A LOVELY FEW DAYS

 We just a had a lovely few days staying in the city .... it was my daughter Meg's 18th birthday on Friday (can't believe my baby is 18 !!!) ...... anyway, she said she didn't want "things" for her birthday she wanted experiences, so we saw This is Our Youth

on Wednesday night, drank lots of coffee here, saw some films at

French Film Festival ......

but the highlight had to be seeing Jane Birkin .... (excuse the bad quality of the photo)

she was so amazing, first we saw a little documentary "Souvenirs of Serge" which Jane had made from her own super 8 films, so personal and so beautiful then she did a Q & A after, she was so "real" so unpretentious, so gracious, we were totally captivated and left feeling very happy and very inspired  .....

 

 ..... on our walk home (well, our home away from home, you may remember it from this post ) we saw this dress in a shop window, it was so lovely and such a perfect "turning 18 dress" that I did have to break the "no things" rule .....

so the next day (her actual birthday) we went and bought it ....

 it will always have such lovely memories attached to it,

 it can be her "Jane Birkin Birthday dress" !!!

It really was a lovely few days, we had a nice family dinner Friday night and have been catching up with family and friends over the weekend  ....

 which has been so special,
just like my girl 

XXX

Oh and we have one more "experience" this Wednesday, we are seeing this band .... should be a nice way to top off a lovely birthday week !!!

NOTICE BOARD

This is the noticeboard in our kitchen ....

and this is the play we are looking very forward to seeing on Wednesday night  .....

and the rest is just lots of favorite stuff .....

Louise Bourgeois ....

and Picasso postcards ....

smoking nuns  ......

a paper lantern .....

favorite cards .....

a feather from a special day .......

and Serge Gainsbourg .....

speaking of .... Jane Birkin is presenting a documentary on Serge and a
Q & A at The Chauvel on Thursday night as part of The French Film Festival .....
so excited to be seeing such an iconic woman, actually very, very excited !!!

WEEKEND

We visited our little foal today, she is growing up so fast and becoming very tame, she will feed out of your hand and even lets my mum give her cuddles .... we finally decided on the name "Edie" for her, we have always had a soft spot for Little Edie from Grey Gardens and also  

Edie Sedgwick ... she really is the most adorable foal.

My mum also has some other new additions, some little baby birds which she breeds and hand rears .... such funny little things, they are spoon fed and already so tame .... 

this is the dad of one of them .... 

....  and this is mum of the other two ... so they will become a lot more attractive with age.

We're off to see this play tomorrow night at Sydney Theatre Company .... it stars Ewan Leslie who I mentioned at the end of this post .... looking forward to watching him again, has anyone seen it yet ?

Hope you had a wonderful weekend.

XXX