Lord I'm a slacker! I keep meaning to update this but haven't gotten around to it since I went to Ireland for my exhibition (6 whole months ago!!)

One of the nicest things was to fly out of a stinking hot Aussie February into Dublin and see snow covering the Wicklow hills. Being cold was a luxury!

The exhibition experience and visiting the Gaelscoileanna was just great. Kids have such great questions and make really neat comments!

Since then so much has happened - new CD recording finished with the lads, couple of festivals and concerts and a couple of stints of working in Melbourne where I waslucky enough to catch a couple fo the Collingwood games, before they crashed spectacularly out of the running last week! And the whole thing topped off by little Rory's arrival a couple of weeks ago... another little Ox in the family.

We've had the dust storm from hell followed by more rain (= red mud everywhere!) and the indications are for a hot December - I really do need to get a shade-cloth frame happening for the vege garden! Spring was lovely - blossoms everywhere which I hope will translate into fruit!

Plans are afoot now to extend the back verandah into a sunroom/dining room and then I think I'll rest on my laurels for a while.

Photos to come!