Except .... Margaret Perversi is coming to visit next week, all the way from Tasmania.
Margie & I used to go to tap dancing school together in Melbourne or should I say the 'Ecole du Claquette' with our wacky teacher Isabel who had had a sandbag fall on her from a great height at the Princess theatre years ago . We also cooked almost every recipe in 'Mastering the Art of French cooking' when we lived next door to each other in Queens Rd, Melbourne near the Mermaids Cave brothel...she was married then to Ron Brooks, children's book illustrator extaordinaire, (Bunyip at Berkeley's creek.... John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat), now she is with a poet......yay how many of them do you know??
I have also been asked to make a cope. My personal patron David Hill has asked me if I would be so kind as to work out how much it might cost for a gold cope with red velvet orphries and gold thread embroidery on the hood. Yippee. Nice job. Here are a few photos of David in the cope he wore to a wedding that we sang & rang at last Saturday.
Here as well is the stole I'm making for a lovely friend of David's for her ordination in October, it was very nice to be embroidering grapes & vines when we were surrounded by them in La Fosse.
The motor is out of the boat too although there isn't any photo because Richard's phone has packed up. He pulled it out today with Henry the Gigantor from the marina, without mishap. Although there was a major oil spill in the back of the van. Not quite Exon Valdez proportions but close. At least the van won't go rusty.
4 comments:
Your embroidery is gorgeous and what a great project to have making a cope.
I haven't checked in for a while. Glad too see you're safe and sound and back into all the boring stuff that make sup everyday life. I'm sure it won't be long nefore you're off galavanting around again.
Thanks guys. You've cheered me up on a bit of a grey day. xxxxxx
such lovely project my lovely sister.. Keep beavering away with the sewing needle .. Love sister suez.
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