vie dans le village

Sharing of images and observations of an Australian artist now living a the South of France. Links to interesting places. Water colour is the medium of first choice with attention to colour and light. Katherine is becoming well known for her bold use of colour and strong images of village life.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Australian summer

Greetings all from sunny Australia.
We arrived after digging ourselves out of the snow on the 3 rd of Feb and a few days later drove to visit friends down south. While there we went for a bit of a tourist drive and checked out a cave in a National Park, somewhat isolated and wild.
Well ,Chris fell deep inside the cave and broke his back in 4 places and broke both feet. Then followed 6 weeks of hospital with him laying flat and not moving, and getting very frustrated. I stayed with my friends about an hour from the hospital. Each day I drove up to visit him and help him pass the time. He is now out back on his feet and recovering really well. The long term outlook is very good, though I think he would be wise to leave stone masonry to someone else, and major demolistion/renovations well lets say I won't be too disappointed that he can't do that. ( I get to be the offsider...well Im getting too old or lazy or girly to keep that up).

It took a few hours for rescue to get him out and 24 hours in hospital before we had some idea of the damage done. He was very lucky and though he has some pain and is surprised at how tired he is expected to make a complete recovery.

We are staying in Australia until he takes his back brace off, (he looks a little like robo cop) so the long flight will be more comfortable. His permanent residecy is due in the next month which is another reason to hang here until it's completed.