Chained to my desk...

Did I bore you already with pictures of my desk? I tell you, it's bloody hard being a student!

Today I've got my laptop on the table too (these pictures were taken a while ago... it's hotter today, and I can hear cicadas down the hill). I've spent the last week coming out on the verandah to read academic papers, but now that I've finished putting together my first ever conference poster (apparently graduate students routinely put up posters detailing their area of research in order to invite input and comment from other interested academics and grad students - I didn't know any of this until I was invited to submit a poster and I had to do some hasty research into their form and function!) I can turn my attention to getting quotes for some of the work that would need to be done on road improvements/seage/water tanks/solar electricity etc IF we were to go for the Lot 31 North Boambee Road property.


















This evening we've got our first 'dinner with friends' in Australia. We've been in touch with a couple, Carol and Ian, whose youngest son Craig goes to the Montessori pre-school with Ella. They're bringing their older son Andrew along as well (he goes to the primary school where Ella and Craig will start in January) for a curry this evening. It's not quite the same as the wonderful times we've had in our kitchen in Woodfield Road, but it's a start...

And before we have dinner, I'm off to a private view for the inaugural 'Focus' exhibition for the Coffs Harbour Arts Council, for which my print, "Rusty Wharf, Murano" was apparently selected earlier this week! All of which makes paying the equivalent of £75 for framing it vaguely worthwhile... if I'm going to be doing a lot of framing I can see that buying my own equipment would be cost-effective! I'm thrilled that the print was selected - I have no idea what the overall standard of work is like - and it should be very interesting going to the private view.