I went to a big party on the Friday night - so left (a bit tired) for Inglewood on Saturday morning
Justin caught a lift up with Alex on Friday
Anyway, arrived there around 11am - and prepared for our first video call with Melanie - from the Bookanartist website.
Rileigh had unfortunately fallen through as our mural artist - so we were back to square one. Luckily Madeleine had sent me a link to the this website, and it's fantastic.
I put my brief in - described the job, ie internal stairway mural in Arts & Crafts/Victorian style - and could then choose which artist to brief
It was very efficient, you can choose artists by looking at their experience, portfolio, reviews etc - so I chose 5 who I thought would do a good job
I was then contacted by another 8 - who were interested in the project
And I had also done some googling research - and contacted some Silo mural artists
Therefore, we had 2 x video calls for Saturday, 1 x site visit, and another video call for Sunday
Anyway, we had Melanie up first for the video call at 12 noon - and showed her the space, explained more of the project.
Next up was Shawn at 1pm
And last for the day at 2.30 was Caroline and her assistant Alex, who drove out here
In between, we had some lunch
Jane arrived around 4pm- and we showed her around the progress, and then I went and had a nap, was tired from my late night on Friday
Got up 6ish - and went upstairs to watch the Matildas play against France in the quarter finals. All four of us were watching - was quite exciting.
We were supposed to be in Kingower at 7pm, but the game went into overtime, and it was still 0 0. We left just after 7pm, - listening to the game on the car radio and arrived at St Marys for Christmas in July in August
Had some nibbles, and helped serve out the meals - potato and leek soup for starters, then roast lamb with lots of different vegies, and individual plum puddings for dessert
Was a very pleasant night - and Jane also alerted us to the fact that the Matildas had won their quarter final in the penalty shoot outs (her daughter had contacted her) - and we all raised a glass to toast their success. So this means that they are into the semi finals.
Jane drove us home, and although we talked big, ie saying we'd stay up and have a few more drinks, both Jane and I just wanted to go to bed, so the boys did too
Had a very self indulgent lie in on Sunday. Justin got me vegemite & avocado toast, and a coffee in bed, and we did wordle/quordle/sudoku and read the online paper. Had organised with Alex and Jane the night before, that we would all just get our own breakfasts in the morning and get up whenever...
So got out of bed after 10am, put my coveralls on, and went and dug up some small palms for Terry - as the ground is still quite soft - so easier to dig
Dug up 4 of them - relatively easy to do - but had to watch out for the spikes
Justin and I then took them around to Terry's -Alex and Jane packed up and left while we were there, as they wanted to stop for lunch in Kyneton
Gave Terry the palms, and had a chat and a coffee inside
Back to Inglewood - and a bakery lunch - a pie and 1/2 sausage roll each
And we had our last video call with Geoffrey the artist at 2.30pm. It's going to be very hard to decide who to paint the mural. I was even saying to Justin that maybe we could have one in our ensuite - but I guess he quite rightly said to do this one first.
Put up the fruit fly catcher (hopefully there won't be any)
And I also did a bit of weeding out the front, and got out the servant bells in preparation for Chris
Justin and Alex also gave me some photos
On the Saturday morning they'd seen a bird kerfuffle out the window - a small bird of prey must have taken a magpie chick, and the magpies were dive bombing it
And here are some of Alex's photos
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