Started last week off with a visit to the University of Otago House exhibition of lithographs after Louis-Auguste de Sainson from the Hocken Library . Sainson was a French artist on board the Astrolabe in the 1830s and did several portraits of Maori , on their own and in groups as well as seascapes, landscapes in the Bay of Plenty, Northland and Marlborough Sounds among other places. Dieter has a book about him, I have a calendar of people in various costumes and Dieter also has a couple of prints of Maori chiefs - Natai and Rangui in his collection of NZ prints. These are not the very old ones, but ones produced in the 1970s or 1980s when Dieter was doing all his acquisitions. l We finished off the morning with lunch in town and then a visit to the library's book sale where we bought just 5 books and resolved to donate another 5 back to the library sale the next day which I duly did .
On the Tuesday the knitting group to which I belong, the Knitterati, usually at home at Art Station, came to our place to knit and chat. We are working on blankets for our Shelter exhibition next May. I have done just two and am finishing off sewing the strips of the first one together. It looks very nice. Made some date scones for morning tea which were rather heavy!
Wednesday to Friday was work, Friday night we went to a St Cecilia's Day concert at the recently renovated Cathedral. Lovely choral music by the Cathedral choir and a string quartet, organ and soloist Lyndsay Freer, a contemporary of Kiri and Malvina and with a beautiful soprano voice. It was a reflective way to start the weekend.
Saturday was our first visit to Waiheke for two or three months as the bach has been let. It was lovely to be back. The resident wood pigeon was feasting on loquats, the cinerarias were in full bloom, as is the first pohutukawa. Went for long walks, coffeed at Salvage after Mass, bought myself a skirt and blouse to celebrate the onset of summer.
On the Tuesday the knitting group to which I belong, the Knitterati, usually at home at Art Station, came to our place to knit and chat. We are working on blankets for our Shelter exhibition next May. I have done just two and am finishing off sewing the strips of the first one together. It looks very nice. Made some date scones for morning tea which were rather heavy!
Wednesday to Friday was work, Friday night we went to a St Cecilia's Day concert at the recently renovated Cathedral. Lovely choral music by the Cathedral choir and a string quartet, organ and soloist Lyndsay Freer, a contemporary of Kiri and Malvina and with a beautiful soprano voice. It was a reflective way to start the weekend.
Saturday was our first visit to Waiheke for two or three months as the bach has been let. It was lovely to be back. The resident wood pigeon was feasting on loquats, the cinerarias were in full bloom, as is the first pohutukawa. Went for long walks, coffeed at Salvage after Mass, bought myself a skirt and blouse to celebrate the onset of summer.
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