Life Trove

2 April 2013

Wonderful Jilly

Jilly is the person who introduced me to the world of Eckhart Tolle through her Eckhart Tuesday group. It's been life transforming, opening up a whole new spiritual world for me. I'm so deeply grateful to her.

1 April 2013

Jo's stupendous photos of Lange

27 March 2013

Special connections (2013)

Meet Up

Chris
Morag
Ken
Chrisel
Hugh

Teachers

Service

Cat photos for Neri
Russia collage for Sue
Carry girl's pack on Meet Up hike
Helping Jilly with computer, phone, lifts from hospital etc.
Helping Helen with Carl
Sue and Alex wedding
Took Neri to vet
Being space for Dani re friend's husband's death
Take Helen to hospital

Appreciation

E-mail to Kerri
Gratitude emails to Abe and Denise
Affirm Eva as host of blogging
Flowers "just because"
Neri reference
Geraldine - share my spiritual awakening

Connecting

Meditating with Mack
Connection with Rana (Bangladesh) in car
Connection with Juni in car
Jilly "I love you."
Text to Helen for operation. "So very thoughtful of you."
Being space for Dani re Mark and paddling coach
Jilly sharing re Brian "As we journey on river of life"

23 March 2013

Weekend at The Hunter Valley

Dani and I had a great weekend in the vineyards of Hunter Valley. There was plenty of rain on Saturday, but that didn't stop us from visiting lots of vineyards and sampling plenty of wine.

Some highlights of the weekend:

Picking up Dani in Newcastle on Friday afternoon after she'd had a meeting there with other University sustainability managers.
The amazing views from our room.
A delicious pizza at a very nice restaurant on Friday night.
Watching several episodes of "Breaking Bad." What a great series, highly recommended.
Visiting vineyards and trying lots of wine.
Selecting delicious home made chocolates at a local chocolate shop.
On Sunday morning, the best mocha and delicious crumble at a restaurant specialising in nothing but desserts.
Checking out lots of great sculptures at one of the wine farms.
Hunting down a bottle of sparkling Shiraz.
Discovering that most of the ways out of the Hunter Valley were closed due to floods. It took us quite a while to get back home!

Views of the vineyard from our hotel

view from hotel room

Delicious dessert for breakfast

One of the restaurants in Hunter Valley specialises entirely on desserts. What an amazing selection of mouth-watering treasures they had. And what difficult decisions. I had Apple and Rasberry Crumble and Dani tucked into Lemon Merengue Pie. The highlight, though, was the Mocha that came with a jug of rich, molten chocolate that we had to spoon in ourselves. Best Mocha of my life and I've sampled quite a few!

Mocha doesn't come better

Dani wasn't being a glutton - half of that was mine!

Statues at a local vineyard

One of the vineyards we visited had a great art gallery and a statue garden. Here are some of the statues that caught my eye.

When floods get in the way of home

We took an extra couple of hours to get home because it had been raining hard, and the first two routes we tried turned out to be flooded!