Today I am finally going to bring my dear little Oscar to our new home. He's been enjoying farm life up until now, but we have missed him dearly. He's about five times this size now but just as handsome!

I miss my old garden - it must be really hot there now. My dear friends Al and Sumeena are taking good are of it now though, and the ever gorgeous Brita has my house plants for company.

These two make me miss it less though...

Rapa Nui and Moai

I would love to visit here. I wasn't even sure where it was until recently, but I've been using images of these figures in my work for a few years now.

Please read the this tale by Richard Flanagan in The Monthly- he's my hero and I could never really do it justice anyway.

Collages

My last two collages that were at Blockprojects... it feels like a long time since the little one arrived and I made these. I really must work again.

Bubsa seems to have decided she is, in fact, a bird. I say this because as the sun starts to appear in the morning a huge chorus of birds starts singing outside our house, and the little one joins in. She chatters to herself for about an hour, which may sound cute, but at five am it's becoming a little annoying

Yesterday sixty five pilot whales stranded themselves on the the beach near us - and fifty of them have already died. Apparently it was a maternal pod, and D had to go there at first light to report on how the rescue is going. There is something about whale beachings that feels terribly ominous, as though something chaotic is happening in the cosmos

First Days on the Island

It's nearly three months since we arrived, but I only now have the time to post some photos. These were our first days at The Manor - an old, overgrown and creepy house that we arrived to. We lasted there a week, but the scenery was spectacular.