Home alone

Yes, it is Monday morning and I am home alone and will be for a week. Hubby has gone to a conference in Wagga Wagga. Sometimes, if the conference is in an interesting place I tag along but this time I decided to stay home. Not saying that Wagga isn't interesting but......

The weekend finished last night with a barbeque at a house of one of hubby's collegues.  It was an old  redecorated house and it was very nice. I think we were the oldest there, there were lots of young couples with their first baby and the host and hostess are also expecting a baby any day soon. It brought back memories of when we had our first child and used to take him everywhere, to parties, pubs and restaurants etc. Luckily he was a very good sleeper, and if he was awake he was a happy baby.

When the second child came along she turned out to be a night owl so as long as you put her somewhere where she could observe what was going on she was good as gold so we continued bringing them along.

However, when the third child arrived it became a bit cumbersome to bring all three so we bit the bullet and got baby sitters. I  found it a little difficult to leave the kids with others in the beginning but realized it was silly especially since the kids seemed happy.

On Saturday we had to get out of the house because of the noise since they also drill on the weekend. (If you are a new reader here, let me just explain that we live across the street from a building site where they are excavating to build underground garages for a new apartment block)

We had a nice oyster and fish lunch at Mike's and then we went for a walk in the National park in Kurnell. I had wanted to visit the Kurnell art gallery that my art teacher runs together with some other local artists for some time, but it is only open on the week end, so I had never managed to do it. There are always things to do on the week end.

Anyway, after a visit to the gallery we went for a walk in the park. It is the point where Captain Cook arrived on the ship Endeavour and all along you can read about him and the other crew members who came with him.

One was a Swedish botanist, a follower of Linné, his name was Daniel Solander. He was based in the UK and worked together with another famous botanist called Sir Joseph Banks. Bank's name is quite noticeable here, ie Bankstown, and the flower Banksia etc. Solander has also given name to a part of the Kurnell park where you can do whale watching.

Until next time ......