Flowers on Friday

as promised mostly just photos of the abundance around us this Spring...the passionfruit and climbing rose have from this...

to this...

  Lobelia's blue flowers are stunning, my favourite colour in fact...

one of the climbing roses...

sweet peas in a hanging basket, they quickly produce seed pods which I'll save for next year...

one of the reasons celery is grown for it's stalks and not these teeny tiny flowers...they will go to seed and spread around the garden for future use...

this sweetpea flower is two-tone...

  view from the house...

Dear Son made this trolley for us to carry heavy loads from the car to the house, any of our neighbours may use it too...

miniature rose bush and rosemary...

I went into Perth on Monday for the last of Dad's paperwork...there was a selection of decorated polystyrene cows around the city and I came across these three on my travels...

Such fun but I didn't have time to search out the others because I was too excited to find a new food stall at the Carillon selling Brazilian food...I bought feijoada for Joe as I know he loves it!

Off shopping now with Dad, B and Charlie, 36C is forecast so we won't want to be out too long.
Happy weekend to you all,
Sue x

Keeping Going

After my last sad post I am happy to share some nice photos with you and also to thank every-one for their loving support and messages.

On October 30th Priscilla's baby boy, Kullen, was delivered by c-section after a very long labour that was going nowhere because of the second tumour blocking his way...he weighed 4 lbs and was breathing on his own after a day or two and they both went home shortly afterwards. After 4 weeks in hospital Priscilla and Will were thrilled to be going home at last...

moved to a 'big boy's bed'...

  with Daddy...

ready for home...

Chemo started again for Priscilla yesterday with the usual nausea and fatigue but she's resting in bed and being well cared for. As her milk will be unsuitable for Kullen a donor has come forward to gift her own milk for him which is such a wonderful offer and will be the next best thing to his Mama's milk.

Here in the west Charlie(6 mos) continues to delight us all with his character...up at 5.30am for piano practice today...

loving 'solid foods' now, tenderly made at home by his awesome Mum...B made this hilarious collage, we love his pumpkin face...

Dad has tripped and hurt his back, I fell outside the post office and am grazed and bruised but Joe has topped that! Mandy called him an over-achiever...he had a mini stroke in September which is still causing double vision and this week he added conjunctivitis to his list of ailments...you just have to laugh at times!

I been enjoying lots of knitting and even some cross-stitch work recently as well as lots of Christmas planning and gardening. Being Spring the flowers are in abundance all around us, I'll do a separate post as there are so many photographs.

This is another 10-stitch blanket I am doing, quite easy once you work out how it develops, I'm using 8 ply acrylic on 5mm needles for a softer drape...

If you are a member of ravelry you can see more of Frankie Brown's patterns here

So there is my update, I will sort out the garden pics shortly but wish you all a very happy day today where-ever you are and what-ever you are doing,
Love Sue