Marrickville markets - it didn't rain till after lunch!

We had a welcome respite from the endless rainy weekends on Sunday. Well, it did rain, and a lot of it, but at least the massive storm didn't reach us until after lunch. We were drenched and freezing by the time we got packed up, but we had a lot of help from our friends. Thanks Gabe, Manny and Suzanne!

Here are some pics from the day:

Talented daughter

Rosie hosted a delightful evening of music last night at Hibernian House in Surry Hills last night. It is part of her ongoing commitment to promoting the music of women musicians/songwriters, and was the best yet.

Charmian Kingston began the evening with some well-chosen covers and her own songs. She has a hauntingly beautiful voice, and a sweet delivery.

Rosie as always charmed the attentive audience with her own songs accompanied by Byron Mark. Then she brought out her sitar and introduced Nila, a really good young tabla player. She sang one of her songs and then did a traditional South Indian raga with the guys. "La Noche", an old favourite rounded off her set.

Ngaiire, Rosie and Charmian had recently toured to New Caledonia for a music festival and they did their stuff last night as the final set for the evening. I knew they were great individual musicians but I wasn't prepared for the ensemble! Wow. Exquisite three-part harmonies. Rosie on cajon and shaker, Charmian on keys and Ngaiire with her guitar for a couple of songs and uke for another. A knock-out!

Here is Rosie with Caspar Jeffrey on tabla and Byron percussion and keys from their performance as part of the Parramasala festival this year:

Rain, rain, go away!

We have had so much rain in Sydney, not to mention the cold. It is summertime, but we are all wearing jumpers and ugg boots, and I caught a whiff of a wood stove yesterday in our leafy suburb.
I'm developing our range of paletas right now - in fact licking and sucking at a delicious date, vanilla and ginger mini-paleta. Mmmm!
Here are a few pictures: