We have had several hot days already this week after our little cold interlude a couple of weeks ago and now when I look at the projected forecast we still have a full week ahead of us with forecasts of high 20's temperature. I wish I was fitter/younger...I would apply for the Maatsuyker Island job just to get the six months of cooler temperatures...or maybe even Macquarie Island. As part of the Antartica Division, it is even farther South and much colder. I note that their webcam is indicating a temperature there of 6.3 degrees at the moment, here I am sweltering at just over 27 degrees...You can probably tell from all this whinging that I don't appreciate hot weather, at all!
I can remember when I was a child that it was unusual to have more than a couple of nice warm days in a row here...and they couldn't be relied on to arrive usually until mid February...just when we all were returning to school for the new term after the Christmas hols...I'm showing my age here, aren't I? Enough whinging...
Yesterday I sent off what will probably be my one and only quasi-Christmas card for this year.
This went to Western Australia to catch up in a few weeks with my peripatetic friends, who will shortly be travelling in their motor home from Eden in the very south of New South Wales through Victoria, South Australia and across the Nullarbor Plain to visit family members in Western Australia over the Christmas period. I needed to return a usb to them and so popped it in with the card...I hate getting items through the post without a message attached...
I am trying to reuse each of the challenge prompts to see if there is any improvement with that group of prompts before I move on to the next one which will be number six...
To get back to her MM embossed paper flower, I liked it very much and as all the techniques she used are on my "MM skills improvement" agenda, I decided to have a go...basically, I simply copied her project. They look a bit different as I didn't copy slavishly, (different embossing folder, different background, gold highlights not silver, etc.), and I made mine into a largish card, but there is nothing original about this piece...thanks so much, Andrea, for the inspiration!
Today is Helen's birthday, (hope you are having a well spoilt day, Helen, from all your lads), and tomorrow I start my new university unit on Writing Family History, which I am looking forward to...it is a Summer unit which will take me until Early February to complete and should fill the silly season nicely!
This course is available through the University of Tasmania School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education and is (currently) HECs free for domestic Australian citizens...on completion it will be my third unit in a Diploma of Family History qualification for which I have already completed two units. The scholarship rules are changing for next year so I may have to reconsider progressing further...we will see...I really enjoy participating in these as it gives my brain something to cling onto...
Better trot, my craft room is starting to swelter and I need to relocate to a cooler area of the house...
Bye now,
Di