My thought over the last few days is that I am going to put a concerted effort into blogging each day or every few days.. Not only for myself so I can keep an account of what goeson in my day but also, maybe for my friends and family to keep up with what I am doing all the way here in Tasmania if and when they want to.
So, to start with these last few days in the New Year have been eventful in a rather boring way. We had family stay over for X'mas and they all left on the 1st January. It is funny how one gets used to solitude and just catering for just one other person in the household.
I have been used to running a household of teenagers and working full time as a single parent. So, those of you who have been sole parents, know how hard it is to hold down a full time job, and run a household and also to keep your sanity in a household with teenagers. Albeit just two ( my daughter and my son) it was 100 miles an hour. I didn't like them going on public transport too much, so drove them back and forth to most places, including picking them up from parties at all hours in the night.
So, I really couldn't understand why I was so exhausted when the visitors left on the 1st ! Well, as I indicated before we do enjoy solitude here, hence we don't mingle with too many people on a regular basis, therefore, don't seem to get the common illness that one does when one is in a larger city mingling with the odd bods in buses and trains who sneeze and cough around you. However, when our visitors were here we had the opportunity of driving to Hobart. Which is approximately 250km away from where we live and was able to attend Hobart's Taste Festival which is held once a year.
I was most excited that we were going to be able to attend the event for a few reasons. I love cooking and all things food. I love to learn new ways of doing things with food and new ideas on how to present and mix different spices together and drove down there with great expectations. Because it is such a huge event here you can imagine the hundreds of people who were attending the 3 day or so event. Well we mingled all right and me ending up with the flu which is the reason why I felt so tired on the 1st !
The Taste Festival was a bit of a flop for me. What was I expecting ? I was expecting cooking demonstrations, hints and tricks to cook with. To be able to try out various exotic dishes. In their defence I have to say, that if you are interested in Wineries it was a great spot. One could easily get drunk on just the tastings. I don't drink. Haven't drunk for a couple of reasons. Because of my Esoteric healing work I cant drink, it also happened that around the same time that I started my healing work, that Victor had his accident on his bicycle and got an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). This was in 2009. He has been advised not to drink any alcohol since then. (I will blog about this another day) so the Taste Festival was no good in that regard for us. On the other hand when we went to check out the food, the noise and chaos there was too much for Victor to bear and was stressing him out, so we rushed through the shed and just picked up fish and chips of all things and went outside where there was lesser of a chaos ! But, I did have people sneezing beside me left, right and centre !!!
We have had a few nice days weatherwise back home. Tasmanian weather is very unreliable and unpredictable. It could be beautiful when you wake up in the morning and on an absolute dime it would take a turn and freeze or rain or both ! So with the nice weather Victor and I both have been working in the garden. We had neglected the garden during the Xmas - New Year period entertaining and generally enjoying our visitors and the celebratory period. So it was a hard slog. And of course I was on a go slow because I was getting the flu ! Feeling more like myself a bit today but I think I will attack the house in the next few days..
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