The first week of spring

Boo peep little mate spent the night with us last Saturday afternoon and night , while his master went out with his kids for Fathers Day she was very good but she watched the door waiting for her mate to come home.

 She likes warm pillows.

 Barbarba and I went to see the entries for the archiebold  art prize in the Sydney art gallery  we stopped for coffee  these two fellows were stealing sugar, they took the packets and opened them and took them up to higher ground to enjoy them.

No  photos of the paintings you are not allowed to take photos with a camera but people do with a phone, they had 900 odd entries and showed 51 not really fair they should show more than that.

This is my jasmine all out in flower smells lovely but plays up with my nose as I get older.

This my painting of Susie .

I worked on it a bit more and now I'm happy with it, not much more to say it's been a quiet week.

The strand arcade and The Marble Bar

This is the oldest cash regiester I think I have ever seen and very fancy it was to.

And a wooden lady I would love for my garden but maybe she wouldn't last too long in the wet .

Stairs to secret places

The strand arcade a very pretty place

We had afternoon tea in the QBE but had had a big lunch in the Strand Arcade so not to hungry so cutting the cakes in half and only had one serving, that was plenty.

I'm not sure why I took this photo .

This is The Marble Bar hard to take photos it is very dark no one there but us and a another couple I think they had just opened .

Wonderful paintings and lots of marble

This one is very a bit on the wonky side

 this is the front door and my mate taking a picture

We now have trams in the main street of downtown Sydney no cars anymore a few blokes wondering around trying to look important.

This guy was doing something,  the tramway has taken a long time to do and is well over budget, the tramway is now finished and now they are testing it for 3 months our state premier went on a ride the other day but it is not open to the public till christmas time why it requires so much testing I have no idea.

This was my ex work place  no longer a front door in the street all blocked off

And cranes in the front yard so maybe they are doing something with it as I know it was only rented when I worked there.

Winter will soon be over.

The sun shines and the days are sunny and warm for winter but come 4 o'clock it is freezing but I'm doing stuff in the garden while the heat lasts lots of the trees have died so it's clean up time.

This was dead moth vine and the bogie is shooting after the big cut back

Everything is covered with bird poo and pine needles the fairies are not happy

And Pidge and the beer fairy having a cuddle.

I've had a few fires burning off the dead leaves

I like taking pictures of the smoke

and it's warm

nice to sit and watch the flames

I done cardie's for the twins good knitting weather at night, unicorns for Clemie, and monster trucks for Wilbur..

Slowly getting the garden all tidy many dead leaves.

 Pidge has a new home he has been moving lots of twigs into the shed behind the doors stacked up across some boxes nice and warm and out of the wind but we can't shut the shed up as he comes and goes as he likes.

Here he is in his new bed.