
Sanctuary Acrylic on canvas, 100cm x 100cm (40″ x 40″)
I knew I was tempting Fate when I said aloud “What else can go wrong?” after my recent spate of applicance meltdowns. I thought nothing could beat the washing machine, phone & computer all going belly up together, until the car and computer (x2) went on strike. When the car made a loud “pop” under the hood, with strangling noises following, I called for the roadside assist mechanic. “Starter motors’ gone luv.” he said in a strong Irish accent. Odd, considering the youthfulness of the car. Next day at the garage/hospital it was revealed that it was nothing mechanical at all – a computer module was to blame. Some Power-Interface-Control-The-World module had told my car that the starter motor was cactus AND that it was out of fuel, and therefore don’t go awyhere. I also think it had a word to my home computer (you know the one that had it’s power pack replaced last week!), who now refused to allow mouse clicks to open anything. Several hundreds of dollars later, fastforward to today and my world is a much happier place. Fate can go jump.
Happy days on the go again, I finished some paintings, the above is for an upcoming exhibiton. The Quackers are back, but we have the pool blanket on, which rather confused them and me, seeing them walk on the rippling surface just like a water bed. The howling winds soon threw back a corner of the blanket, so happy ducks now as well. (Ssshhh, don’t tell Jeff, he’s not fond of all the mess they make…)


A huge storm is brewing tonight, due to hit in the early hours of the morning. Damaging gale force winds, hail, thunderstorms, abnormally high tides & flooding along the coast with beach erosion forecast. From Beaumaris Beach below, it looked very bleak. Time to snuggle up with a mug of something hot with my feet getting toasty in front of the heater. There’s good chocolate hiding somewhere as well…..
