The month included work in Canberra and Melbourne for Stephen; a super holiday break in the Northern Territory for Olivia; social, cultural (including a GOMA visit and texting silliness on video) and home committments for Paulie; working on himself for Nick and, work and play for the Oxford lads. And... renovation work at La Cachette in SW France.
1The working month for Stephen starts in Canberra. Here at the TAFE meeting after an enening gig in Parliament House
24th - Olivia visits Darwin with Lauren who works in Tasmania and they head into the sunset on Fannie Bay.
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46th - In Litchfield Park
5Nitmiluk National Park
67th - Stephen heads to Paulie & Stephen's regular hotel opposite the shrine in Melbourne
7A morning walk/jog
8And then in the evening Stephen MCs and speaks at a panel session on microcredentials. His intro on "AthoCinema"
9Industry, TAFE, and Tertiary Ed folks on the panel
107th - meanwhile on the Katherine River, Northern Territory.
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128th - Katherine South
13A cold night for Rosie so she requests a fire
14Back in NT, the gals hit the road
159th - Kakadu National Park
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17Getting closer to Uluru
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1917th - Olivia's pal and Adelaide housemate, Diana, has been doing a term in Alice Springs as part of physician training and catches up at Tjoritja/West MacDonnell National Park, Namatjira
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21On the Finke River
2218th - Back in Brisbane "baby sitting" the Annerley Dunlop chickens whilst they are at "Woopie"
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2420th - Paulie and Stephen decide it's time to look at what is under that render of their French abode, La Cachette. Especially after the 2021 floods
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2622 - So they recruit Tom who has worked on restorations for the National Trust in the UK
27To our surprise it isn't just stone and brick scraps but ancient stone
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29Tom suggests that the large stones are likely from the ruined 8th Century Benedictine abbey destroyed by the then dominant village protestants in 1570 (and likely before that used by the Romans)
30Pointing to come (lime based of course)
31Pointing done, excess to be brushed off later.
3222nd- still visiting chickens. Owner Kirsten is not only still in at their Woolgoolga pad, but she saved a drowning tourist! Saved this father's life but lost some of her clothes she that took off to swim out to him!
3323rd- The (Dunlop) Blanch gals visited Olivia in Adelaide
3424th - Storm and Daniel return from France and share a bubbles with Paulie and Stephen
3530th - Paulie and Stephen meet Kirsten, Shari, Nice and Ella at GOMA
36At lunch after the discussed how sill inane video messaging can be. And then went ahead and did it. See Athocinema
37Stephen gives a tour of some of Shiota's work
38This one is very similar to her installation at the Adelaide Gallery which is regularly visited now days
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43We make a move to the St Lucia Atherton's pad. To explain in October...
