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Post #91 Saturday 16 June 2018 – At home

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Saturday 16 June 2018

Well I was a sorry lot this week.  I had a bad flu and lay in bed almost the entire time.  I got up to do one massage (as I love doing massage), but expired again immediately after.  Everything else was cancelled for which I am very sorry.  The chances that I was contagious were high and there was no good risking other people as well.  It’s times like this past week I miss my kittens especially (now in kitten heaven), they were always such sweet company if you were laid low.

I did watch some television on my laptop though, propped up in bed.  As some of you know I don’t own an actual televsion.  I finally got to see the BBC series Wolf Hall which was every bit as excellent as I had heard (and I’d loved the book).  I also watched some of Anthony Bourdain’s travel and food diaries.    So it’s been a quiet week for me.  The only thing that didn’t slow down was the rate at which I am obliged to feed the lorikeets.  If they know I am home they come and peer in at the windows and glass doors.  They are absolutely relentless.

Your glamorous aunt

MG xx

Trying not to feel sorry for myself…

Post #90 Saturday 9 June 2018 – Fireworks fatigue

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Saturday 9 June 2018

Sometimes I get the luxury of a little fireworks fatigue. I see a lot of fireworks from the balcony.  There would not be a week that goes by without some fireworks near the City.   So would it be possible to have anticpatory Vivid fatigue?  I don’t even get to see much Vivid detail – the projections onto the Opera House are on to the West facing sails.  But I do see some of the sky lit up by the Vivid festival lights, and then there is the Bridge which gets heavy neon treatment, such as this aqua tone for example:

 

And this year, trying to avoid being a bit grouchy about the ever present bread and circuses feel of the Vivid festival, I took myself off to see some of the sights including a visit to Luna Park at Milson’s Point, where the ferris wheel was looking exceptionally pretty.

And visiting Luna Park reminded me of the short time I worked there – a while ago now – an impoverished student bravely manning the fairy floss cart in my little french navy uniform in all weather.  I didn’t do that job for long, but long enough to remember being reprimanded by management for wearing glasses (it was pre laser surgery so I was stilling wearing bookish specs), and for being too generous with the serves!

Your glamorous aunt

MG  xx

Post #86 Sunday 13 May 2018 – Potato farming and black lingerie

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♦ mature Sydney escort ♦

Sunday 13 May 2018

I actually wanted to make a post relating to the beach but it is such bad weather it doesn’t seem right.  So instead I am providing a short update on my balcony farming.

A while ago I posted a photo of the gift I had been given of a special bag to grow potatoes in, and then I did an update showing the potatoes I was about to plant.  Well weeks have passed and I did not look at my planted crop or water them or anything.  Then this, during the week, voila:

All pretty impressive for zero mother’s love.  I have now watered the orphans and as soon as I can I will put in some more dirt (which is what you are supposed to do steadily as they grow up in the bag).

So, it’s a short post from me this week and never the same without more black lingerie.  This one is a selfie that was out of focus but you get the general idea all the same lol.

 

Your glamorous aunt

MG xx

Post #85 Saturday 5 May 2018 – More scaffolding, black lingerie and furniture restoration

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Saturday 5 May 2018

I foreshadowed a bit of show and tell last time, so here it is, my scaffolding – assembled and work ready:

Here the scaffolding will be used to move the window while it is finally installed.   There are loads of other uses though – including interior painting Michelangelo style.  These shipping containers in the photo are the little cabins being fitted out as Base Camp, including four layers of insulation…

I have also kept up the pace with my local home improvement, and this is my chair (previously featured as work in progress after sanding), which has two coats of paint applied courtesy my workbench aka the dining room table:

And finally, because black lingerie always like to get into the picture, a selfie from yesterday:

Your glamorous aunt

MG xx

making hardware even more fun

 

Post #81 Saturday 7 April 2018 – Potato farming and furniture restoration

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Saturday 7 April 2018

We have progress in domestic affairs this week including potato farming and furniture restoration.

The potatoes some of you might remember from their first appearance way back on 14 January in Post #69.  I had been given a potato growing bag and put out some of my favourite potatoes so that they would strike shoots from their eyes (which they always do in the cupboard left long enough).  Well it took three months for them to strike decent shoots.  Although at first I thought perhaps this type just doesn’t shoot so easily,  on refkection it must have been because I left them outside when they would have done a lot better in a dark cupboard.  They are btw, Dutch cream (very tasty).

