Summer coming to an end

What a busy, busy time we've been having! I love this time of the year in Adelaide- there are so many wonderful things happening. We were out and about most of last week, and it's been nice to find ourselves having a quieter week this one, since we'll be doing school work again next week.

Last week, saw the Fringe parade part 2 happening. We all had lots of fun and the little people particularly attracted people's attention.

We went to three performances this year. As a family we went to see some taiko drummers and a circus act. Then Willow and Gabriel also got to see a ventriloquist. As part of our Fringe wanderings we met a lady called Ally, from Glasgow, who was selling jewellery at the Fringe. Yesterday she kindly came around and taught us to macrame jewellery, so we all have a macrame project happening now.

Gabriel's macrame bracelet


The macrame bracelet I made for Arden

Normally this time of the year, our festival outings end with a visit to Womadelaide, this year whilst we are going to Womadelaide on Saturday, the Come Out festival is happening at the end of March. Willow will be participating in the performace on Stari Most, which she is very excited about. After her performance in the opera last year, she has been looking forward to singing and performing some more.

Finally there were a few things I wanted the kids to complete before we start our school stuff next week. Gabriel has been finishing off some reading, and Willow has done well to finish her second sock. It was especially nice to see it done, as we had to unravel quite a bit of it a couple of weeks ago, after we realised that she had miscounted some stitches. She had made her sock very wide! But now they are finished and look beautiful!

Fringe Time

On Friday we will be participating in the Fringe parade again. Should be good fun in general, though I have been disappointed compared to last year, there was much more scope for the kids to express themselves creatively. Based off this years, experience so far, I wouldn't bother to organise a group. The flags are very uniform, the clothes are very uniform, and there is to be no banners put forth to identify various groups. Laughably, IMO, one of the themes for this year is anti-authoritarianism and Punk. We aren't even permitted, in theory, to choose which clothes we wear fit their colour scheme- red shirt, black/white pants, and red accessories. Possibly we should all turn up in purple, and point out part of the theme is punk.....

We've also bought some tickets for performances in this years Fringe- so we are looking forward to that. One is a taiko drumming performance, and another is a Circus performance. As usual we are also considering attending Womad.