Ganeida's Knots

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

 Well we are back from whence we've gone ~ & just in the nick of time.  Kirby has done his dash & Dearest has sworn he will never be solely responsible for my cats ever, ever again. *sigh*   Kirby expressed his upset & displeasure at my absence by attacking Dearest's stamps ~ which are his home business as well as his hobby so not the thing to do, Kirby!  I had to confine Kirby last night as he is the escape artiste extraordinaire & will do his dastardly deeds in the dark of night.   I knew it was going to be touchy but not even I expected such wickedness.




Star & I left for mum's after her choir rehearsals on Wednesday ~ so a night drive which is mesmerizing & hypnotic over long distances.  Star sang the entire way, which should have been enough to keep anyone from slumber but I have extraordinary powers in that direction so she sang & fed me jelly snakes & told me wild tales of impossible deeds ~ at least, I hope they are impossible!


Mum's, like us, has had an inordinate amount of rain over winter which has been very good for her garden & it is looking lovely though I think mum is about to come to blows with the employed *gardeners*, who seem to know nothing about growing anything & are responsible for cutting the lillipillies into the most extraordinary shapes, pruning the roses just as they have all burst into bud & dump mulch on bone dry garden beds.  Mum is beside herself ~ understandably.    Everywhere she has lived she has established an absolutely riotous garden & to see good plants so abused goes against her grain.


We only had a couple of days; after all, school has resumed up here.  I mourn the early days when we could ignore the public school schedule at will  & take good solid breaks outside of regular school hours but these days all Star's music is tied into the school schedules so that is that.  Our first day was lovely & we managed a lovely long walk along the empty beach & a lovely afternoon tea at The Loaded Lizard, who do the loveliest homemade biscuits & slices.  Very yummy.  A good thing we didn't wait as the clouds came over & the rain came down & our second day was wet, windy & miserable.  We played darts & ping~pong & watched a movie but mum was a bit concerned as flash flooding hit the low lying areas & while the highway remains high & dry, Star & I are not guaranteed to remain on the highway!  We headed off mid~morning Saturday during a break in the weather & remained dry until the Brisbane outskirts.  Naturally we just missed a boat & got rather damp around the edges getting home but we are back & Star is gearing up for a really busy term.  She needs to get stuck into her school work as the reality is she needs to get all done this month.  Next month is a nightmare & we just won't be here.