Well I think I’m going to hang up my needle. After visiting the Adelaide Show at the weekend and seeing all the quilts and embroidery on display I was overwhelmed. Then to cap it all we saw a catwalk display of the most stunning theatrical costumes made by NZ fashion designer and quilter extraordinaire, Jenny Gillies. You should google her, quite a fascinating lady.

Oh My God, I have never seen anything like it. 100 costumes, all depicting flowers went down the runway on the most beautiful dancers. Irises, dahlias, roses, wattle blossom, strawberries, in the most precise detail and all in sumptuous materials.

I came home and looked at my little project…and turned to drink…well a glass of pink bubbly anyway.

The show was all a country show should be. Livestock, competitions of obscure vegetables, HOW do they choose one tray of barley against another, or a plump courgette over another???? Bewildering stuff…no doubt the judges have a quick tipple first, just to numb the senses.

I was goggle eyed seeing a young man flanked by police and security guards being ushered out of the exhibition hall, and exchanged questioning knowing nods with other members of the crowd, until someone finally put us out of our curiosity misery, and shared the tit bit… from ‘Home and Away’ aaaah! A mini celebrity!

Had a giggle at the newspaper when I got home from the fair… a kangaroo had smashed through a car windscreen and went straight into the front passenger seat as a man drove along a suburban Melbourne street. The man hurried out of the car, leaving behind a bewildered roo. The man was treated for cuts and grazes by an ambulance crew, and the kangaroo was still sitting in the front passenger seat whilst all this was going on. Poor Skippy!

Today I had my hair cut by a guy called Romeo! Looks good! Now off to make Leek tarte tatin.