i really like the other one. x.
1/23/05
fitzroy townhall 11th january 2005
family photo
drew,josh,kate,matt,keely,fleischy,lydia,don,paul,stef..
anna, dell & kylee at the front
brooke just snuck out on good behavior...
drew,josh,kate,matt,keely,fleischy,lydia,don,paul,stef..
anna, dell & kylee at the front
brooke just snuck out on good behavior...
1/21/05
big day
today I picked two buckets of jaboticabas, they’re tropical tree grapes. sweet. they grow up the trunk of the tree, so you have to climb right into the tree to pick them. then I picked a bucket of cherry guavas. there are lots of spiders in the tree. uggghhh. then I made jelly. cherry guava jelly is delicious.
I also picked passionfruit, sweetcorn, yellow sapote’s, pumpkin, macadamia nuts, cherry tomatoes, bush lemons, oranges, & tea. lots of spiders in the tea too.
mum and dad left this morning and my grandma and her dog lou came to visit me for the weekend. I didn’t go anywhere, it’s been pouring all day, they say it’s the cyclone building in the gulf.
grandma dell is a former concert pianist and she is on holiday but she played the piano a lot today. my mum has a huge sheet music collection, so she just went through and site read different pieces. it sounded beautiful. makes me wish I was able to remember some of what I learned.
nope. I’m practicing. no one has to listen to it here.
i did some drawing, show you soon, kate. then I cooked a chocolate cake for my boys. like I said, big day.
I also picked passionfruit, sweetcorn, yellow sapote’s, pumpkin, macadamia nuts, cherry tomatoes, bush lemons, oranges, & tea. lots of spiders in the tea too.
mum and dad left this morning and my grandma and her dog lou came to visit me for the weekend. I didn’t go anywhere, it’s been pouring all day, they say it’s the cyclone building in the gulf.
grandma dell is a former concert pianist and she is on holiday but she played the piano a lot today. my mum has a huge sheet music collection, so she just went through and site read different pieces. it sounded beautiful. makes me wish I was able to remember some of what I learned.
nope. I’m practicing. no one has to listen to it here.
i did some drawing, show you soon, kate. then I cooked a chocolate cake for my boys. like I said, big day.
ponies
go kart racing with my boys. they made me have a go cause they wanted to beat me. nup. I got fastest lap time for a girl, and fifth fastest for the day. beat em both. reminded me of my days as a motorbike riding teenager, jumps, drags, falling off, rolling four wheelers and burnouts… I’m much more sedate now. scared of hurting my bones. they’re lucky they weren’t racing me ten years ago… I got a big crush on the Japanese formula one driving instructor in his red overalls. I’ll post a photo if my connection ever lets me.
next week it’s ponies. get those jodphurs out. and don't fear, i will find a way to post some pictures soon.
next week it’s ponies. get those jodphurs out. and don't fear, i will find a way to post some pictures soon.
1/19/05
HEALTH CAMP AHOY
here I am. it's unbelievably pretty here. and the air is so fresh it hurts my lungs. it's about perfect summer weather. hot in the day, building up to the occasional monsoonal storm in the afternoon evening. which means amazing purple skies and lightning and thunder. which gets me all exited in a electric kind of way.
perfect swimming weather and thus far I do every day. in the clean river which flows through the property. I walk down the hill, look at the trees and swim. into the rapids for as long as I feel like. then I hop out and sit on the warm rocks and look at the sky. then I get back in the water and swim some more. then I walk up the hill and have some lunch. all homemade homegrown organic food.
then after lunch I do some work. make something, sew something, write something, work something out or today i planted some trees. we are reforesting a patch of the riverbank... hmmmm. then I go for a walk. either down the road to visit my country friend mike. or down the forest to look for animals and more watersports or up the hill to talk to my lovely lifelong neighbours, reet and john.
did I mention I'm in the house that my dad built. it's all timber harvested from the property and sawn up and built into the house I grew up in. I like it. lovely timber walls and floors. we have a combustion stove that also heats the water so you must light the fire everyday to make hot water. this was my job all through high school. chop wood and light the fire. I have very strong arms from all the wood chopping & I'm good at lighting fires. I think mum and dad gave me this job to curb my arsonist firebug tendencies and, the clever monkeys, I think it worked. I'm fire smart.
