In the meantime, another fairly action-packed weekend. On Saturday we crammed into Prints Charming owned by Cath, one of the mums from school, and an absolutely brilliant shop selling beautiful screen-printed fabrics, quilting, sewing and embroidery project kits. The shop was so busy as Cath was launching her first book and we saw loads of our school friends there drinking Champagne and stuffing smoked salmon sandwiches before the kids saw them. Since wandering in there a couple of months ago I have become hooked on embroidering and have made a brooch, two pillows (the larger heart-shaped one the cause of a fight between the girls), a string of small stuffed love hearts and am about about to start making my way through the book's many sewing and embroidery projects in the hope of eventually being able to attempt a quilt. http://www.printscharming.com.au/ Here's the website. I am officially middle-aged - I like craft!
In the afternoon Flo and I went to Carriageworks to the Finders Keepers market, a collection of amazing craft and jewellery stalls from all over Australia. I bought a beautiful origami ball made from the pages of a 1960s edition of Treasure Island, a brooch and t-shirts for Rob and I.
That night we went to the 40th birthday dinner for my old Herald colleague Cath Keenan. It was a fantastic dinner cooked by Hugh Wennerbom, a chef with no restaurant of his own who as well as making a living supplying his mailing list of foodie fans with great cheeses, meat and fish he finds from suppliers each week, also raises his own beef and pops up every Saturday night at a little cafe in Chippendale. There's no menu - you just turn up, pay a flat fee, bring your own wine and Hugh sends out dish after dish of the best produce he's found at the markets that week. It was great fun catching up with lots of old friends from the paper, the food was really superb and Rob and I got to share one of the bottles of Champagne we have been saving for a special occasion which we now have to drink as we can't ship it back to Britain.
Sunday was Mother's Day and after rubbing my sore head I opened the lovely home-made cards from the girls before we all went to Revolver for breakfast. Then it was off to Darling Point to see Jo and Mark. We have seen very little of them of late as Jo's Dad has been very ill in the UK and they have been jetting back and forth to be with him. They have the coolest most unusual apartment after years living in a beautiful sandstone cottage in Rose Bay which they outgrew last year. While the kids watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the proper version with Gene Wilder), the grown ups chatted and drank tea - for 4 hours. It was brilliant. The girls were beautifully behaved and loving all day.
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