Waynes 40th

I joined the clan attending a luncheon at Mount Barker to celebrate Wayne's 40th.
This was a nice family occasion. Bec, Barbara's niece had just returned from New Zealand with her baby daughter Arielle.


Wayne looking at his big cake.


Chloe made a meal out of her slice!


Barbara's Mother Valda, sisters Joanne and Chris and Barb
(with Wayne holding Arielle)

Kurntumaru and Parnaparnti: My new Jimmy Pike jumper

Jan Hastings,a lovely lady from Darwin has just sent me my latest jumper she has knitted for me. Its timely as winter has now arrived. I like the designs created by the late Jimmy Pike (see more about Jimmy Pike here )and this is the second jumper she has made for me from a pattern book I bought.
This jumpers design is based on the Dreamtime stories about two cousin-brothers, Kurntumaru and Parnaparnti who tracked all the snakes "They been go in a long big hole. They touched the snakes with a stick. The names of the place are Wurrampangu and Narikartuwarnti. All the big sandhills called Japi are there, very dangerous to people. That's a Dreamtime place that's a Wituka Country. The two cousin-brothers went all through that country" (Jimmy Pike, quoted in Desert Designs: 26 knits by Aboriginal Artists, text by Stephen Muecke, Simon & Schuster, Brookvale NSW, 1990

An alternative version is"Dreamtime figures: two cousin-brothers, Kurntumaru (black goanna) and Parnaparnti (yellow sand goana), giant men who traveled from East to West, naming animals as they went." See the original print here

Michael's birthday

There was a gathering of the clan at my brother Tony and his wife Daphne (always known in the family as "Joey") house for my brother Michael's 50th. Mike began a personal blog that night.


Joey and Tony are very involved with fauna rescue so cuddling baby kangaroo's (or real "joeys") was the order of the evening.


Hayley was a happy young visitor:

My son Hugh, just back from Europe mut be feeling like he is an Aussie again.

Anzac Day

I got up early and with Joanne (Barbara's sister and Wayne,her brother-in-law) attended the Anzac Day service at Cherry Gardens, a small village near Iron Bank.

The Coat estate

I am staying a few days on the Coat family estate at Iron Bank, a very pretty part of the Adelaide Hills.

On the way back from the Anzac Day service we came across this Koala in a tree on the edge of the road.

Trip to Edithburgh

I spent a pleasant day at the Coat family holiday home in Edithburgh

at the heel of Yorke Penisula with Barbara and her family and also with Sue Milne and her boys.

Sue and I had worked at Adelaide TAFE in 1984 so it was good to catch up with her.



There is an impressive area south of the town with wind turbines.

Chloe

Barbara's youngest Chloe, now 14 months old was pretty in a party dress when she came over for a barbecue with her brother Max and cousin Dylan and his friend Angus.

Plenty to see

The boys, including young Max were taking lots of photos.

Pleasant day at Cleland Wildlife Park

I enjoyed a day out with my sons Dave and Hugh and also Barbara and her children Chloe and Max at Cleland.

Bees supping at Collingrove

Had afternoon tea on the way home from the Barossa at Collingrove Homestead

Anstey Hill walk

East End of Adelaide

It was good to show the Fergusons, from Ballarat around Adelaide. We had lunch at a cafe in Rundle Street .

Easter in Adelaide

This was on a trip to Anstey Hill.



It was nice to spend the day out with my "boys" Dave and Hugh. Hugh has jut returned from England.



An old barn at Bethany