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pinningmywords

Hello and welcome to pinningmywords! My name is Virginia, but for my whole life I’ve been called Pin. I’m an Australian living in Tangier, via Paris (it was a mistake that I ended up in Tangier, but a jolly good one), and the purpose of this blog is to provide you with a snapshot of musings from wherever I sit. At this stage, it’s North Africa. I hope you’ll enjoy, and thank you for following.

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•Lunch on the Mount• I adore catching up with friends and just have returned from the funniest 24 hours with four of my absolute favourites, in beautiful Mount Macedon. Long awaited chatter (it’s been two years), hilarious laughter with tears flowing down our cheeks, completely ridiculous conversations and a little bit of dancing, has left me with sore cheeks. The sweetest little sisters (one of them my goddaughter, Francesca) sat in my bed this morning telling me about the fairies who live in the monkey puzzle tree in their garden, whilst spraying perfume onto their nighties and performing magic tricks. The baby, three, could be found on the floor with one of my rings on each of her fingers and eying off a stick of lipstick which she thought would look great on her clothes and the pretty pink walls. These are friends I’ve known forever and like good wine, they get better and funnier with age. Thank you Charlotte and Geordie, what a memorable weekend. Still laughing @cooteandco @stuartandrews_tag @edwina.machado @riddellscreeknursery ♥️ • • • • #friends #friendship #laughing

•Tasmania• The final leg of my ‘sister journey’ was a visit to Tasmania, where @sophaff has built a life with her husband Nick and their squishable boys, Willy and Archie. They live in a sweet little house (pictured) where sweeping views can be enjoyed across the Tasmanian midlands. We have just had the most enjoyable few days with my first ever meeting with Archie, who turns one on the 12th of December - swipe for our meeting, plus photos with their adored ‘Victorian’ grandparents, my parents. 100 people came for a windswept, cyclonic lunch in the garden on Saturday and tonight, just after I’d landed back in Melbourne, Sophie sent me the final photo in this series (swipe) of her sweet babies searching for Aunty P in the guest bedroom. Safe to say, I’m the proudest, most adoring aunt in the world right now. 10 days of nephews and family - I couldn’t be happier ♥️ • • • • #tasmania #oatlands #family #happiness #love

•Australia• A swipe story. Since I arrived it’s been non stop kiss attacks with my delicious nephews, a book launch for Dad (👏🏽👏🏽), a fleeting time by the sea with @edwinaaff for her birthday weekend, and three days under gum trees in the shadows of mountainous western Victoria with @ccaffleck and her darling little family at their beautiful farm. Time always flys on these visits, and as with all happy moments with family and friends the urge to press pause is ever apparent. As I drift off to sleep tonight following a hilarious and special four days with @sophaff in gusty Tasmania (that’s a whole other post) I’m madly making mental notes about the next week or so, as my trip to my great southern homeland that will always have a special place in my heart, flys by. I’ve driven for miles and have spent such precious times with Mum and Dad as well as my sisters, their husbands and beautiful children - and that is all I could have wished for ♥️ • • • • #australia #family #happiness #home #ruralaustralia

•Albert• We met today for the first time in two years - he was a newborn when I was last home. Nothing is as precious as the boys who belong to my sisters - look out, more to come ♥️ • • • • #nephew #love #family #home #happiness

•Little Pink House• Just around the corner from Mum and Dad is this sweet little house painted in my favourite tone of pink. Places like these are becoming rarer and rarer in Melbourne, with developers smashing them down and replacing them with modern, soulless concrete blocks, underground garage and all. Development over restoration saddens me, because little treasures like these are so pretty and such an important part of our history and makeup. Whenever I walk to our local shopping village for a coffee, I stop to admire this beauty and imagine what is inside. Probably a piano, a dolls house, at least two comfortable chairs, and an eiderdown on each bed. The kitchen would have lino floors and an Aga stove. My idea of paradise- not a square inch of double glazed windows, ceiling to floor, nor a whole lot of on trend furniture that will date in a minute. The old man weeding the overrun garden was delighted with my request of a photo ‘of course,’ he smiled. I hope this little pink piece of history is still here when I next visit ♥️ • • • • #pinkhouse #villa #history #restoration #melbourne

•Dawn landing• There is nothing like the confusion following a long flight, waking up in a position where your elbow is jammed in a hand rest after a dream about falling. Anyway, those are the realities of flying for 24 hours, and this view of my hometown at dawn was a sobering and delightful welcome through blurry eyes and geographical confusion. ‘Where is the bay?’ I pondered. So beautiful and in this moment, I suddenly realised how excited I was to be home ♥️ • • • • #home #longflight #emirates #australia #melbourne #dawn #sunrise

•All my bags are packed...• And I’m not ready to go! I’ll miss you Morocco, if only for three weeks. I’ve never been good at long haul travel; I have whiteboards, checklists, just one suitcase (and maybe a few baskets pretending to be invisible) and it’s teaming with rain outside. The spare bedroom ceiling decided that tonight would be the best night to spring a leak and everything is just a bit damp. Today I slid down to the weavers (last minute must gets for the girls) at about 100% rain o’clock, and also managed to stock up on hair clips and painted rocks (go figure) for godchildren from DARNA, our fabulous women’s cooperative. Anyway, long story short, I’m going to retire now and in about two days, via Madrid and Dubai, I’ll touch down in Melbourne. Heck, only two shirts to iron and I’ll be feeling almost ready to go♥️ • • • • #travel #tanger #tanja #tangier #melbourne #flight

•Bottoms up• All my glorious plants having a well earned drink as it positively teams down with rain in bone dry Tangier. I love rain, but only at night. No, it is one of the most important things in the world and I have seen but a few rainy days throughout my almost two years in Morocco. I often wonder with such little rainfall, how it is we can exist here. But we do, things grow, and days like this where the rain pours down, are a sage reminder of how much we need it. One just needs to tread carefully as one rounds corners stacked with rubbish- yuck, the streets are a slippery mess 🙄 • • • • #tanger #tangier #tanja #rain #green #plants

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