cindy and Ren!!!!!!! There is NOTHING more to say

These are one of those photos that should be immediately deleted - but I didn't!

The young uns! Great to see them there

One photo! One photo of the three of them looking serious

Jackie helping Trent out with his strumming

Shane telling Jackie what to do

Kim giving general advise on whatever

Ren trying her darnest to look innocent ~ and failing miserably I might add

Collusionists!

See! They've gone blurry also

Ginny and Jackie paying full attention

Red eyes suits him so well don't you think

JenJen in the thick of it. She is such fun and keeps the whole thing going

Aah. Now here's a shot. Ren and George. No comment!

Hah. Cindy and Kym. Even more no comment!

Aww Cor. I haven't posted the one where she's showing me her naughty finger

Chrissie watching her beautiful daughter

Jill and Suz - No comment

Cor and Jackie -  Even more no comment

Up and at 'em! Dancing Queens

Wi se mean et!

Oops. A bit of joviality there Evans!

...and as for these two numbskulls...

...dem probably laughen fe ucklun

Kim and McKenzie

Gorgeous! She's dancing in the chair

Roscoe

Pete putting up with Jackie

Roscoe and Jill

...and one last shot of McKenzie dancing. That's why she's a little blurred. This young lady MOVES.
Great night, great fun - We really missed you Sally, and anyway, you should NEVER let him out alone!

Beautiful roses

Saz came to visit me on Saturday morning at Soul Gallery. She brought with her a bouquet of the most beautiful roses. She also brought grapefruit, oranges and a bag of tomatoes, all freshly picked from her grandparents farm. Meadow to Meal. How gorgeously delicious is that!

Tzarn and Corinna were already visiting so all three posed for a quick snap ~ and voila. Lucky Lucky Me.

House Painting at Lorilea

 Sharyn had a great idea. She would paint the new cladding on Lorilea. Hah. Top idea. I'm in. So down I drove to Ball Bay to lend her a little expertise and professionalism and as I parked my car, I saw ~ maybe for the first time, it's only been there since before I was born! ~ the old shed. It's falling down now but I remember the good old days when it held my Grandfather's sea chest with pieces of tortoise shell (he used to make jewellery out of them, with inlaid silver ~ beautiful but we played with them and lost them of course); bottles of whale oil; patterns for boats and canoe's, old copper nails, axes we weren't allowed to touch (but did anyway) and a million other things. I took a photo and one day ~ the great one day ~ I'm going to draw or paint it!
 

 

I took a photo and one day ~ the great one day ~ I'm going to draw or paint it!

 Enough of that. Back to painting. Here is Shaz putting her back into rolling the paint on. As you can see it's an older style house ~ built by my grandfather in 1936 actually ~ so walls are high and the roof is higher. You need serious stamina to paint this!

 A little time out whilst Shaz poses for the camera to record the event. Truly blogworthy.

Oh yeah. Number One Son ~ who was a professional painter in his last career ~ was cajolled to paint the high bits. And as I said, I mean seriously high. He's about 4 metres (or 12 feet in my language) above the ground on a thin piece of timber, rolling and singing. Yep. We were VERY pleased to have him. Job well done kiddies. (What do you mean there's no photo of me! I was working too darned hard!)

A Winter's Weekend

Just spent another weekend sans children. Well sort of. The Eldest Son called up for dinner on Sunday night with Corinna. Now that's the sort of dinner party to have. I put a roast in the crock pot and Corinna drives up ten minutes prior to noshing time with a HUGE tray of baked vegetables, fresh out of Dids farm. Kumera, carrots, fennel bulbs, onion, pumpkin, irish potatoes, and then some cabbage and spinach to round off. Oh yes. Did I mention that she also made a plun pilhai.  For those of you who don't speak Norf'k, that's a traditional Norfolk Island dish that was brought over with the Pitcairners - Baked Banana. Yumtious and our answer to Yorkshire pudding.

On the road again.....Part II

For those of you who read my blog you will know that yesterday saw the moving of the first half of one of the DCA houses. Today, whilst Paula was on her way to work, she came across the second half! As her photography is five times better than mine, I've uploaded her photos so that you can all enjoy part II, of this house, driving down the road!
 

 Around a very sharp corner

 then continuing along a very short straight

 before another very sharp corner

 and another straight. This will continue all along the way until it's final destination is reach. Hopefully with a minimum of hiccups

Oops. Like this one. Squeezing through the cattle grid! Made it! ...and on the road again! Well done.

Sugar and spice and all things delicious

Not too sure what's happening here, but I uploaded this last week and it's just been stuck, sitting inside the drafts folder. Now it's decided to come out of hiding. What do you think of this cake? Let me tell you friends and neighbours, IT WAS DELICIOUS!

WWW ~ Workin With Weeds

Wow! Just received the funniest email, and if you don't know Miki then you might not see the joke, but to have this little Miss working in the garden ~ and pulling out weeds moreover, nonetheless ~ is Hilarious!
..and I quote ~

Thought I would share these photos.....(writes Miki)

I have been in Sydney all week attending a Conference for Team Managers, staying at the Hilton hotel which really sucked - NOT -- listening to the very inspirational CEO, such a cool calm and collected dude and CEO of the year for the second time. Anyway we had to provide some of our precious time to "volunteering", so they arranged for us to spend a day in a National park pulling out weeds

 It was great fun and they could not have picked a more beautiful spot

So here I am in my gear, note even had my own tool bag, equipped with secateurs, knife and small spade. Had to be covered head to toe because of creatures, such as ticks and had several layers of clothing because it was a balmy 7 degrees when we got there, but worth it. 

Did u know..............Weeds are a BIG issue, because when people do landscaping in their homes and let me tell u the homes were mere Minnie mansions and some real mansions, what happens is the seeds from their gardens blow into the National park and the introduced species start growing and kill the natural greenery,

There u go, seems I learnt something too.

Oh help me. Tears running down face!! Well Done Miki. We're so proud of you!