Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
Last Saturday saw me with a tiny stand at Sibella Court’s annual flea market at her new Society Inc Warehouse. I hadn’t been to Precinct 75, Mary Street, St. Peter’s for years. What a different atmosphere to leafy green Paddo, but with prior...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
We enjoyed her well. She began gently, unfurled slowly and built to a crescendo before the heatwave got to her a week or so ago, when she gasped for breath and entered a momentary state of ugliness! Now that these intoxicating days of heat followed by generous...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
A few days ago, we picked the very first cherries….about a dozen in all, with just a handful more on the way! I have a real hit & miss relationship with fruit trees. Indeed, I sometimes wonder why I bother at all….between the birds, fruit fly,...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About, Special Events, Delightful Discoveries
It was delightful to see Sally Campbell at Glenmore during last Friday’s fierce heat, carrying newly minted invitations to what is bound to be yet another fabulous pre-Christmas exhibition of her wonderful textiles at Shapiro Gallery in Queen Street Woollahra,...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
Is there anything more divine than attending a garden fair? Especially one in such a romantic setting as the National Trust’s Harper’s Mansion c.1835, at Berrima in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. While the weather did its very best to dampen...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog
What a day! We were blessed with the most glorious weather…clear skies, sunshine, and a light easterly breeze to keep us cool, to make petals dance, and to prompt our magnificent musicians to peg their sheet music to their stands as the rhapsodic notes they...