I'm also a little bored. so if you feel for me. can you do something for me. make me a mix tape. compilation cd. a letter. a picture. and send it to me.
dell
MSI 1567
upper barron
qld 4883
I promise I'll send you something in return.
yours in health already. x.
perfect swimming weather and thus far I do every day. in the clean river which flows through the property. I walk down the hill, look at the trees and swim. into the rapids for as long as I feel like. then I hop out and sit on the warm rocks and look at the sky. then I get back in the water and swim some more. then I walk up the hill and have some lunch. all homemade homegrown organic food.
then after lunch I do some work. make something, sew something, write something, work something out or today i planted some trees. we are reforesting a patch of the riverbank... hmmmm. then I go for a walk. either down the road to visit my country friend mike. or down the forest to look for animals and more watersports or up the hill to talk to my lovely lifelong neighbours, reet and john.
did I mention I'm in the house that my dad built. it's all timber harvested from the property and sawn up and built into the house I grew up in. I like it. lovely timber walls and floors. we have a combustion stove that also heats the water so you must light the fire everyday to make hot water. this was my job all through high school. chop wood and light the fire. I have very strong arms from all the wood chopping & I'm good at lighting fires. I think mum and dad gave me this job to curb my arsonist firebug tendencies and, the clever monkeys, I think it worked. I'm fire smart.
I'm also a little bored. so if you feel for me. can you do something for me. make me a mix tape. compilation cd. a letter. a picture. and send it to me.
dell
MSI 1567
upper barron
qld 4883
I promise I'll send you something in return.
yours in health already. x.
1/16/05
LAST DAYS boating bbqs & goodbyes
tuesday night last supper at the napier. lots of people wearing garage sale produce. yay. family photos on the steps of Fitzroy town hall, thanks to lovely lisa from the pub for photographing us on her break.
wednesday was the boating day. rendevous on greeves street for a afternoon of sailing. little yella drove us to the market for picnic items and champagne. then to the boathouse to recover the ‘queen of the chandler’, moored on the banks of the lovely yarra. we had a successful launch. got the music playing. pulled out the parasols. nobody fell in and got liver disease. a success all round.
bbq at cass’s. tired. sat in the pool. sighed a bit. slept. met up with some people for goodbyes. there was a few tears.
off to the airport but had the real last supper at laksa king *OH MY GOD IT WAS GOOD* in Flemington with the most lovely, kate von airport de la matthews. got there early to pay large amounts for excess baggage and drink beer. got caught by the fuzz trying to take pictures of them drinking at the bar, 3 severe cases of hungry fat police bums... 'i hope i'm not in those photos' fat lady cop. 'nope' me showing one of the many pictures of me on my camera. hah! hungry bum spotting.
then gave kate a last minute haircut to remember me by. so if she sneers a bit when you mention my name… don’t believe her. she still loves me. and tell her the haircut is good. I liked it. might need a little more work though I had to run off half way through. plane to catch.
I miss you.
wednesday was the boating day. rendevous on greeves street for a afternoon of sailing. little yella drove us to the market for picnic items and champagne. then to the boathouse to recover the ‘queen of the chandler’, moored on the banks of the lovely yarra. we had a successful launch. got the music playing. pulled out the parasols. nobody fell in and got liver disease. a success all round.
bbq at cass’s. tired. sat in the pool. sighed a bit. slept. met up with some people for goodbyes. there was a few tears.
off to the airport but had the real last supper at laksa king *OH MY GOD IT WAS GOOD* in Flemington with the most lovely, kate von airport de la matthews. got there early to pay large amounts for excess baggage and drink beer. got caught by the fuzz trying to take pictures of them drinking at the bar, 3 severe cases of hungry fat police bums... 'i hope i'm not in those photos' fat lady cop. 'nope' me showing one of the many pictures of me on my camera. hah! hungry bum spotting.
then gave kate a last minute haircut to remember me by. so if she sneers a bit when you mention my name… don’t believe her. she still loves me. and tell her the haircut is good. I liked it. might need a little more work though I had to run off half way through. plane to catch.
