Week 103 — knitting, gardening, music, 'n' more
Our final long weekend of the year made this week a short week, but a packed and delightful weekend.
On Tuesday Clare and I went and saw a film as part of the Italian Film Festival at Palace Electric "Life is Life". A film about a big business trying to relocate a man from his generational home in Sardinia. It was fun to be able to recognise a handful of words and 1 or 2 phrases! Though, part way through, I definitely found myself questioning my beliefs as I was siding with the big business for bringing jobs to an otherwise struggling village. But quickly snapped out of that! 4/5 was a great film, amazing location, some good laughs and a heartwarming story.
On Saturday it was bucketing down with rain — to the point where it was hard to hear anything in the car. Sebby and I did our shop at the Westfield this week to avoid the run between the carpark and our usual shops. We've been doing some toilet training and after a brief stop for a baby chino, Sebby asked to go to the toilet — which was so so good! Thankfully the parents room at the Westfield is pretty amazing. So we had a quick stop to stare at Bluey on the way out :)
In the afternoon we went and visited Clare. Sebby bolted straight in the door and immediately said hi to Sugar — laying on the ground and staring into her eyes 😻. Then we spent the afternoon playing, gardening, putting up the Christmas tree (yay!), and then having dinner together 🥰 After dinner we watched more of the storm roll past (complete with thunder and lightning!). It was such a lovely way to spend the afternoon and evening together ❤️. After our bath I was putting Sebby to bed and he kept asking for more lightning — explaining why there was no more lightning was how he drifted off for the night.
On Sunday afternoon Clare, one of Clare's friends and I went to a Crafty Cinema screening of Miss Congeniality. I must have seen that movie a heap of times growing up, but completely forgot the weird undertones of sexism and homophobia — or wasn't as aware of them. Was still a fun movie, and a fun time sitting in a room full of crafters all working on something together! I made a bunch of progress on my beanie — though Clare unfortunately found a tangle in her yarn so spent the majority of the time working through that!
Later that afternoon, we want to Ming's for dinner and then off to NightFest to watch The Temper Trap! It was such a lovely evening! The weather was perfect, the vibes were prefect, and the music was perfect! It was so nice seeing some live music after a long time and dancing to some upbeat tunes! I was saying to Clare shortly after, that I hadn't listened to The Temper Trap intentionally for years! Not since Thicker than Thieves came out — but for some reason got back on to them a few weeks ago after their new album came out and had been listening to a bunch of their old stuff on repeat. Was a total surprise that they were playing NightFest, so pretty stoked we could get out to see them 🥰
Monday was a public holiday, for Labour, or something. So we did 0 Labour, in honour. We started the day with a coffee and breakfast at Eddie's Organics — a really cute and perfectly styled cafe in Pearce. The food, coffee and playlist were also incredible. We did a bit of knitting while finishing our breakfast, and then took off to the NLA.
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It was still pretty gloomy after the storms over the weekend, so we had to stick to indoorsy things. Checking out the museum and bookshop at the NLA, and a quick knitting break before walking down to OPH to see the Wisteria that has come out in an amazing bloom!
Then some more knitting at home, where I managed to finish my beanie (and will post separately about that!) But I am so happy to have finished it and so proud that I managed to get through a whole first project — and incredibly grateful for Clare's guidance, teachings and encouragement to finish it!
I have since blocked it and the form is much more like a beanie!
