Old sink, Cockatoo Island
The plans for our long weekend changed when our car was taken away on the back of a tow truck. It had been serviced and had a clutch replaced, and we only picked it up on Friday evening, so it was very disappointing to see it on the back of a tow truck on Saturday morning. Luckily it doesn’t appear to have been a difficult thing to fix, something wasn’t put back together correctly, but it did affect our weekend plans.
So, instead of going to Mt. Tomah on Sunday as planned, we had to stay around Sydney. We took the ferry to Cockatoo Island with Aurelie and Nico, and had a picnic lunch before taking a 2 hour tour of the island. It was a fascinating place, with a convict and ship building/repair history. I was rather amused by all the talk of ghosts from our tour guide. She said she was a ghost hunter and that there had been some sightings on the island, but I just can’t believe that sort of thing. Call me an unbeliever if you will. 🙂
After the tour we took the ferry back to Darling Harbour where there was a Brazilian festival over the weekend. I think it was with great delight that the boys watched the dancers with feathers in their hair and very skimpy bikini-like sparkly outfits on! They were good, though, and I love the music. We also watched some dancers from other south American countries and listened to a Columbian group singing and playing their instruments for a while.
We ended up that evening at Aurelie and Nico’s flat for dinner. We’d been invited several times but between us we had just never found a good time. So it was great to have the evening with them. Unfortunately it had been a hot and sunny day, Andrew’s sunglasses were in the car when it was tows, and neither of us remembered a hat for the day. So Andrew wasn’t really feeling so well and we left early.
Monday I spent a lot of the day in my ‘garden’, which consists of some large tubs filled with potting mix on our balcony. I have a worm farm and it was time to clean it out as it was a bit full, so by the time I’d done that and put half the worm castings in each of the tubs, last year’s potting mix looked like a lovely nutritious mix. I planted one tub with only dwarf bean seeds. The other tub got basil, radish and sping onion seeds. I also plan to replenish my dwindling herb supplies from seeds, so we put some seed raising mixture into old egg containers and planted seeds in them. I planted some thyme, oregano and sage seeds, while Andrew planted chilli seeds. Hopefully they will grow and we get around to planting them out this time (last time we grew some of these chilli seeds we never planted them in pots and they died). I just hope that all the new seedlings will survive 3 days without attention in a couple of weeks when we are down in Melbourne.
