A lovely Easter

I feel as though it should all be doom and gloom at the moment but honestly, we have just had a very pleasant Easter. I missed the Folk Festival terribly (it was cancelled a while ago, many thousands of old people in one spot was never going to be a good idea) but had a little Spotify festival on my own to make up. And the weather on Friday and Saturday was cold, windy and rainy; lovely to be tucked up at home (with our first fire of the year!!! Yay!!!!) but would have been quite unpleasant listening to bluegrass in a tent.

Friday afternoon it cleared up at the end of the day and everyone took to the outdoors. I went for a long walk through the suburb to check out the community oval where they are building a massive demountable emergency hospital. It's over the road from the main hospital, and next to the school, so kind of practical. But kind of sad, I like that open area, and the thought that all that space might be needed for buildings and beds is terrifying. Fingers crossed it won't be needed. But it was a beautiful walk.



We spent most of the days putting our kitchen back to rights which took MUCH longer than I thought it would. The kitchen is basically the same, but it still seemed to take forever to decide what went where, and how it would work, and whether we needed all those shitty bent cake tins and random plastic spatula things. When we packed it up we had poked various things in various cupboards throughout the house so it took a while to unravel.  Also five gold stars to my Dad who did a tremendously thorough job on packing away the good china and glass bowls - all survived unscathed and are now safely back in the good china cupboard to continue not being used.

It is not quite 100% done (and we have nowhere to donate the things we don't need, which is a bit frustrating) but we moved the dining table back into the dining room and it is like a huge weight off. We have the space back, and can move around a bit more freely, and it is lovely! When the dining room was empty it got vacuumed and mopped and scrubbed, so that is nice too. I will post photos of the new kitchen when it is sorted - it is weird how exactly the same it is. Because our kitchen worked so well I always said I wanted exactly the same, but new ... now that we have exactly the same but new it is perhaps lacking in excitement. But the oven and the cooktop are magic, and the benches are beautiful, and it is shiny and fresh and clean. For now.



This photo is the garden at the moment (with some galahs) - it is all over the place because the late rain convinced everything it was spring. It is not usual to see the grape vine turning while the roses are still blooming, but at least it's green(ish).