Ash.
Trish and Liv came for dinner.
Lia (and Derek) for mint tea.
Viv, Josh and Nigel came by. Josh shouted us coffees from the cafe.
Oscar demanded a banana.
As a slight surprise, last night the sculpture garden was filled with people celebrating Canberra itself, as part of something called the Enlighten festival. From about 5pm, in amongst cooking for guests I was approached by a steady flow of people. The festival had many events (something that looked like a reenactment of Parisian life) and even a stage with live trapeze artists. So the Homestead Unit was also treated like some sort of entertainment. I am interested in people but I'm not going to simplify my relationship to an audience by being endlessly accommodating. I have limits. I experience shyness and physical and emotional exhaustion.
On Friday I decided to install a simple fence using star pickets and a yellow and green patterned cord. Partly I was encouraged by a suggestion by Andrea and also by Bianca Hester's propositional work, to cordon off a small patch of public grass so that it can grow wild.
