Annie's Blog

the zygocactus have been looking great lately... such a pretty color apologies if I have posted this previously went for a drive with a friend not far from here, and we found these hillsides of yellow flowers in bloom... have no idea what they are, apart from looking like giant daisies...and quite impressive hope you have enjoyed them too.... and had a good week. I seem to be forgetting to blog lately.... must be all the fun I have babysitting!! Hope you have a good week. May God bless you this week.

This once stately old Queenslander stands out on a corner at Brookfield, a leafy rural suburb not many kilometres from the city. In the last years the old house has been very dilapidated, so I was very surprised to see it now being renovated.

I'd like to tell you about the concert I went to. Rochelle and Caitlin invited me along. A very intimate chamber music setting. I wanted to share some photos that I took. You could be forgiven for thinking that it was held in a shop. And you would be co rrect! Exactly right. How enterprising. These young music students from the university have formed themselves into a chamber music group. Good on them. One of Caitlin's friends Emily played Cello. She and Caitlin had helped mind my house and Abbey one year at Christmas for a couple of weeks. Which was very kind of them. Emily was a very enterprising young cello player who seemed quite happy to travel (she wasn't from Queensland) everywhere with her cello. I have to tell you a funny story. There was one brave (?) young man among the group of about 15 musicians. And where the women mostly had their hair tied suitably back so they could read their music, he had shortish hair, which flopped all over his face. We coudn't see ...