I miss you.
garage sale of the century
my birthday was good. but I woke up after less than two hours of sleep. HOLY GOD. garage sale.
kate made signs, I collected armloads and armloads and armloads of clothes, carried all the furniture out onto the street. went for a walk through the neighbourhood putting up signs. scared and a little shaky. mmmmmm. out in two days. house full of party filth and everything I own… clean and vacant by Monday. dell…
kate was trying clothes on, I was trying to find everything I could abandon to drag out onto the streets. kade came by then emma Fleishmann and drew and paul and Lydia and pat and don & liz & brooke and all bought stuff and helped me out with packing, cleaning and selling. youse guys are amazing. couldn’t have done it without you. so it started the three day garage sale party and it was fun. and talk about fine looking. best looking garage sale eva.
we played street sports like shoe platonk. warehouse wall basketball and who can bowl over the small plastic animals with a large bouncy basketball. then we all dressed up in my clothes. it was a cold Melbourne summer night. tired drunk and hungry. a little dazed. dinner at ‘chois’. and as we walked down the street we were laughing at ourselves and everyone on Brunswick street looking at us strangely. kate as the green bag lady, drew in my snowflake jumper, paul in sergeant pepper cashmere cardie. we got there and were seated at a white tablecloth and proceeded to spill a whole glass of red wine across it first thing. who’d have thought it.
Sunday was more of the same. loads of stuff to deliver. a bit of styling at kades place. ie. the kitchen and back yard full of hastily packed boxes and sad looking pot plants. more helpers. same helpers again. more sales. more cleaning. more activities. and kade bought the bbq over and we fed the troupes. stef and viv took over the selling. think the profits were drunk in cases of coopers. about 15 of them.
a few special mentions…
kate best customer and most entertaining costume changes.
kade activities manager and best all rounder, everydayer.
drew moral support beer drinker also good everydayer though less productive.
Donald Russell best ute and bbq driver.
Emma Fleischmann must get a prize too, actually many prizes…
at about 7 on Sunday kade convinced the remainder of us. Fleishmann and drew and me that we need one motivational shot of jagermeister. seven jager’s and seven jugs of beer later we threw in the towel. and I slept on a pile of cardboard boxes (how romantic) in the loungeroom (after a 3 am text message to my landlord to see if we could meet in the afternoon instead of the early morning).
anyway its all ok. with a few loads to the op shop. and a day out driving the last things around the neighbourhood in don’s ute with kade and kate. having gelato, and Lebanese pizza’s in preston and spotting hungry bums and gunts. nother (sic) new BLACK REBEL ACTIVITES CLUB activity. fun for all the family.
and I got my bond back. thank you everyone who helped me. I love you all.
kate made signs, I collected armloads and armloads and armloads of clothes, carried all the furniture out onto the street. went for a walk through the neighbourhood putting up signs. scared and a little shaky. mmmmmm. out in two days. house full of party filth and everything I own… clean and vacant by Monday. dell…
kate was trying clothes on, I was trying to find everything I could abandon to drag out onto the streets. kade came by then emma Fleishmann and drew and paul and Lydia and pat and don & liz & brooke and all bought stuff and helped me out with packing, cleaning and selling. youse guys are amazing. couldn’t have done it without you. so it started the three day garage sale party and it was fun. and talk about fine looking. best looking garage sale eva.
we played street sports like shoe platonk. warehouse wall basketball and who can bowl over the small plastic animals with a large bouncy basketball. then we all dressed up in my clothes. it was a cold Melbourne summer night. tired drunk and hungry. a little dazed. dinner at ‘chois’. and as we walked down the street we were laughing at ourselves and everyone on Brunswick street looking at us strangely. kate as the green bag lady, drew in my snowflake jumper, paul in sergeant pepper cashmere cardie. we got there and were seated at a white tablecloth and proceeded to spill a whole glass of red wine across it first thing. who’d have thought it.
