Trying to be good and start posting.
I’m good, doing yoga now, wrecked house nearly finished all its repairs, furniture ordered and being delivered soon, lost a dog and found her, not moving back home – it’s going on the market in 3 weeks (praise the lord), photos will be posted.
How is everyone?
There are lots of not quite right, Better Homes and Gardens’ Projects here.
Weeds thrive overnight.
The two huge and heavily laden Coconut trees we all had to walk under.
But there’s always a blue sky waiting for me
and I found it once the coconuts were removed.
Lou
xxxx
Here’s a reason to be grateful for the Dodgy Rental House.
WARNING
artistic types
may be offended by content below.
I promised the homework would go up on the blog, so here it is.
I am ever hopeful that gradually we might all see a little improvement over the next 12 weeks.
Fingers Crossed everyone.
So here’s the mind map – on the Hippo, the Hammer and the Teeth.
Well I did what the question asked
but it looks Dodgy to me.
It gets worse.
I did my own drawings,
and wrote up all the ideas.
Well, at least it’s sort of neat.
Now on to week two
the Buckets.
We had to think of 30 things to do with a bucket
creatively!
here’s 30
Then choose 10 to actually do.
So I picked 10
and today I’ve been busy with buckets.
Remember Yasi the Rat my friend G gave me for the first hospital stint this year?
Well he helped me illustrate Creative Bucket Use Number One.
Use a bucket to cover up stinky, icky dead vermin, until someone else disposes of them.
Then Siggi B helped out with the second one
Use a bucket to catch (small but really) wild animals.
You may notice I caught a small but scary wild wombat.
How’s this, a Bucket Target for my tennis serve.
Then
the car got to help out with number three.
And here’s me really SHAMELESS SHOWING OFF
Grandma Whacker are you reading this?
I decided to show that I have been paying attention in previous art subjects
and produced my own Marcel Duchampish
DADA BUCKET
Google: Dadaism Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
PS – the blue mats on each step are for Bee (17 year old Bichon Frise who is blind and needs to feel her way up and down the stairs here).
Linda in Chile chatted to me about the Bucket List
and I came up with another take
A Bucket OF Lists.
4 more to do tomorrow.
Love
LOU
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A resounding YES!
Of course!
(Edited to add, there are typos in this post, but I can’t scroll down in the wordpress editing screen to fix them when I’m using the iPad. Sorry!!! Fluster, fluster. L)
This week I have to come up with 30 weird and wonderfully creative uses for a bucket.
Then I have to actually do 10 of them for real and photograph them and post them onto the Uni’s Digital Discussion Board, and into the Digital Drop Box.
Easy peasy.
NOT
If you guys come up with the things to do with the buckey, I’ll get busy learning how to access,post, do digital drops, and find this discussion board.
I Really, Really Really promise to put photos up on the weekend.
Especially the mind map of the Hippo, the teeth and the hammer.
You do not want to miss seeing that I am genuinely and appalling lacking in any artistic skill at all.
My bucket list so far includes
1. A Ned Kelly costume for a toddler.
2. A cover for dead vermin to both hide them and contain their odor – till someone else disposes of them.
3. A head cover which hides you from people who know at your local coffee shop, while still letting you see and read your newspaper in peace.
(This one I am definitely going to do and photograph at my coffee shop and post to the Assignment drop box? promise to show iton here too)
That’s all for now my wonderful and exceedingly patient .
This is another in bed with the iPad post.
Thanks for all e wonderful help with last week’s mind map,
Love
Lou
Xxxx
So my bluddies.
The novelty of a broken elbow/arm wore off very quickly and I crawled into my misery hole and felt very sorry for myself.
Whew, wallowing in self pity gets very tedious.
Luckily a big pile of work, having to wade back in to the “Battle of Getting the House Fixed”, and my new Uni Subject have put the pressure on me to cheer up.
Please help me with my homework.
I have to find connections between the following:
AND
AND
My Subject is
ART and CREATIVITY.
Can you please be creative and give me some (weird and whacky most welcome) ideas on connections between all three?
I need
3 obvious connections
and 7 unexpected or imaginative ways the teeth, the hippo and the hammer are related.
And I’ll be blowed if I can even find the obvious connections.
I thought doing a subject such as Art and Creativity would teach me to be creative
but NO
they expect me to just BE creative.
HELP
HELP
HELP
HELP!
Lots of love
LOU
PS I will do a LIFE with ME update post soon.
To date – I have not broken anything since the 13th August.
(Not even a cup).
PPS Grandma Whacker – I cannot believe what your daughter did to you!
PPS My comments to everyone – are missing because WordPress is in another of it’s huffy moods and won’t let me comment.Sigh!
Why was this kind and very concerned face staring intently at me at 8am on Saturday morning?
.
.
