Thursday & Friday June 11 & 12, 2009 (diary)

I am busily working on The Martinshof Story and the text is coming along fine. There are still many photos to process and to compile into a separate Gallery for jewelry only. I am most pleased the way Maud Smit's meticulous design drawings have come out. I took close up photographs of them, then worked them up using Adobe Photoshop Elements, a marvelous application.

We are well and truly in the dry season here now, the weather is absolutely wonderful. The days are sunny with a bright blue sky, not a cloud in sight, with temperatures in the low 30s. Coming home from bridge late at night (around midnight) it has cooled down to about 15°C. Early morning it must be approaching around 10 degrees now and will get well below that in July.

The Darwin Airport Gateway Motel had its first visitor on Thursday night and officially opened today (Friday) with several more travelers coming in. I will take pictures this weekend or on Monday.
I am progressing through my antibiotics course and are starting to feel a lot better. My bridge partner Freda too is on heavy drugs. Something bit her (perhaps a spider) which after almost a week caused a nasty infection. She still plays bridge though, two sessions tomorrow in a teams competition.

Saturday & Sunday June 13 & 14, 2009 (diary)

I am playing bridge this Saturday afternoon, so I leave early and on my way drive past the new motel of Kim and Andrew. It looks really nice and I take over 70 photos of the various features in the reception and rooms.
The large umbrellas for the pool have not arrived yet, neither have the decorative prints for all the rooms so I will come back later in the week to photograph those.
After a quick sushi lunch the afternoon bridge session. Freda is not feeling her best and we do rather poorly. The evening session is a great improvement however when we finish second, ending up in the middle overall.

I arrive back home at around midnight. I am eager to see my photographic efforts and end up working until 3 AM on the photos, getting about a dozen of them into shape for possible use on the Best Western website. Once in bed I can not sleep, my mind keeps thinking out new projects to photograph in the motel.
Sunday a quiet and sleepy day, watching TV and emailing Kim some photos she is very happy with. My coughing has diminished considerably thanks goodness, those penicillin antibiotic pills are working well.

Monday June 15, 2009 (diary)

Today I receive a DVD from my brother Claus with some very old black and white films of around 1944. We had settled in at our home Martinshof. The films are of us children running around in the woods etc. but no good coverage of our home and other points of interest from a historic perspective. Funny how lightly we always regard the present, with no consideration at all of how we will wish to look back on it when it has become the (cherished) past.

It is only these last 20 months because my writing of this Blog that I have become more conscious of recording features of the present which may become of interest when looking back on it in the future.

I have sent some more photos on to Kim for the new Motel's website. I will do a few more of the pool this week.
In the evening Mairead and I have a great night at bridge. We get many interesting games coming our way, excellent testing material for some more intricate bidding and play, good fun.