This was the original shot:

These are the update shots of the potatoes and the potatoes cut up in their potato sack ready to grow:

These may or may not grow, we will see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The furniture is a new undertaking but long overdue.  I have a “before” shot and a “mid way through” shot, having spend a very tedious amount of time sanding back the varnish.  I actually have two of these chairs but will take things one at a time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Further instalments will be made as things develop and you can approve the restoration (or not approve! as the case may be).

 

 

Your glamorous aunt MG xx
home improvements impresario

Post #78 Saturday 17th March 2018 – Back from Canberra

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Saturday 17 March 2018

I had the fastest drive home from Canberra than I’ve had in ages.   This notwithstanding there was a lot of road work – for which we all slowed down.  But as I regularly  let myself travel just above the speed limit, alas I am thinking this may be the reason for my fast trip even with roadwork and I am none too proud of it really.

It was a good stay and I collected visuals of another interesting piece of sculpture on an early evening walk near the hotel.  On reflection I could have done a better photo:

Here’s a better shot from the local Sculpture Walk Guide which I found on the net, together with a spiel about the scuplture’s name and significance, and its’ creator, all of which is quite appealing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being a bit frisky one Canberra morning I took an unsual selfie – the underboob and pyjamas shot, here to amuse 🙂 in the usual way:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can also say in recent news, I learnt how to make Steak Diane, thanks to an entrprising visitor at home, and that was all very good indeed.

 

Your glamorous aunt, MG xx
reporting on some of this week’s adventures.

Post #71 Sunday 28 January 2018 – Housekeeping

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Sunday 28 January 2018

The view from the balcony on Australia Day was good, with so many boats on the harbour and a deafening jet flyover.  There was also an entertaining morning with a pair of butcherbirds who were play chasing each other about in the big plane trees on Victoria Street (which you can see in the photo), and their constant melodic calling was very pleasant to hear.  There was a time when these birds were rare in the inner city and it is so nice they are back in good numbers.

On the whole it was a quiet week though and most of what I have to report in this Letter is housekeeping.

  • I bought some New Year new lingerie.  There will be photographs posted after a shoot scheduled for February.  Here is a selfie preview featuring my bottom:

  • The current schedule is back up on the home page so it’s easy to see what’s happening with my availability in a given coming week.  The schedule also includes confirmed dates for the next visit to Canberra – 15th and 16th March 2018 for the next visit.
  • Services and rates have been adjusted slightly so that a dinner date is up to 3 hours, the fee is the same as for a 2 hour session ($760) and you have to option of dinner at home rather than dinner out.  I find that dinner at home is a great way to relax and it’s private – no battling mediocre service in a restaurant, no potential for awkward moments with nosy conference delegates.  It can all be much easier and I can, for example, do a tasty french onion soup, a great eye fillet in the pan with soft red wine and we can have affogato for afters.  Don’t ask me to bake a cake though or a loaf of bread or even scones – my cooking doesn’t run to baking alas.
  • Available times for short notice bookings may be a bit constrained in future because I have made arrangements with a couple of colleagues for them to use my apartment as well.    So available time will get filled up with their bookings as well as mine.  None of this is fatal but it means planning ahead is a good idea if it can be done.

Yours at home

MG xx

Plus PS, I forgot to include my picture in spectacles which I posted on Twitter – still a bit sunburnt from the scuba diving (which even burnt my lips with all the reflected light off the water as we bobbed around on the surface getting instructions from the instructors).

It’s a different look and its pretty much me at home when you are not there 🙂

Post #69 Sunday 14 January 2018 – On the balcony and in the pool

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Sunday 14 January 2018

I am posting this letter a little behind schedule because I was very busy this weekend doing homework for an entry level scuba diving course.  The chance to do the course only emerged last week so I had very little time to complete all the online homework which turned out be to quite intense.  If I had a little more time to practise calcuating residual nitrogen “times” using the old tables (not the now standard dive planning software) I might have become a whiz!  As it was, I really only finished just in time for the first practical day –  from which I am now trying to recover.  My ears just would not equalise easily with underwater pressure changes once we got out of the pool and into the deeper ocean dives in the afternoon.  It meant the dives were slow to start.  So once I can get ahead with the threshhold physical challenges, there will be lots of new adventures to come with scuba diving.  I will post some photos of this episode once I have finished the course.

On the balcony we had a couple of developments in recent times.  The first is that I had to bring the composting worms – the Miriams, inside because the heatwave would have fried them.  They are happily set up in a corner of the lounge room, do not be alarmed there is absolutely no smell, they just carry on as before quietly eating my kitchen scraps.  The worm factory tutors I consulted a few years ago when I decided to get the worms told me that an established colony (such as mine is now) can be anywhere between 20 – 30,000 worms. Fancy that.  Very impressive number of urban wildlife units.

