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Welcome to Drawing Life; a glimpse into the minutiae of daily life from the suburbs of Melbourne
Some months ago, whilst out on a regular traipse up in the Dandenong Ranges, I came across a large thistle. It had a huge deep purple bloom and stood alone and upright on a chunky bristle-like stem waving about in a cool autumn breeze. A week later, its colour had faded to barely mauve, it’s stem and leaves a shrivelled straw, and its’ previously grand stature seemed diminished.Read More
It is late on a Friday afternoon and I unexpectedly find myself beneath a huge black cloud.
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Wednesday night, brooding with jars and vessel's and other things on the kitchen bench Whilst the chook cooks and the cakes cool, Leo, Raf's cat, disrupts the radio - transmission. Cooped up and disrupted, me and you ruffled, Raffled and shitty.
It is Boxing day and as the excitement of Christmas fades, it is replaced by the sweet anticipation of a summer trip. It is a summer trip that will not take us south to a popular seaside spot, but one that will take us north to Albury, to the other side of the Victorian and NSW border… the better side according to Pa. Albury is where our grandparents live. They have a pool.
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I’m exhausted.
Saturday was a day like no other. I had things to do but I didn’t quite know how or when to do them.
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Cathy Freeman? No, not quite, it’s just me, zooming along a local pathway, bearing a couple of the gifts that the current times have bestowed upon me.
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Drawing Life 