Sunday was more of the same. loads of stuff to deliver. a bit of styling at kades place. ie. the kitchen and back yard full of hastily packed boxes and sad looking pot plants. more helpers. same helpers again. more sales. more cleaning. more activities. and kade bought the bbq over and we fed the troupes. stef and viv took over the selling. think the profits were drunk in cases of coopers. about 15 of them.
a few special mentions…
kate best customer and most entertaining costume changes.
kade activities manager and best all rounder, everydayer.
drew moral support beer drinker also good everydayer though less productive.
Donald Russell best ute and bbq driver.
Emma Fleischmann must get a prize too, actually many prizes…
at about 7 on Sunday kade convinced the remainder of us. Fleishmann and drew and me that we need one motivational shot of jagermeister. seven jager’s and seven jugs of beer later we threw in the towel. and I slept on a pile of cardboard boxes (how romantic) in the loungeroom (after a 3 am text message to my landlord to see if we could meet in the afternoon instead of the early morning).
anyway its all ok. with a few loads to the op shop. and a day out driving the last things around the neighbourhood in don’s ute with kade and kate. having gelato, and Lebanese pizza’s in preston and spotting hungry bums and gunts. nother (sic) new BLACK REBEL ACTIVITES CLUB activity. fun for all the family.
and I got my bond back. thank you everyone who helped me. I love you all.
the lovely kate von ariport de la matthews
who gets cross with me for always putting funny pictures of her up. 'it's in context' i say & methinks she always looks good. but this is to show you all how lovely she is, and what she looks like when she thinks of vegetables. very nice hey. and a very well dressed girl too. i hear she's got a nice new haircut too.
1/7/05
woooooohooooooo
it's my birthday. and i'm happy. i'm also 27. getting big huh... shit. yesterday greg and simon came and stole me away from my house packing (well my bed, who am i fooling...) and took me out for lunch to a pub in st leonards. nice view. nice drive. nice boys.
i got back and went back to bed. ha.
then kylee came over and we ate dumplings. yay dumplings! then we had a nap. then kate came over and we took pictures of me as super dell.. DA DADA!
this makes me SO happy. yes simple things i know... but i never pretended to be anything more. or maybe i did. then we went out to ding dong to see sweet young james play with the rumours. oh what a good looking band. we had alterior motives though and a score to settle.
see i'm selling everything and there has been a little competion over some of my belongings. kate and kylee both want my scrabble board. i insisted the only way to decide it was with a dance off. so we were there to dance. the early bands were not that good to dance to but if you know me you'll know that i will persevere. where most would know better than to go.
so we danced. and when you just can't dance the next best thing is to pose. now a place like ding dong is FULL of posers. but i mean really pose. drop to the floor with head in hands poses. 'come fight me, bitch' poses (best kept amongst the inner circle) ooops i dropped my books poses. you get me. so we were posing. giving repsect for the good ones and dissin' the bad. we made a few posy friends too. now this is a sport we developed as part of the BLACK REBEL ACTIVITIES CLUB. and we like to keep up the practise. specially when youre needing to dance and the music just won't give it up.
anyways. the rumours came on, kylee left (work) & kate and i really danced. and it was fun. and silly. then it was my birthday. and James wished me happy birthday in the sweetest way. and i blushed. whats new? and we danced more. and posed more. then i had to go home cause i had to work this morning too. but first one must uphold a tradition. birthday photo booth photos. we made number 27. not so easy. got it back to front the first time. and you need a helper when you're in the double digits. serious body spelling business. uh huh. just try it yourselves. and don't tell me you cant see it, it's quite clear really...
now i should pretend to pack up my house again, and clean up cause i'm having a party. come if you wanna. HA.
there will be dance off's. it's a promise.
oh and this's greg. ah how sweet.
i got back and went back to bed. ha.
then kylee came over and we ate dumplings. yay dumplings! then we had a nap. then kate came over and we took pictures of me as super dell.. DA DADA!
