last Thursday we helped the fabulous witchy artist Gab Bates install her work for Homeward Bound at the Coal Loader in Waverton which opens today
it was a fine day out the sun was sparkling on the harbour, the old wharf is fenced off now but friends who grew up in the area remember playing in the ruins when they were kids
and I turned 66, not doing too shabbily for an old chook
we celebrated with coffee and birthday cake at the cafe
look forward to seeing the rest of the show next week!
Homeward Bound with Gab Bates at the Coal Loader
Posted: March 10, 2021 by Mo Crow in It's Crow TimeTags: exhibitions, Gab Bates, inspiration
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Happy Happy Birthday Mo!! Chook? meaning? chicken?
Love those houses presented this way.
chook is Aussie slang for chicken & an old chook is an old woman (can be a form of endearment or not …depending on the tone of voice, hehe!). Gab’s home protection amulets are magic, she made one for the dream
Happy birthday!!!
(((Jude))) it’s a bit of a shock really being officially old enough to apply for the Age Pension here in Australia!
Ha, I know the feeling!
Happy 66, “old chook.” Only lagging by 10 years ! Will raise a glass tonight.
(((Di))) so wish I had bought that Vintage Chic singlet I spotted at Paddington Markets when I was 50, I could wear it now no worries!
Happy birthday Mo! You look amazing, actually.
(((Dee))) I still love Keith Richard’s quip from awhile back “Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to be!”
You are a beautiful “chook”, especially next to the lovely installation. Happy birthday sister Pisces!
(((Hazel))) Happy Birthday to all us folk of the fishy persuasion!
Oh there was a lovely dear woman, an old chook,
Her wondrous, creative art should be photographed and placed in a book.
For she has turned 66 and that’s a celebration,
You see, she is aged to Perfection!
Feliz Cumpleanos (Happy Birthday) dear Mo
You are simply wonderful to know.
(((Marti))) you are a treasure, we’re still finding lots of fun this stage of the game !
Happy birthday❤️🎂🌈so can you retire now?
(((Lana))) not yet, looks like we’ll be gardening here in the Big Smoke for at least another year. The dream of one day retiring and moving to the Blue Mountains shimmers like a mirage on the far horizon…
Believe me when I tell you to keep dreaming. My dream came true even though I could never work out how it was going to happen but it did so you’ll get there as long as you believe you will🌈
(((Lana))) you’re a treasure one of things I really look forward to is going for a big drive and catching up when we do retire!
Happy Birthday Mo, and many happy returns!! Hope you’re having a lovely day. hugs and smiles from Marg n Mike….oxox
(((Marg & Mike))) I’ve been celebrating since Thursday when we installed Gab’s work! Our friends Richard and Marika shouted lunch at the SH Ervin Gallery on Observatory Hill and we saw the 50 years of the Papunya Tula art movement
One of the great joys of living in Australia for over half a century is seeing the Aboriginal Art Movement become a major force in the world, it will be so good when the government gets around to honouring the first people with the Uluru Statement from the Heart first presented in 2017
To top it off Trudy, one of our favourite gardening customers took us out for lunch in Randwick yesterday, feeling very spoiled!
Dear Mo, from one old chook to another…..happy belated birthday………….<3
(((Martine))) it’s amazing to think that turning 16 was half a century ago!
Feels like another life………….
as my old friend and mentor in glass engraving Anne Dybka said so many years ago, “We get many lives in this one lifetime!”
Happy Belated Birthday and Blessings galore …
(((Tina))) this getting old caper has it’s challenges, Old Man Crow is scheduled for knee replacement surgery soon so we have turned Chelmsford St into a health retreat to get the man’s knee as fit as possible for a good recovery with the gardening, riding our bicycles most days and started doing Tai Chi in the local park with Ric Bolzan, he is such a good teacher, love his Silk Reeling Tutorial
MC – great to reach that milestone – have more happy ones. Grand that friends can help each other out with installations etc. Go well. B
(((Barry))) the Coal Loader is a really interesting space, there’s a lift as well as an old stairway down to the 3 tunnels with sandstone rooms interconnected by low doorways that can be explored and some beautiful terraces which are looking lush with all the rain, look forward to exploring the show next week!
Happy yesterday birthday Mo! I do love a week long celebration! My mum used to say ‘old age is not for wimps’ – best to you both as you prepare for knee recovery.
(((Fiona))) it’s been an excellent celebration and a good distraction as I don’t like to think too much about the actual nuts and bolts of knee replacement surgery!
Happy Birthday!
(((Patty))) we’re still celebrating, today we are going to Lennox Street Studios Open Day & I have found a home for the starry gloves aka Reaching for the Stars!