looking about us with tourist eyes

I'm part way through the next quilting project. It is not going quite as I'd hoped and since the deadline is about 5 weeks away I've put it on hold for a bit. In the meantime I want to spend a bit of time mastering (says she hopefully) scanning and converting some of my old slides and photos. Some of my earliest quilt photos are slides, so it will be good to 'see' them again - not sure they will be good enough to post though! Slide evenings went out of fashion years ago (not talking about quilt pictures here) and we never replaced the projector when the globe blew. It is a bit ironic now, that everyone wants to show you their photos on their laptops, or through the TV set... 

Went into the city on Australia day to see "Iron Lady" which we really enjoyed. (Thought Meryl Streep did a brilliant job - I didn't 'see her' all the way through as I have in some of her films). While there, we saw some of the delightful, clever, and amusing knitted bikes on Rundle Street, for the Tour Down Under. Here are three of them

 Then looking around the entrance to Adelaide University, I thought the sights, which we are accustomed to and take for granted, were the sort of thing I would photograph in another city...

 Enjoy!

Conundrum and calamity

I've completed my first quilt for the year! It's a post card and I finished it a few days after the last post. I have been too busy watching tennis to put up a picture before. I am hardly a sports fanatic but I enjoy watching the Hopman Cup and the Australian Open etc in January. The Tour Down Under is on at the moment too, but unfortunately (or maybe it is fortunately !) there is no live coverage of that. Might catch the local stage on Saturday. It is always a great atmosphere and you get a couple of chances to see all the riders as they do a couple of loops.
Here is my 'Calamity'

 

 The conundrum is

I have been driving past this on the way to work for some weeks now. What is it for then? Mind you, if it were to park in, maybe not everyone would use it. I took this photo at Willunga a while back.

It is a bike rack for, well, almost everyone!