this makes me SO happy. yes simple things i know... but i never pretended to be anything more. or maybe i did. then we went out to ding dong to see sweet young james play with the rumours. oh what a good looking band. we had alterior motives though and a score to settle.
see i'm selling everything and there has been a little competion over some of my belongings. kate and kylee both want my scrabble board. i insisted the only way to decide it was with a dance off. so we were there to dance. the early bands were not that good to dance to but if you know me you'll know that i will persevere. where most would know better than to go.
so we danced. and when you just can't dance the next best thing is to pose. now a place like ding dong is FULL of posers. but i mean really pose. drop to the floor with head in hands poses. 'come fight me, bitch' poses (best kept amongst the inner circle) ooops i dropped my books poses. you get me. so we were posing. giving repsect for the good ones and dissin' the bad. we made a few posy friends too. now this is a sport we developed as part of the BLACK REBEL ACTIVITIES CLUB. and we like to keep up the practise. specially when youre needing to dance and the music just won't give it up.
anyways. the rumours came on, kylee left (work) & kate and i really danced. and it was fun. and silly. then it was my birthday. and James wished me happy birthday in the sweetest way. and i blushed. whats new? and we danced more. and posed more. then i had to go home cause i had to work this morning too. but first one must uphold a tradition. birthday photo booth photos. we made number 27. not so easy. got it back to front the first time. and you need a helper when you're in the double digits. serious body spelling business. uh huh. just try it yourselves. and don't tell me you cant see it, it's quite clear really...
now i should pretend to pack up my house again, and clean up cause i'm having a party. come if you wanna. HA.
there will be dance off's. it's a promise.
oh and this's greg. ah how sweet.
1/4/05
to all my people in the world happy 2005
hope y'all had a marvelous time. i did.
"oh the cd coverness of it all"
now if my new year's celebration is any indication this year'll be acted out in great new places with great new people, being overly enthusiastic, overly active, collecting bruises and new loves. my new year was filled with fun, beaches, blood, bloody mary's, bad dancing, lot's of it, good dancing, activities galore, table tennis tournaments, foozeball, boules, coites, basketball, night swimming, headstands, backflips and lots of good wholesome fun.
kate and i & little yella drove down to phillip island, to catherine's holiday house, an amazing old schoolhouse with room for many to sleep and celebrate with many games to play and amazing beaches nearby. *sigh*
thank you kate for coming with me, putting up with me... i love you and you know it. & you love me... even if sometimes you have to look at me like this... sorry about the sore feet. too much enthusiasm. again.
yes i know what i'm like. oh dear.
"sit down.. please dell"
Kade 'legs' Macdonald, for inviting me. and for days of entertainment. activities officer for the most active party since i don't know when. i didn't count the costume changes, though there were lots of them, the cravat and short shorts was a favourite, although i have to have a soft spot for the short shorts and gumboots which were your dell outfit, scary. and lots of fun, you're very good at it. so lots of love.
thank you beautiful catherine for having us and hosting a fantastic party.
respect to a fine lady who drives big trucks, who looks HOT in gumboots and mends wounds and was almost on the floor with me everytime and you know i'm always there, respect... then when we're all tired provides hours of interpretive dance entertainment. padre and jesus where lucky to know you. oh... and for actually being able to do the flips and cartwheels kade and i were attempting...
mmmmmmnnn "vodka garlic watermelon" tasty.
corey. hope the foots feeling better darlin, lovely to hang out with you and dance to yr tunes. and take photos of yr guts spillin out on the deck. hope to do it again sometime. not the gut's part, or the blood, though i do like the photos. is that bad?
just a reminder we were all drinkin bloody marys when this was happening...
and more battlescars. for luke this time... whos responsible?
sunny days, and windy days.
and on that lighter note, to the rest of youse, it was great to spend some time with youse. all the best. now dear people...
annie my dear, hope you have a wonderful 2005, no doubt you started it in style in paris. was thinking of you all weekend, and you know my big smile and heart is with you everywhere. love you most classy lady.
same goes to you simon, miss you dearly but methinks it'll be good to see you soon.
