Valerie

Kays sister Valerie came to stay with us for the week before Xmas. Valerie has lived in northern NSW for 11 years and adores Nelson. We loved having her to stay and had a fun time rediscovering our favourite spots.

the school fair

The end-of-year School Fair season is upon us at the moment. They are great fun and an important fund-raiser activity.
Among others, we attended Ronan's Primary School gala last weekend.
The difference in a smaller community like Nelson is that you will find the local judge on the raffle wheel, his legal assistant cooking hot dogs and the new entrants teacher putting on a karate show.
All the usual stuff was there; coconut shy, auction, food, sponge throwing at the teachers etc. Flynn is pictured here at the receiving end of Kay's mighty throw!

Kay goes potty

Kay has been producing some amazing pottery pieces with the Nelson
Community Potters. Every week Kay goes to a pottery class located in an old converted bungalow just 2 minutes walk from home.
Pictured above are two of her latest creations!
Nelson has a long history with the art of pottery, and it is still alive and strong today.

Flynn goes bush with his mates

This photo is a pic of me and some other of Jimmy's friends going up to his land up in Brookland, in the photo we are standing on the back of Jimmy's dad's trailer going up the giant mountain (it had lots of gorse).

The 2008 Nelson Arts Festival!

The 2008 Nelson Arts Festival was a real goody this year.
Eleven days (and nights) of innovative theatre, music, dance, cabaret and writers do their thing at the Historic Founders Park and the wonderful Suter Gallery.

We attended a number of events throughout the festival this year. Simon was on stage on the opening night, delivering his Pecha Kucha talk (see his show notes here). He was also (dragged) onstage on the final night of the Festival by Ronan Ronan!

Simon is pictured above on the lawn at Founders on the final day of the Arts Festival, quietly enjoying a cold ale from the on-site brewery.


The iconic windmill at the entrance to Founders Heritage Park.