Marriage & love
Tilda drew this wedding scene after watching Whose Wedding Is It Anyway. (Not her favourite show – she much prefers Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.) Meanwhile, she can’t stop talking about Her Favourite Lifeguard, who waves to her and smiles to her and occasionally even speaks to her! She is constantly wanting to go [...]
Twin obsessions
I’ve recently had the urge to knit. It’s certainly not thanks to the weather – the hot, dry weather of last week gave way to almost-as-hot, humid weather, which makes us all cranky, particularly Tilda as she walks home from kinder. But I’ve decided that I’m going to knit a shawl, in red silk. I [...]
Twinkle, twinkle
Tilda has learned how to play a song on the piano. Not surprisingly, she can’t take too much piano instruction from me at a time, so it’s been a slow progression from me pointing to the keys, to me pointing to C and G and singing the next note, to doing it herself. She hasn’t [...]
Waterslide
It was very exciting to discover today that the second-closest pool to us has a proper waterslide, as Tilda has dreamed of going down a waterslide ever since she saw footage of Hi-5 at a water park. Another hot day was a good excuse to try out the ‘new’ pool. The slide has a height [...]
Verdi
Last night was the free concert of bits from Verdi operas, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. I took this picture during the morning rehearsal. By the 7 pm concert, the seats and lawn were filled, with lots of kids in the audience. It was very hot (37C, according to an onstage thermometer), and the [...]
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