holiday house

..my getaway.

[burnedshoes]

[bremser]

Rudolf Bonvie, Dialog, 1973

[josephinia]

Phoenix tonight. Half of the original half has finally reopened after nearly three years ..which is great, but it's so *very* different. Everything changes.

[josephinia]

(his)tory

What did I say at Christmas? (Don't say you saw this. No comments. No loves.) PS - I miss this space fathoms deep.

[josephinia]

trip highlights and stuff

- little stone-stack totem making on the beach and the epic Great Ocean Road rock formations

- the beautiful old YHA at Port Fairy plus the delightful and unexpected awesomeness of ‘Coffin Sally’ - scrumptious wood fired pizzas shared between five (plus a gorgeous bottle of Shiraz shared between three), great decor and great music

- too many superb acts at WOMADelaide to name them all, but notable mesmerisations included DakhaBrakha, 숨[su:m], Australian Dance Theatre, Ainslie Wills and Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro

- the tranquility of an exquisite Japanese garden sitting unassumingly on the edge of the CBD (which I discovered by accident when escaping my family after a little too much together time - perfect medicine)

- on day four of the festival, chancing to bump into a friend from our early twenties who moved to Adelaide for Uni then Darwin to live, so only see when planets occasionally align (e.g. NT four years ago) - such a treat to hang out and catch up

- being in Adelaide again for the first time in seven years, including revisiting The Exeter where I used to hang on work trips (kind of like a larger, brighter Phoenix Bar)

- finding a really nice winery in the Barossa today and picking up five bottles of red to look forward to

- this evening, enjoying the most spectacular sunset I can remember over the Murrumbidgee Valley area, then the plains around Hay - nearly an hour of evolving, unforgettable eye-candy

Yep, an absolutely cracking break. Looking forward to getting back home tomorrow and running off some of my overindulgences on the netball court. I expect it will hurt. A lot.

I’m also going to stop using tumblr. I think it’s time. And it probably won’t hurt a bit. If you know me, you know where to find me.

Ciao.

[josephinia]

1. mah teepee -- 2. asian dub foundation going *off* -- 3. cool old lady in the crowd at ADF also going off -- 4. cute couple with matching hats -- 5. long leaf on my lap -- 6. us -- 7. b&w -- 8. end of summer vibes

[josephinia]

thoughts at 1:30pm

Everyone should be slightly inebriated all of the time.

[josephinia]

Aww, the brothers, imbibing some beautiful acoustica together. We are listening to violin, guitar, mandolin and accordion under a canopy of huge trees. It is awesome. Check out Spiro. But check them out live. Intense and magical (and they like insects and write songs in their honour - ditto the video game Pong).

[josephinia]

"sarah blasko or japanese funk band?"

You've made the *right* choice. (As if there was ever any contest.)

[josephinia]

hardly taken any pics - been too busy watching, listening, eating, walking (much walking, so good)

[warmsuggestion]

Love is the opposite of currency.

[josephinia]

Hmm..

[josephinia]

good vibes

I totally get the hype about Womadelaide now -- excellent atmosphere, really well planned and run, ample food and drink options, no huge queues, gorgeous location with grass and trees everywhere, quality and variety of music, speakers and other events and very family friendly. We've also been amazingly lucky with an absence of rain - everyday has been t-shirt weather right into evening without ever getting blazing hot during the day. Five stars. Would recommend.

[josephinia]

picnic, and duck family, and my family

[josephinia]

missing..

..something.

[josephinia]

leaf pics (of course) - 1. the capture doesn't do it justice, but something about the luster and texture was reminiscent of a silk sari given to me by my late mother-in-law, soft, flowing and graceful -- 2. collected while picnicking beside the blue lake -- 3. a stray leaf on the log in the park (where I lost every "log-fight", It's A Knockout" style), making a Mona Lisa smirk

[mercyforthegreedy]

And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, & new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows & new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of comprehension.

marcel proust (via mercyforthegreedy)

[erotizei]

[josephinia]

I've just found my two spirit animals.

[josephinia]

I cut short a fairly average night’s sleep by escaping before sunrise for a solo stroll. The walk was both more and less interesting without glasses - I don’t judge distances well, so jay walking is not the usual piece of cake. Anyhow, I found a very highly rated coffee establishment that opens early, well worth a twenty minute ramble. Rufus Wainwright’s rendition of Hallelujah on the stereo took me somewhere nice as I sipped. Rating: imperfect 10. Well done.