My Place: Winter 2009

These are the front steps, up to the landing:

That door at the top goes back down steps to the yard, and my little pot-garden:

Here is my front door: Flat 2


Looking back at the lounge room: I am learning the ukulele - 4 chords so far! That's one per year:

Hallway, glimpse of my bedroom at the end:



Kitchen, first on the right:


Bathroom, 2nd on the right - the decorator was thinking "Spring":


My study nook - it's laundry day. My new computer, my old desk back with me after 5 years: that's a photo of my brother in a tree that I took with Michael's box-brownie, I printed it out on an A1 piece of paper. Love that photo - love that camera:

Wet

I left the flat this morning down the back way, past my little pot garden and the sweetpeas I planted in the crack between the old fence and the concrete, behind the bins. They were so beautiful, covered in raindrops, so I went back and got my camera and took some pictures.



I looked at these on the computer after I downloaded them, zooming in on the droplets and the petals, and felt a rare kind of joy. .

40^th Birthday Gift Registry

ILLEGAL – please do not get

• Cocaine
• Snow leopard-lined winter coat
• Hyacinthine macaw
• Looted Greek antiquity
• Non-antique ivory bibelots
• Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

AMAZING

• 3-sided cribbage board (pref. antique, marquetry, with ivory and ebony pins)
• Motorbike, with helmet, jacket and boots
• Beautiful card/games table (pref. antique, baize, drawers)
• Real linen bed-linen
• Case of Dom Perignon
• Yacht or other sailing vessel
• Return air-ticket to Turkey

GREAT

• Tool-box
• Bicycle
• Backpack – day
• Backpack – hiking
• Watch – underwater
• Sunglasses
• CD player
• DVD player
• TV
• Diving flippers
• Scuba wetsuit
• Pair of G-Star jeans
• Electric kitchen scales
• Beauty products (Clarins)
• Subscriptions to plays, the opera

NICE

• Books
• CDs
• DVDs
• Subscription to magazines
• Groovy clothes, including shoes

THOUGHTFUL

• Underwear
• Gym shorts
• Pair of dark green speedoes
• Swimming goggles
• Pencil case