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todayiamadaisy) wrote2008-03-06 11:05 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2008-03-06 11:05 pm
Today in pictures
I had to drive my mother to the airport today; she met Colleen and Brenda, two of her old nursing school friends, there and they flew off to Sydney for a week to celebrate the forty year reunion of their nursing graduation. What fun that has been to hear about; one fellow graduate has refused to attend in a fit of pique because the rest of them didn't follow her suggestion of where to meet.
While they were waiting at the airport, Brenda announced that she had friends to visit in Sydney one afternoon, and that "you can come if you like".
"Oh no," said Colleen. "Pauline and I are going to a show that day."
When Brenda was out of earshot, Colleen and my mother fell about giggling. "Well," said Colleen, "I couldn't let her think she was the only one important enough to have plans". Quite.
On the way to the airport, my mother told me to stop at John's on the way home. Why, mother? "He's got a visitor!" Come to think of it, I don't know why he couldn't take her to the airport in the first place; he was just footling about in his shed when I got there, so he obviously didn't have anything more pressing on.
Anyway, John lives in the rural hinterland of the City by the Sea; exactly where various bodies are trying to create a eucalyptus belt so koalas can find plenty of shelter when they wander. He has a few of the suggested trees, well established, in his garden.
So his visitor turned out to be rather cute:
Then I went home to go through some old notebooks to find some notes I took about a book a few years ago. I found them - phew! - and also found a drawing. I'm not a drawer, I must say; my Year 9 science teacher laughed at the sheep I drew in my illustration of the rain cycle (the sheep was just standing on the ground as decoration, you understand, not there as part of the cycle). But for some reason the muse to draw a tin of sardines struck me on 1 April 2005, and looking at it now I don't think it turned out too badly.
I mean, I think you can tell what it's meant to be, which is all I hope for. :-)
Finally, in case anyone who's interested hasn't seen it yet: it turns out that Garfield is much more interesting without Garfield (syndicated as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
garfieldminus).
While they were waiting at the airport, Brenda announced that she had friends to visit in Sydney one afternoon, and that "you can come if you like".
"Oh no," said Colleen. "Pauline and I are going to a show that day."
When Brenda was out of earshot, Colleen and my mother fell about giggling. "Well," said Colleen, "I couldn't let her think she was the only one important enough to have plans". Quite.
On the way to the airport, my mother told me to stop at John's on the way home. Why, mother? "He's got a visitor!" Come to think of it, I don't know why he couldn't take her to the airport in the first place; he was just footling about in his shed when I got there, so he obviously didn't have anything more pressing on.
Anyway, John lives in the rural hinterland of the City by the Sea; exactly where various bodies are trying to create a eucalyptus belt so koalas can find plenty of shelter when they wander. He has a few of the suggested trees, well established, in his garden.
So his visitor turned out to be rather cute:
Then I went home to go through some old notebooks to find some notes I took about a book a few years ago. I found them - phew! - and also found a drawing. I'm not a drawer, I must say; my Year 9 science teacher laughed at the sheep I drew in my illustration of the rain cycle (the sheep was just standing on the ground as decoration, you understand, not there as part of the cycle). But for some reason the muse to draw a tin of sardines struck me on 1 April 2005, and looking at it now I don't think it turned out too badly.
I mean, I think you can tell what it's meant to be, which is all I hope for. :-)
Finally, in case anyone who's interested hasn't seen it yet: it turns out that Garfield is much more interesting without Garfield (syndicated as
garfieldminus).