Patterns

 I made mum and Kate a skirt pattern.  Both of them have been used, more than once.  Mission complete

Outing to the museum

One of the trips my good friend BP made back to Australia, we had an outing to the Science Works museum.  It was a great day out and the kids (and us) really enjoyed it.  

RP

 I have actually played in 3 or 4 different role play games in the last few years.  They are fun, I enjoy the dice rolling, I am pretty shit at the 'pretending to be someone else' part.  I am just too self conscious.  I should try and get over that.  Still its fun, I'll jump in again when the opportunity arises.

does this count?

 Techincally, I didn't finish the quite, but it is finished.  I asked my good buddy Fiona to finish it, I had done all the sewing/piecing, and I really enjoyed that, but I wasn't enjoying the quilting part.  Fiona on the other had loves that part and is really good at it.  I think it was a good compromise.  It looks fantastic.

NZ x2

Since the long hiatus, I have actually been to NZ twice, once to each island.

Feb 2013 was north island (another active volcano!) and a shit tonne of caches.  It was the first major time my hip really ruined a trip for me.  There was a lot of things we couldn't do cos I was in so much pain.  I needed drugs to do pretty much and thing and there were things we had to take off the list all together cos of how much pain I was in.  Was still a fun time, but my hip was not any fun at all.

December/Jan 2018 was the south island NZ trip.  A trip mainly for Neil's birthday, so there was a lot of steam stuff and a few caches.  A helicopter ride.  My first test of new hip, in that respect, this trip was the opposite of the last one, 5 years previously.  I was so pleased with how much I could do and the options being able to walk around gave the trip.  It was great!

Its a lemon

 Moving house here to Ballarat, I finally got the location to plant a lemon tree.  I bought a dwarf lemon, so it won't grow too big and I can't reach the top.  Its in the front yard, near the tap, so its easy to water.  No lemons yep, but its only been there 12 months.  No rush :) 

Course complete

 I enjoyed the pattern drafting course and learnt many things.  I haven't put the learnings in to action as much as I would have liked, but I have made a few very lovely items.  My favourite being my woolen coat.

Volcano trip

 Back in winter 2015, we left cold old Melbourne for warmer climb.  We went to Vanuatu, Fiji and Hawaii.  Two of the three of these included live volanos.  Super happy with the trip, was exhausting, included many cocktails and many amazing sites. 

Long time, no update

So its been a massively long time since I did an update here, but recently I had cause to take a look at this and noticed that, even though I haven't actively been working on this for (omg) 13 years, I have actually completed more of these tasks.  So here come some update posts.