Engineering A Gorilla & More Old Friends

What a week full of surprises from friends. Firstly Saul visited, then yesterday Phil Aspden arrived just after class. Phil is the other of my closest friends who I met when I was 20 and living in Jake's Monastery. Phil was the one responsible for me moving into the monastery. (in case you are wondering the monastery was not a place of monks - it was an old rooming house full of artists, writers, poets, musicians, writers and other bohemians. I met Phil at an exhibition we both were in just 3 weeks after I moved into the Cross (again - not a religious institution, just the common name for Kings Cross used by locals). He was living in the monastery and let me know a few days later that a room had become available. Saul moved in a few weeks later.

Phil is a very valued friend but he lives a long way away and so we don't see each other very often, although it would be more often if I wasn't such a workaholic. Last night I had a lot of work to do too - I had to do the covers for the sketchbooks for the hens this weekend. But we went up to the Kings Cross Hotel and had a drink at the cocktail bar on the 5th floor. Many years ago Phil had lived there when the hotel was run down. Afterwards I worked on the sketchbooks until 7:30am.

Then earlier today I got an SMS from Trianta, another old friend giving me her new phone number. I hadn't been able to contact her for a long time so it was good to catch up on the phone.

After class I engineered a tripod for my iPhone. I had a Gorillapod tripod and so made a holder from the insert in an iPhone box, a small piece of wood, liquid nails and a few hours of head scratching, cutting, drilling and hope. Now I have a very effective little tripod that is small enough to fit in a pocket and flexible enough with the Gorillapod legs to attach to branches and railings as well as sitting on flat surfaces.. I am very pleased. I will let the glue set for several days and then paint it and put it to work. A productive night and time with friends - a very good few days.

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[Lyn Jablonski]

I use to live at JakesMonastery with a guy called Dave Sanders. we use to live in what was known as the 'penthouse'we were there from 1974-75 before we moved to Lightning Ridge.
Lyn