Summer is here!

For the past few weeks, every week we keep thinking "Summer is here!" Then it gets cold and rains again! Well, this time maybe it's finally arrived!

We're SO looking forward to camping, fishing and kiting opportunities.

Since I came back from Sydney (early September), we've had a really busy time. Rob has been tirelessly looking for work, exploding flies with his new toy, gardening, and some making some very successful fishing expeditions (down at the end of our street). You wouldn't believe what we have now in our backyard - Tons of cherry tomatoes, white potatoes, three colour carrots, corn, beetroot, delicious rocket, coriander, garlic chives to name a few. Last week, we had so many cheery tomatoes that we decide to make tomato chutney, and it's super-yummy so, if you come you might get to try it. Looking at our garden now, we need to make another chutney. Any great tips would be appreciated.

Cherry tomatoes, white potatoes and beetroot

Rob loves Gero, and in particularly, he love fishing from our front yard. He's caught jewfish, tailor and mulloway - we don't need to go to a fish market anymore and pay ridiculous prices for fish.

Two mulloway

 Fishing could be a great fun for a photographer as well 

 Our new friend Toby

And this is me - a dedicated support crew 

Lucky for Rob that he can organise his busy schedule according to the wind conditions as now is the time to fly his new kite .. well, it was until last weekend. Now, we're heading to the really windy season and he needs a 7m kite ideally (Chris Plaat, are you reading this?) as his big one (9m) is hard to control in the local wind conditions. If you know about any 2nd hand kite (7m max) let Rob know. Sorry guys, no pics from me as I'd probably get blown away with my camera  in these windy conditions ... not even talking about the sand getting into my camera body - not a desirable thing.

I'm good and keeping busy (as usual) teaching now five Pilates classes every week and have two more coming up in next month or so. One of these classes is Pilates for kids - I can't wait to get stuck into that one as I can imagine it'll be a challenging exercise and also very rewarding if it goes well. Bring it on!

Last week, I submitted a business proposal (re marketing consultancy) and if it goes ahead I'll have a very "full on" year ahead. However, I still feel very privileged to have some spare time over last four months or so that allowed me to do some further thinking about my future career/things I want to do. As a result, I sent live my 2nd website www.flashmarketing.net. Feel free to share it with your friends or people/businesses that could benefit form this kind of service.  (Happy to work on Sydney/other accounts remotely too!) Thanks.

Over the weekend, we've finished setting up my photography studio where I can now take portraits, family photos or product based photography. What have I learned so far: there are a few advantages to studio flash light - modelling lamp, consistency, power and control. The more I'm learning about photography, the more I'm discovering how much there is to learn. One thing I know for sure is that it's an exciting journey that is full of discovery.

So far, I've had no chance to practice as I was nominated to be a model, however, I'm looking forward to taking some portraits soon. Anybody interested to be my model? Feel free to put up your hand - it won't cost you anything other than your time (one to two hours).

Kat

Overall, we're having a good time and I feel it's been also very productive two months since Rob's departure from CGG.  What next? We'll let you know in our next blog ....