Share Four Somethings - April

 And how is it possible we are already here again?

This month has FLOWN by!!

School holidays and a trip to Melbourne and suddenly it's all back to spreadsheets and talks with the accountant. Argh. 

Something we loved: Hard to narrow it down, been to four plays, a number of comedians and Ultra, which is my annual fabulous jaunt to Melbourne for a fun 24 hours of eating, art and dancing! But I will say I loved touring the University campuses with my youngest. It was great to see two of the regional Universities in detail and see what my daughter liked about them. It was a right of passage I didn't get with my others as they were going locally and just went off to look with their friends. 

Something that sustained us: Ultra. That  manically happy 24 hours of feeling free (in the sense of no one to be responsible for except myself - though my friend was recovering from covid so I was slightly worried she was pushing her self for my sake). I had to walk that fine line of being concerned but not being annoying...as the mother mode can occasionaly be overbearing. Anyway, it just made me pumped for the next occasion to dance!

Something we're carrying forward from this month to the next:
With the Comedy Festival in full swing, I've a number of nights out, all a good walk to and from the venues. Ditto I had two nights at the Belvoir, a theatre that takes me about 45 mins to walk to at a fast pace. So I've been managing to get my steps up and average 70-80 kms a week. One of my doctors, maybe the foot one - who knows, said 'it's counter intuative but you need to keep finding ways to keep moving and using it, even mindful of discomfort. Once you stop, it gets worse' and that has really stuck with me. I can't get less flexible, mobile, energetic than I am now. I look at my mum who does less and less and I don't want to become that. So finding ways to keep the exercise and movement up is something I'm working on. Another doctor said we (humans) rarely reach backwards so that becomes inflexible. I've been working on that too. A comedian, Jimmy O'Yang I think, but could be Ronny Chieng or Aaron Chen, made fun of his father and pointed out you never see elderly Chinese standing still. If they are waiting for a bus, they'll start doing exercises. That's what I've started doing. If waiting for the kettle to boil, in an elevator, whatever - I start doing ankle lifts or arm twists - whatever I can get a quick 10 or 20 done....

Something we're making space for: Writing. I really need to get my story submitted for Grief. I've written the bones but need to finish it this weekend. And submit it. I also have a number of blog posts to write and reviews. Just seem time poor constantly at the moment.

I've included two songs from Nimino who I saw this month and was fabulous. They've been on high rotation since....

Linking with #ShareFourSomethings.

The Street art is from Melbourne's Ultra weekend.

The Easter Decorations are from the Langham, where I went swimming.

Easter treats are from Black Star Pastry. And were delicious!

Mario's egg as a promo for the movie - which I saw on our trip to check out Newcastle Uni.

The  Gillie  & Marc is at Newcastle University. They have 2 million trees on campus.

The flowers are from some friends after a minor surgery - biopsy clear. Yay.

And the dandilion is in B&W here.