Also on the balcony we had the beginning of an experiment in potato farming.  I was recently given a special potato growing bag.  Here is a photo of the bag filled with earth to the first level, the illustrated instructions I am following, the potatos I want to use as the mother plants (once they develop little shoots from their “eyes”), together with a guest appearance from my pedicure and sarong.

I was separately given some seeds (medicinal herbs and two types of sunflower) by a girlfriend. Having followed her directions carefully, I am seeing early signs of successful germination… The plants inside the apartment grow beautifully, perhaps the ones now germinating on the balcony will too.  Stand by for a progress report in the coming months.

Signing off  MGxx scuba goddess 101

 

Post #68 Sunday 7 January 2018 – Rejuvenation grout and the New Year

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Sunday 7 January 2018

It’s the New Year and I don’t do resolutions so much as I find myself somehow embarking on various new projects, generally a bit domestic.  This New Year it seems to be Rejuvenation Grout.

Well I have bought the product and I am hoping it will transform the tired tiles of the bathroom into something a bit more, hmmm luminous may be :-), or just a bit whiter would be ok.

It’s been a nice start to the year otherwise.  I had a lovely unexpected visitor on Saturday afternoon.  I don’t often get magpies up on the 12th floor so it was a treat to hear that melodic gargling sort of song so close by.

I drove back from the country on Saturday and listened to the radio on the way – as a lot of you know, I love the radio.  On this trip the ABC was rebroadcasting a feed from the US National Public Radio (NPR) and I had a couple of treats.  One was a show on bluegrass which was an excuse for me to rummage around for favourite modern blues music when I got home.  Here is a link to a performer composer I really like and who is a great blues hero for souls who live rough.  It’s Chris Whitley with his melancholy guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI8ISl7xpg4

The other interesting program I caught was the end of was an interview with the columnist Michael Wolff who has just published Fire and Fury – a book on Donal Trump’s more or less accidental ascendancy and the pathology of his White House reign so far.  Perhaps I’ll make it to Abbey’s later in the week to see if I can pick up a copy, it is from all reports, an alarming and worthwhile read.

So, the year seems to have started quietly but hopefully, in your glamorous aunt’s happy domain

Wishing all the best to all of us for the coming year

MG xx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Post #63 Sunday 26 November 2017 – a lorikeet in love

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Sunday 26 November 2017

I had the pleasure of looking at some photos just recently that one of my excellent ostensible nephews had taken of the three parrots he is responsible for – all of them beautiful ringneck parrots.  In discussion about the birds, a consensus emerged, that I should devote a post to my own beautiful native parrots, the lorikeets.  It would be the right thing to do because they are a lively presence in my daily life, and while they have had a little walk on role in a couple of posts, I have never given them their very own post.

I looked through some of my photos and found way more than I need to illustrate my long and lively relationship with  these boisterous little guys.  So I have included just one snap taken about Christmas three years ago.  This pair were right inside the apartment eating at the table.  I posted the photo to facebook and a Czech girlfriend asked me, first, were they real and second, were they dangerous (they being Australian animals people always have to ask thank you Bill Bryson).   I told her lorikeets could be dangerous to your sleep if you are trying to sleep in lol.

Fortunately the lorikeets who visit me now are a lot less noisy than they used to be.  There was a period when they would arrive just after sunrise in waves of competing pairs to sit on the balcony and yell at one another.  That noisy yelling period passed though.  And now there are fewer pairs who visit.  Some of the territorial arguments must have been resolved.

I usually feed them outside, in their own plates, a mixture of warm water and dissolved honey.  I should feed them just once a day but often I will feed them two or three times – they ask so sweetly with little churring sounds.   They are nectar eaters so the spiky little beak is for tearing flowers and stems more than it is for cracking nuts.  When they feed you can see the nectar gathering tongue working hard –  a feathery but hard looking thing that dabs up the honey mixture.

Every season I see a new crop of baby lorikeets.  They always make a huge racket fluffed up, quivering outstretched wings, demanding to be fed beak to beak.

Every season also see some courtship rituals.  There is a particular dance which involves craning and arching the neck, bobbing rhythmically and slowly snaking around in front of the target female, punctuated by little sneezings.  This year I seemed to attract some courtship attention myself.    I recorded part of the episode, so you can see for yourself.

With warm regards as always
especially to those of my excellent ostensible nephews who are bird fanciers

your glamorous aunt MG xx