I suppose the last post, quoting an American President, was a bit cheeky, but there you are. I don’t really bother with political commentators, but I sort of liked Reagan – not taking sides here, but liked the man. My idea of planting the plants in pots rather than in the soil seems to be working – well they are still alive so that’s a plus. I didn’t go to the garden centre on the way back out of the city. It was a long and not very productive day and I just wanted to get back home. These days, we talk a lot but we really don’t do much. The next conference is in April and I think I might have a cold, or something… It had been my intention to pay a visit to the State Art Gallery where there is an exhibition of the works of JM Turner. Hanging above my desk is a reproduction of ” The Fighting Temeraire” and it would have been really excellent to see the actual painting. Now, that’s interesting – the SA Exhibition is ‘Turner from the Taite” but the Fighting Temeraire is part of the National Gallery (London) collection, so I should think it unlikely that the Temeraire will be in Adelaide and that’s a great pity.
There was a little girl (Fox Terrier) requiring a lift down to Adelaide so I said I would take her with me. However, she was picked up from SADR and taken down yesterday, so she will now be settling in to her new home. I head off to a concert tomorrow and that will be me finished with Adelaide until May and I will be there for a week for the General Assembly. Days are taken up, evening I have to myself. There is a dinner on the Tuesday night, but I will not be attending that; however not far from the hotel is a Pasta Restaurant and I am a sucker for Italian and Chianti. “She who must be obeyed” cannot travel, so I will be there on my own – me a computer , a smartphone and a Kindle. What more does a fellow need – except his babies, and I will miss them. It’s been a couple of years since I was away from them for more than two days at a time.
We did a fundraiser out in the bush in the middle of nowhere – Jazz Under the Stars – and this is a photograph I took of the car in the middle of nowhere on its way to that ridge you can see up ahead. Good going in, fun driving out in the dark.
I was always told that if there are two dogs the female generally sleeps with the male human and the male sleeps with the female human. No one could have told my two because he sleeps 
with me and she sleep with herself. If I was really desperate and because I have small dogs, my hammock is way out of their reach and besides, they don’t like the swinging motion of the hammock – it seems to upset them. I know this because I took one of them onto the hammock with me and he was not very impressed. He fought to get down and I could not let him just jump down onto the paving because he could really have hurt himself. I had to put him back down to earth. The hammock is outside under the pergola, not in my bedroom :o)
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