Maybe because I was lying like this?
Yep,
I did it again.
Decided it was time to break something.
.
.
and
Yep
you are all correct
I did it by coming off this
at a bit of speed.
Saturday morning,
at Kirra Beach Surf Club
I took a huge stack
right in front of a bunch of lifesavers about to be tested on their medical rescue skills
by Kaye the kind faced rescue assessor
who’s face is at the top of this post.
Kaye, and the 20 guys who watched my head (inside my helmet)
hit the concrete at 20k an hour,
held me down until this came.
despite my best efforts to
get up
and get out of there!
I spose it’s 6 months and 1 week since my last ride in an ambulance.
And it was a nice day to look out through the windows at the passing scenery.
Till I got to the John Flynn Hospital
where they XRayed my neck
which is so much more bendy than my spine
that it magnificently
did NOT break.
Neck – I’m proud of you.
According to the witnesses
(I think they have a touch of the dramatics)
without this
I’d have cracked my skull
well and truly OPEN.
I know there was a bloody loud bang when it hit the deck
there was even a pretty loud crunch inside my head when it landed.
So
I can’t really complain about
this
1 broken Elbow.
(There’s a Tshirt on me – despite the photo looking slightly nudish).
So now I’m
getting around like this
Those Okanuis are a bit too big I know
but very comfy and easy to pull on with one hand.
So
I think the brand of my helmet
speaks for you all!
PS
Sensible Arnie was in my bike basket,
wearing a harness and a very thick coat
he was fine
the basket did not hit the cement
and Arnie stayed put.
love
Lou
xxxxxx
Well a bit more Shameless Showing Off from me –
and as usual
I learn another lesson.
I am loving my new bike and
I’ve been riding and riding and riding up to an hour a day.
Naturally I have to try and go faster than Mr iT for the whole hour!
So it was not a good week to stop taking the painkillers I’ve been on post surgery.
Too much riding,
no painkillers
and a back that is perhaps not completely healed yet
=
Total meltdown.
.
.
Grandma Whacker
you are so right –
too much gallivanting is not good!
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.
.
Siggi B comes on all my bike rides as well (count how many coats Siggi has to wear for our rides).
And this week he too has learnt a valuable lesson.
When you weigh 2 kilos
it doesn’t matter how much you resist sitting down in your bike basket
and how good your balance is,
the Human will win,
and you will end up sitting IN the basket.
.
.
.
.
And now
shock horror
Lou gets Arty.
.
.
Twice a day I walk the dodgy Brothers on the beach,
it’s part of my recovery therapy.
(Go figure walking is much harder [and more painful] for me than riding a bike).
And every walk I pick up shells on the beach here at Rainbow Bay.
So now
I’ve got this many shells
I just been picking them up with no real purpose in mind.
Then I thought I’d sort them.
Like this
I thought I might make something for the Beach Unit here.
Today I was pondering what colour would be effective as a background for grey?
So I got out some kiddie watercolours
and tried a few shades
I couldn’t work out what colour to use,
I didn’t have a good enough range of shades
so I started doing this.
.
.
Now I promise you that I have never, ever, ever, ever
painted anything in my life,
even with watercolours.
So for me –
this is pretty amazing
.
.
It’s not finished yet.
.
.
I think these metal discs in my back are affecting the artistic connections in my brain.
Earlier this week when I was having coffee
i took an “artistic” photo of a seagull on a street sign.
Look
I thought it looked like a totem pole.
.
.
Am I getting a bit loopy?
lots of love
LOU
xxxxx
Blogging has gone to Siggi’s head.
Every time I tried to use my laptop today
this is what I found.
Then
it got worse
I couldn’t find my glasses
Siggi’s having dinner now,
it’s the only way I can sneak a turn on y laptop.
So today,
I had to do the census forms
and I had to read 16 insurance policies and compare
3 different insurance companies’s rates and fine details of their policies.
It took all day.
I may have been a bit distracted
I kept looking at this and daydreaming.
And I took lots of photos of the sunlight reflecting on the water.
Eventually I got all the paperwork done.
I’m really not a paperwork person.
Love
Lou
xxxxxx
Hello to My Mum’s Bluddies
(she said that Bluddies are her Blog Buddies).
Here is my report from the Beach.
I am having a good time at the beach.
Especially last week when my Dad was not here.
Look at me at 6 o’clock in the morning
That’s Arnie’s nose not mine.
Look at me at 7 o’clock in the morning.
And
this is me at 8 o’clock in the morning
But now,
my Dad is back here
so this is me at 6 o’clock this morning
and
My Mum said can I show you these whales we saw the other day.
They were so close to our window,
look
It’s a bit hard to see the whale’s tail here, but I wanted you to know that they were really, really close to the shore.
End of my report.
Love from
Siggi B.
xxxx
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