I know it is not nice to compare the arrival of your first child to a natural disaster but in a way this is how it feels. We are surreally calm and excited, evening and week ends are spent relaxing without any major social events but rather sleeping a lot (Annie) and reading the papers (Tommaso). Last week end was a typical example.
On Sunday we decided to go to the botanical gardens for a walk through the blossoming.
It was absolutely beautyful. We came across quite an interesting event, here is the story. A few months ago a botanist was canoeing in the Blue Mountains and came across a variety of pines that were thought to be extinguished 60 million years ago. These pines are called Wollemi and they developed 100 million years ago; they are basically the plants of the dinasours!!! Here is a link to find out more from a story on the ABC or here on the botanical gardens web site. Here is a picture.
So what they did is they managed to get saplings out of these few 38 only remaining trees. Now these saplings have grown and they will be actioned by Sotheby's!!! How clever is that! There are already people enquiring from all over the world.
We then dropped to say hello to Micaela, a good friend of our's who grew up in Lesmurdie near Perth. We went for a coffee on Darlinghurts in King's Cross before going back home to organise our Tasmanian trip with the family.
Ciao
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