Back to Blogging.. the art of living creatively
Here I am in the middle of the Never Never again, pretty much on my own, with no real understanding exactly why: other than the job, and the quiet. It is a long way from ‘home’.. wherever that is these days. So I was pretty happy when Kim and Anne came to visit from Darwin for the weekend. It has been so long since I had visitors that I really have lost the art of entertaining. And it is an art. Not sure I was ever good at it, but creativity is in all of us, and that is what art should be. I didn’t know what to tell Kim when she asked about dinner, so I got creative and suggested we go out somewhere. (Or was that her polite suggestion).. There isn’t a lot to do in Mataranka but the Homestead, in Elsey Park by the thermal pools, serves up decent food, cold beer and sometimes provides live entertainment. So I figured that would be good. But, just in case, I made up a chicken soup in the crock-pot that ...