Well it has been quite a while and there are a few reasons for that - a lot of celebrating around my 50th birthday being a major contributor. Now it is time for my liver and waistline to recover and normal duties to resume at home - the festival cannot go on forever.
As part of the 'festival' my husband and I had a lovely few days in Canberra, not the hottest romantic location du jour but an easy drive from home and a few things to look at and what's not to like about a teenager free zone for a while. In Canberra we had a fabulous dinner at
Aubergine and some very nice beer at a Belgian beer cafe called
'Little Brussels' in Kingston which really was very enjoyable - beer - I know but it was fun and the food looked great! Other meals weren't memorable and our favourite breakfast joint,
Silo Bakery, was closed both mornings we were there - bummer. We went to see the renovations at the National Gallery which were beautiful and the new indigenous galleries are terrific. we also re-visited the National Portrait Gallery and for the first time went inside the High Court of Australia which was terrific. It was a Sunday so there was no-one around but the building is fantastic - you really sense the importance of its purpose and I will go back when court is sitting next time.
On the way home we stopped in Bowral to check out our weekender which is being re-let and were very pleased to see all the trees we have planted growing furiously and the place in pretty good nic - another year or so and we will be ready to use it again and it will be great. For now, it is nice to know someone else is enjoying it and we don't have to squeeze in maintenance visits with all our other commitments.
A glimpse of what I miss...
What I'm not missing is feeling like we are never on top of the gardens and my husband always mowing the grass!!!!
Note there are no photos of the house.....this is the next project....
