Friendship, fires and followers
We have had visitors over the weekend – friends from the city who make the huge effort to pack up their little ones and make the six-hour drive from Brisbane to our place. T and G were among the first of our ‘couple’ friends from the earliest days of our courtship (now THERE’s a lovely, old-fashioned word!). They are pretty special in our lives and it’s always a sweet, satisfying feeling when they are with us – a contrast to those days when we ate out for at least two meals a day, lived large and partied hard into the night.
The weekend has been filled with a marvellous array of activity. We all travelled to a nearby town to watch Mr Incredible compete in a campdraft (I left my camera card behind, so you’ll just have to take my word for it), watched The Sound of Music (well G and I did mostly – I hadn’t seen it for about 20 years – how great is that movie?), attended the local show (another 100km round trip) and listened to the inimitable Jenny and her dad late into the night over red wines and Cointreau. We feasted on rib fillet and my infamous roasted pumpkin salad, giant serves of spaghetti bolognaise, and a fabulous home-cooked Thai curry. The kids rode horses, watched horses, played with My Little Ponies and toasted marshmallows over fires.
It was a blissful time – the kind I hope makes great memories for my children and theirs.
Friends are so important to me – and despite the relative isolation of my home, I feel the warmth of my friendships regardless of where my friends live. And that includes my bloggy friends, who send me messages and bother to take the time to check in on me from all corners of the world. Speaking of whom (who can feel a seguay coming on?)… my blog-man Conor has been working on the ‘Followers’ thingo on my sidebar (where the lovely avatars of my readers are on show) to see if it will start updating readers any better. If you subscribe here through the Google Friend network, could you please let me know if it’s started working for you now and showing in your reader?
Fingers crossed that this blog is getting all the kinks worked out of it real soon.
Yours in friendship
🙂
BB
12 Comments
Kate
Your friend widget looks pretty good and I hadn’t realized I wasn’t following. Love how your blog is looking, too. But friends are the best thing about this post. That and the cool nighttime photos by the campfire. You really captured it well, BB.
Elizabeth
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy just looking at your photos BB….there’s nothing quite like a big old outdoor fire, good company and good drop of wine on a crisp star filled night….Ahhh Blisssss……
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Pencil Writer
Hey! I guess you can see that my pic doesn’t show up on “comments” but does seem to reside in your sidebar list of “Who Rides with ME?”
Maybe I didn’t answer your question? I’m hangin’ here anywho.
Keep chuggin’ along. It’ll all boil down to good in the end. Right?
A Novel Woman
It’s finally showing up in my Google Reader. Hurrah!
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Lovely pictures, my friend 🙂
MarkSpizer
great post as usual!
Patches
Looks like a fabulous wknd! Brings back so many memories from my childhood of my parents having their friends over and us kids getting to roast marshmallows over the campfire and run around. Love it!
I’m following you I believe through the Google Friend network (maybe? I don’t really know) and after updating my “following” to your new place, I’ve always gotten the updates in my dashboard. Hope that helps. 🙂
Jayne
Love the sentiments and the photos 😉
Kelly
Even though I have your new address in my list of those I follow, I’m still only getting the old blog in the updates on my dashboard.
Still can’t figure out how to get my avatar to show us here, either!
.-= Kelly´s last blog ..FreeVerse – Haiku for Mother’s Day =-.
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Lovely photos and what a great time you all had. Old friends are best friends, but new ones are pretty good too!
WendyJW
ah that would be me!