Back in January this year, we hired a 4wd (a brand new Mitsubishi Pajero) for a trip to Barrington Tops National Park. After a few days of awesome 4-wheel-driving and camping, we had to unfortunately return the Pajero to the hire car company, which happened to be on the eastern fringes of the Sydney CBD. After dropping the car off early on a Saturday morning, Shell and I wandered through sleepy Sydney up to the Rocks, and had a wonderful breaky and coffee. On a whim, we had a look at the Rocks Market which was just coming alive after we finished breakfast.

We happened to wander past a stall with a bunch of original paintings, one of which happened to catch our eye. On a complete whim, we ended up purchasing two of Ronnie’s paintings. Both are musically themed – one has a piano with sheet music, and the second has a cello and a saxophone – and are painted in rich earthy tones that match our colour scheme really well. Ronnie delivered them to us about a week later (in mid-January), and ever since, they have been propped against the wall in our lounge room, still wrapped in bubble-wrap. And now to the point of this trip down memory-lane: we have finally hung our pictures! This also means that I have now used our excellent Makita hammer-drill (along with one of our tungsten-carbide tipped drill bits) to drill into our lovely red lounge room wall in order to install the hooks for the paintings, but most importantly we *finally* have our two paintings hanging on our loungeroom wall, nicely lit up by halogen spot-lights. They look fantastic