rachael. what can i say laaaaahhhhhhvvvvve youse scuzzy malaka. so good to talk to you christmas. & good luck with icthyfan or what's his name...
andrea and cameron, no doubt youre all blissed out on love and freakin spiriruality, or delhi belly, either way, love you and miss you and hope to catch up sometime not too far away, and i'm still not dead yet ang. and i'm very glad to hear that you aren't either. keep safe. dellie belly.
and everyone else, you know i love you, hope to see some of you this week before i pack it all in. otherwise i guess i'll hunt you down sometime, somewhere cause you know i do that. goddamn country girl that i am. probly bring you the homemade chutney too. til then most sauce. i mean love.
"oh the cd coverness of it all"
now if my new year's celebration is any indication this year'll be acted out in great new places with great new people, being overly enthusiastic, overly active, collecting bruises and new loves. my new year was filled with fun, beaches, blood, bloody mary's, bad dancing, lot's of it, good dancing, activities galore, table tennis tournaments, foozeball, boules, coites, basketball, night swimming, headstands, backflips and lots of good wholesome fun.
kate and i & little yella drove down to phillip island, to catherine's holiday house, an amazing old schoolhouse with room for many to sleep and celebrate with many games to play and amazing beaches nearby. *sigh*
thank you kate for coming with me, putting up with me... i love you and you know it. & you love me... even if sometimes you have to look at me like this... sorry about the sore feet. too much enthusiasm. again.
yes i know what i'm like. oh dear.
"sit down.. please dell"
Kade 'legs' Macdonald, for inviting me. and for days of entertainment. activities officer for the most active party since i don't know when. i didn't count the costume changes, though there were lots of them, the cravat and short shorts was a favourite, although i have to have a soft spot for the short shorts and gumboots which were your dell outfit, scary. and lots of fun, you're very good at it. so lots of love.
thank you beautiful catherine for having us and hosting a fantastic party.
respect to a fine lady who drives big trucks, who looks HOT in gumboots and mends wounds and was almost on the floor with me everytime and you know i'm always there, respect... then when we're all tired provides hours of interpretive dance entertainment. padre and jesus where lucky to know you. oh... and for actually being able to do the flips and cartwheels kade and i were attempting...
mmmmmmnnn "vodka garlic watermelon" tasty.
corey. hope the foots feeling better darlin, lovely to hang out with you and dance to yr tunes. and take photos of yr guts spillin out on the deck. hope to do it again sometime. not the gut's part, or the blood, though i do like the photos. is that bad?
just a reminder we were all drinkin bloody marys when this was happening...
and more battlescars. for luke this time... whos responsible?
sunny days, and windy days.
and on that lighter note, to the rest of youse, it was great to spend some time with youse. all the best. now dear people...
annie my dear, hope you have a wonderful 2005, no doubt you started it in style in paris. was thinking of you all weekend, and you know my big smile and heart is with you everywhere. love you most classy lady.
same goes to you simon, miss you dearly but methinks it'll be good to see you soon.
rachael. what can i say laaaaahhhhhhvvvvve youse scuzzy malaka. so good to talk to you christmas. & good luck with icthyfan or what's his name...
andrea and cameron, no doubt youre all blissed out on love and freakin spiriruality, or delhi belly, either way, love you and miss you and hope to catch up sometime not too far away, and i'm still not dead yet ang. and i'm very glad to hear that you aren't either. keep safe. dellie belly.
and everyone else, you know i love you, hope to see some of you this week before i pack it all in. otherwise i guess i'll hunt you down sometime, somewhere cause you know i do that. goddamn country girl that i am. probly bring you the homemade chutney too. til then most sauce. i mean love.
chutney club early january hamper
okay, i've got the goodies, you want em, maybe we should raffle this sucker. many good products. and you could say you participated in the inter-suburb chutney club's first ever christmas (early january) hamper. TRUST ME IT'LL BE FAMOUS ONE DAY. or i will and you can say you had a jar of my also famous trex texas BBQ sauce. or cates amazing eggplant pickle. don's mango. shall i go on? buy a ticket somewhere somehow in january.
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