Week 104 — How is it November already
What the post title says!
Mum came to visit for Sebby's birthday last weekend (30 Oct — 1 Nov). She had bought Sebby a balance bike (which I nearly had to go pickup from Adelaide ;) but instead got to pick up from around the corner). Sebastian has been pretty obsessed with motorbikes ever since he heard and saw the neighbour's bike. Every time they're out and he hears it start, he wants to go out and have a look! Part of me thinks that would be a pretty cool and neighbourly thing to go and do, and watch them ride away. But another part of me — the part who has yet to meet this person, as they visit infrequently – is wary. Nonetheless, Sebby now has his own "motorbike", and has been learning to manoeuvre it around the house before we graduate to the uneven surfaces of the outside.
While visiting, we caught up for dinner / breakfast a few times. Once for Pizza with Clare and Sebby (I have never seen anyone as happy as a 2-year-old with a slice of pizza in each hand!). And then again for breakfast with my cousin at Dairy Road. There is a manmade river that flows through the space, with tunnels and benches alongside to sit in / at while enjoying the space and / or a coffee. Now, earlier I had said I hadn't seen someone as happy as a 2-year-old with a slice of pizza in each hand. However, that was not until I saw a 2-year-old wading through freezing cold water and splashing in puddles! Sebby only stopped to demolish a ham and cheese croissant, before heading off again to make waves - as it were.
This week, I officially started in a new role as a principal engineer in my area at work! The same week as a public holiday in Victoria (on a Tuesday) for the Melbourne Cup, so it was pretty quiet as far as weeks at Culture Amp go!
On Friday, Clare and I went out to Terra for dinner, where I swear there must always be just one waiter stressed out of their gourd, and the rest are chill AF. The food was amazing as always, as was the company <3! After dinner, we went out to check out a bar Clare had been wanting to try, only to be met with a "come back later, there's a function on now" sign. So we went next door instead and happened on some live music! The first band was a relatively new band (it seemed by them announcing their first ever song was going out tomorrow). Pulse was their name (and I have had trouble googling them, for now at least!). They were pretty good, and I'd be surprised if that was the last we heard of them! The main act was Woodhill, who had a sound similar to Dooms Children. After listening to them for a bit, we went over to the bar we wanted to try, only to find it largely empty (save for some stragglers, from what was clearly a work event 💀), so we stayed for 1 drink and called it!
On Saturday, inspired by some conversations we had had over dinner the night before, we went out to the Tuggeranong Arts Centre to see some work from the Canberra Spinners and Weavers. A celebration of being active for 60 years! Upstairs was an exhibition from the painter Nicola Dickson and ceramicist Malcolm Cooke. Both in a single room, complementing each other. Check their work out for yourself, and then just imagine the glory of seeing both in the same room (I was too enthralled to take photos of the room)!
Later that day we brought Sugar over to my place to have a wander around and see what she thought of the place, and then just worked on our own little projects and chatted while she sussed out the place. I started work on a hat for Sebby, and Clare embroidered some Christmas tree decorations over a cyanotype I made a while ago that kind resembled a Christmas tree 🥰
On Sunday Sebby and I did our weekly shop, and then pottered around the house, making art, playing games, and picking and drying some oregano from the yard. I chopped a few handfuls of sprigs, Sebby took them and laid them on the back steps, and then we took them inside to wash them in a tub. Sebby did all the washing and drying, and then I tied them up and we hung the bunch up outside together 🥰. Later that afternoon, we prepared a roast chicken together, and cleaned and chopped some potatoes for dinner. Then Clare came past and we had a lovely Sunday evening roast all together before getting ready for bed and reading some bedtime stories 🥰
