phew ..

It's all done :) Now the exhibition can just hang quietly on the walls and look lovely for a few months!

The opening was fantastic, with lots of the artwork selling on the night (three for me! plus orders! yippee!) ... It really is quite an emotional exhibition and the generall feedback was about how scarey the images (both mine and fellow artists') were in their depiction of the devistation that is happening to the Lower Murray Lakes and Wetland AS WE SPEAK! ...

Only yesterday mum rang and said that they have started on the infrastructure for the weir at Wellington, and once that is complete they are saying the next step will be to flood the lower lakes with sea water ... this just breaks my heart .. and NO it wasn't EVER like that, because there was ALWAYS some sort of inflow from the Murray to keep the waters in the Lower Lakes 'brackish' not pure sea water ... it will destroy the ecosystem down there to such an extent that it will NEVER be the same again ...

And Rudd thinks he's solved all the problems by supplying water to the irrigators via a pipe line from Mannum! Are you kidding me?? Yeah, that will solve it - take MORE water out of the already starving waterway!! VIC and NSW irrigators are back to 30% of their allocation ... STOP TAKING WATER FROM THE MURRAY WHEN THERE IS NO WATER TO TAKE!!!!!!!

Surely - if there is not enough water for the environment, then there is not enough water for the irrigators either!!!

There is a river support rally being held at Goolwa this weekend on Sunday 10th August at 10.30 am to march across the bridge. Please, if you haven't seen how different this environment looks from only 12 months ago, come down and see for yourself .. spend some money in these towns that are dying because nobody is holidaying down there any more ... and help us tell our Government that is JUST ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH!!!!

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Stepping down from the soap box now ...

We had some fun today with some new 'special' outfits ... my darling SIL Merryn purchased some new lights and we were having a play with them as well ... my girls certainly know how to strike a pose ... and all this with Max jumping around like a loony yelling "look at meeeee!" ...