Dancing with horses and Olive at Mawson
It's springtime and Luke has hay fever. There is pollen everywhere and it looks like snow.
On Saturday Luke and I worked on my interfaith schools project and set up the webpage and bought a domain. I'll have to talk to ABS about my business name and a set that up along with the IP rights ASAP before someone else gets on it.
Later in the day, while the husband was snoozing, I went bike riding. Instead of my usual - around the lake, I went west and up to Mugga Lane and the Olive Grove which is so close to home.
It was a gorgeous ride and a lovely day and I felt free, fresh and happy. Things were finally falling into place with my side project and Luke was getting more recognition at work (that's another story).
Eventually, I rode uphill to this Mugga Lane Cottage and Historial site. I need knew it existed !
The uphill climb was difficult and I kept swaying and almost toppled over because of the large rocks in the dirt path.
The best bit - the horses!! About six of them, browns, a white and a black. They saw me riding up the hill in their paddock and did a little scared but curious dance around me.
They followed me from a distance but backed away if I turned around to look at them or rang my bike bell. They were hilarious! Like little kids - equally fascinated but terrified of the bike - something new and possible fun/dangerous....
I eventually ran into the tour guide of this 1800s cottage and had a personal tour of the place! It's about 200 years old, was owned by a poor farming family - the Curleys and was made into a museum in the 90s.
The thing that stuck out for me were the singer sewing machines! Just like what my grandmother had back in Karachi! The kitchen and dining room built about ten metres back from the main house to stop fires spreading (very like Indian and Japanese homes used to be built too) and most interesting of all was the art work!!
The dining room had painted photos of Egypt and Muslims in Egypt saying their daily five prayers in the sand... A few of camels and the Pyramids of Giza.
For me, this was such a nifty story for my interfaith, anti-racism project....
I can't imagine a Modern Australian farming family having an artwork of Muslims praying in their dining room any more! It was such a pretty, exotic and interesting picture !
The tour guide said that after World War One a lot of artists and photographers would make money selling these pieces door to door to Aussies who hadn't been to Egypt during the War.
I found it so very fascinating !
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On Tuesday it will be two years since Luke proposed and we got engaged.
We celebrated a bit earlier and went to dinner at Olive at Mawson. (Dinner was on Brendan who bought us a Good Restaurants Voucher so thx Brendan)
We has such a great time :-) one of my favourite dates. So simple, impromptu and casual.
We drank a lot, ate too much (including fried olives and fried Greek cheese with lemon), lost track of time and then were late for our movie booking - Sicario but all in all such a lovely Saturday. I miss the weekend :-(
Mugga Lane Historical Farm and Cottage
Lake Burly Griffin at sunset
Floriade 2015, Canberra
On Saturday Luke and I worked on my interfaith schools project and set up the webpage and bought a domain. I'll have to talk to ABS about my business name and a set that up along with the IP rights ASAP before someone else gets on it.
Later in the day, while the husband was snoozing, I went bike riding. Instead of my usual - around the lake, I went west and up to Mugga Lane and the Olive Grove which is so close to home.
It was a gorgeous ride and a lovely day and I felt free, fresh and happy. Things were finally falling into place with my side project and Luke was getting more recognition at work (that's another story).
Eventually, I rode uphill to this Mugga Lane Cottage and Historial site. I need knew it existed !
The uphill climb was difficult and I kept swaying and almost toppled over because of the large rocks in the dirt path.
The best bit - the horses!! About six of them, browns, a white and a black. They saw me riding up the hill in their paddock and did a little scared but curious dance around me.
They followed me from a distance but backed away if I turned around to look at them or rang my bike bell. They were hilarious! Like little kids - equally fascinated but terrified of the bike - something new and possible fun/dangerous....
I eventually ran into the tour guide of this 1800s cottage and had a personal tour of the place! It's about 200 years old, was owned by a poor farming family - the Curleys and was made into a museum in the 90s.
The thing that stuck out for me were the singer sewing machines! Just like what my grandmother had back in Karachi! The kitchen and dining room built about ten metres back from the main house to stop fires spreading (very like Indian and Japanese homes used to be built too) and most interesting of all was the art work!!
The dining room had painted photos of Egypt and Muslims in Egypt saying their daily five prayers in the sand... A few of camels and the Pyramids of Giza.
For me, this was such a nifty story for my interfaith, anti-racism project....
I can't imagine a Modern Australian farming family having an artwork of Muslims praying in their dining room any more! It was such a pretty, exotic and interesting picture !
The tour guide said that after World War One a lot of artists and photographers would make money selling these pieces door to door to Aussies who hadn't been to Egypt during the War.
I found it so very fascinating !
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On Tuesday it will be two years since Luke proposed and we got engaged.
We celebrated a bit earlier and went to dinner at Olive at Mawson. (Dinner was on Brendan who bought us a Good Restaurants Voucher so thx Brendan)
We has such a great time :-) one of my favourite dates. So simple, impromptu and casual.
We drank a lot, ate too much (including fried olives and fried Greek cheese with lemon), lost track of time and then were late for our movie booking - Sicario but all in all such a lovely Saturday. I miss the weekend :-(
Mugga Lane Historical Farm and Cottage
Lake Burly Griffin at sunset
Floriade 2015, Canberra