CBR->BNE

4:00 pack car

4:15 Dep Kellaway st

4:45 Arr Airport

5:45 F & P Depart CBR

7:30 Arr BNE

7:10 M & J Depart

8:50 M & J Arr BNE

SUN CBR Lunch

On the way home from the NGA, we (Phoebe and Frank) dropped into the pie shop at Anslie shops and bought pies:

Henry: Steak & Mushroom.

Max: Chicken

Jemma: plain beef.

Phoebe: Steak & Kidney.

Frank: Steak, bacon and cheese. 

P also bought sweets that were cut into pieces - vanilla slice,  caramel slice,  lemon meringue pie, Crème Brûlée .

Tea was made and special note was made acknowledging the tea cosy knitted by Claire. 

SUN NGA

Getting a dose of artistic culture at the National Gallery of Australia. NGA

The big ticket drawcard were the Arthur Boyd Tapestries.

There's lots of them and they are huge. Commissioned by Arthur Boyd and made in a Portuguese workshop in the 1970's.

Someone had a lot of money. 

Getting Philosopical to me Art evokes a wide range of emotional feelings. Often for me there's a "wow". It can negative like "wow" what pointless rubbish or "wow" why do they even acquire and display this. Sometimes it's a wow curiosity about how did they make this and I often wish they would tell about how a piece was manufactured. Sometimes I have to sit and look and gradually I see detail.

Boyd said and I agree: you don't want to hang onto stuff. You want to ditch stuff and keep concepts. Stuff is the past and concepts are the future. 

To me the main "wow" with art is the light it shines on humanity and the potential for the future. Sometimes it's a sad "wow" that brings on tears and feelings of anger and sadness about the past. Occasionally it's an awesomeness about the future.

The obligatory Blue Poles photo. 

To me a comparison the complexity of the human arm to the relative clumsiness of a robotic arm. 

Grate Art:

A very practical installation:

The spaces always feel huge.   I wish I had that much space in my house. 

The main attraction:

A hands on DIY experience of weaving with a time line on the left. I felt they'd done a great job of contextualising the tapestries.  They had this time line,  the DIY activity which shows how hard it is to weave. There was a nice little documentary video. The sketches that were originally for a children's book and finally the Tapestries. 

two shadows from two projectors. Each projector projected the entire image. Presumably to make it brighter.  Must have been fun to align. 

Saturday

Pretty Quiet day. 

Park run. 

Removed roof racks from Henry's car.

Washed clothes. 

Sorted out Henry's flickering LED down lights. 

Observed no easy solution to his carport light. 

Woden Park Run

Today 00:37:28.

PB 00:36:52 here at woden.

It was pretty cold and I felt it was hard to breathe.

Woden Town parkrun results for event #41. Your time was 00:37:28.

Congratulations on completing your 79th parkrun and your 2nd at Woden Town parkrun today. You finished in 249th place out of a field of 346 parkrunners. You were the 128th male and came 8th in your age category VM60-64. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. 

Your PB at Woden Town parkrun remains 00:36:52. Your best time this year remains 00:36:52

Ski Fri - last day

A pretty relaxed exit with no shouting.  I think we drove out at about 7:30.

Parked at Bullock's Flat and took the ski tube.

The reason for driving yesterday was 35% discount v 20%discount for the bring-a-mate and the risk that had we taken forever to depart the accommodation, we may have missed getting into the Perisher car park. 

We have another day in paradise although paradoxically a bit less paradisial would be preferable.

8:40 Phoebe & Frank having our traditional coffee at the ski tube terminal. 

Jemma and Max have dropped their shoes in Jax and are off looking for Pretty Valley. 

Henry and James at Blue Cow and Chris is on the train to join them. 

Frank and Chris on a chair lift. 

Snow was very thin and in some places it runs away.  This is coming down the hill to Pleasant Valley Quad.  Rental ski territory. Mind you if you ski onto it you stop real quick. 

Ski Thursday

Very healthy breakfasts

colours on the road to bullocks flat

so close and yet so far

(Little orbs mini doughnuts $9.50 for 12)