How to pass the time during a hot spell [ lots of photos ]

Picture this scene if you will:
35 degree C [ something mid 90 ish F ] and stick-you-to-your-seat humid because we'd finally had some rain, aircon not really helping, enough perspiration to make one wish for shares in a deoderant company.

'orrible, right?
Wrong.
We were having an absolute BALL.
David went off to a 4-day camp at Airey's Inlet and not being one to waste the opportunity, I hung a quilt on the gatepost and invited some of my quilting / knitting girlies to descend on the acreage for a couple of days. I didn't give them much warning, but still Felicity, Megan, Deb, Marcie, Robyn and Barb took me up on the invitation. Sylvia and Jeanette joined us when they could, and

Nadie [ hey sweety which bit of the HTML do I need to delete to get rid of these bulletpoints?]

and The Boy and the cats came up too. We were expecting Chris and

Maz

, Bernadette and Di but family duties and illness intervened :[

Still, with the lesser numbers we all managed to fit around the kitchen table.

We ate lots at very strange hours [ lunch at 2 , dinner at 9 ]
drank lots
talked lots
shared Chantelle [ that's Central Vic Quilterspeak for Show-n-tell ]
laughed lots
and did a modicum of quilting, knitting, beading and crochet as the mood demanded.
It was

Felicity's

first night away from the Toddlermonster since he was born and they both survived the experience intact. She was one very relaxed and happy Mummy as we breakfasted outside and then took a stroll over to view the new goatlings next door.

This is Blogless Megan's cat miniature. The faces are about an inch and are twice the size of the other one she made [ but I don't have a photo of THAT ] I hope she realises how lucky she is that I restrained myself from full body tackling her to the ground so that I could wrench this from her limp and unresisting fingers :]


Blogger is currently unwilling to let me post any more photos so I'll do that tomorrow. Same bat time same bat channel.