Georgiezine

My ambitions were somewhat grand. Saturday I had a timetable of markets,  Rollerskating, orchestra and Vietnamese. The reality was. Rollerskating-non event, as kid fell asleep. Orchestra-goal achieved! Vietnamese with friends-goal achieved! We had playground trip where Duckworth's fears about how soon his son would be acting out, were verified (14 month old ran away; also intently watched the naughty actions of the older kids).  Our dinner was great, Pho Hoan, which is quieter, more kid friendly to eat in, and had great mango smoothies, great pho and great broken rice dishes. Sunday's goal was open garden. This was slightly more challenging-had deleted the email invitation, yet organised friends to meet us there... but it turned out even more successful. I sat on a hill whilst son ran around with the offspring of familiar people/couples, Nick and I admiring things from nature that we couldn't name-"look at those trees. Those flowers. Those shrubs. Those she...

Sadly the Glebe hotel is in its last days-Gretska has received a job promotion in San Francisco, and whilst this offers many fantastic possibilities for the future, I will miss all the Wigram Road shenanigans. Over the APEC weekend we savoured her company and the inner west vibe.... found the greatest cafe in the world (or at least in Sydney-gallery cafe in Annandale), browsed for reusable furniture and art pieces at Marrickville (got cool tiles) ...discovered a cool printing shop... stumbled across my favourite candle shop in Australia Street (still there eight years later!). I am slowly learning to garden... my neighbour found some terracotta pots for me and gave me some succulents... my tiles can be broken and used to cover the pots.