Afternoon all

The year has flown – this will probably be our second last newsletter for 2011. The poinsettias have been ordered for the Christmas tables. We start baking the Christmas food next week.

Our gardens are green and flourishing with this wet and warm weather. Hope the tomatoes don’t get the rust though. For some reason, slugs are getting under the door and spending the nights trailing up and down the red carpet in the hallway. Any remedies known to readers would be welcome.

Lots of new Kazurri beads and necklaces are in. Also new beautiful scarves – lightweight cotton and linen - $20 and pure silk $35 or $45. Leather wallets, iPhone covers and purses expected today. Gifts under $10 – micro fibre glass cleaning cloths, magnetic book marks. Pens, cake lifters, and letter openers will be here next week. A large supply of the Italian glass beads are being blown in Murano as I write.

The ‘Summer Menu’ will be out in December and I am looking forward to have the lovely stone fruit and fresh local berries on hand.

 

 

 

THE BOOK LAUNCH
 
The book launch went well – glad to have it behind me. The wonderful Benedict House staff worked very hard preparing for the event and I am very grateful to them. Genevieve Jacobs and Tommy Murphy were great speakers. Many of my siblings as well as extended family came and also worked hard. We ate, drank, told stories, sang and recited poems into the night.

 

The book is for sale here at Benedict House, at Paperchain Bookstore Manuka, the National Library Bookshop, and online from our website.

Have had some great feedback about the book

“Congratulations again, your book is a beautiful piece of art.”

"I know now that I will definitely have to plan and make a booking for lunch, because after this there will be no way I can just turn up and expect a table."

"I've only had a chance to 'skim' through a copy, but the presentation and publication is such that many authors should take note."

"Steve from at Paper Chain said that it was the best self published book he had seen."

 

Fergus introducing the speakers and telling naughty stories   An enthusiastic Genevieve Jacobs   Brother Ned, Andrew and Natasha manning the bar   Nicole, Margaret and Irene   Tall Fergus and short Aunty Dawn   Piles of Books   Book designer Roxanne Tulk and Kate   Sallie Watson and Jadon Radcliffe   Happy customers

Butterfly cupcakes from the cook book   Kate giving background to the book   Tommy Murphy expanding on the Foreward   Kate signing books   Kate & Jenny Gahn     The book's food photographer Leonie Keogh with Kate     The Ellis sisters and the Clark's from Curtin     Kate & her siblings singing Irish songs     Cousin Rosie & Peter Woods and sister Colleen looking at the memorabilia on the laminex table

 

 

We will close for the Christmas break on Friday 23rd at 5pm, and will re-open with normal trading on Wednesday 4th January.