Steve and I have been busy selecting and capturing frames. This has led to several emails to experts asking for IDs. In the last ten days I have heard from experts on birds, moths, fungi, snails and reptiles. Bless them all.

Prince Charles and Camilla visited Longreach today on their trip to Australia and New Zealand marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and popped into the Qantas Founders Museum.  Nicole sent an email confirming that she and Simon  met them and that she was thrilled and honoured to be chosen to present Prince Charles with a newly published biography of one of the Qantas founders. Bravo Nicole.

Today I attended the private view at Boonah Regional Art Gallery of an exhibition of Jan Drynan’s paintings, an artist I have long admired. In addition to Jan’s main subject of landscape painting, the exhibition included paintings and prints of the anti Coal Seam Gas protest by farmers and environmentalists at a drilling site near her property. On the spur of the moment I decided to buy the painting I liked most of all, a superb Scenic Rim landscape.

Today I delivered the remaining data files and all 116 DVDs to the State Library, well ahead of the deadline for completing the work. Now we have to write a report on the project for which the deadline is 20 December.

Greer Roberts from Ipswich Libraries placed an order for ‘The Rainforest at Night’ following an order from Logan City Library, both within the South East Queensland region and both new customers.

A priority since my return has been to complete ‘The Rainforest at Night’, Supplements 4 to 6 of the video archive. Following an order for 6 sets of DVDs from the Gold Coast City Council, the local shire library placed an order for 2 sets, one of which will be available in Tamborine Mountain Library.

The State Library’s IT whiz emailed Steve confirming pick up of most of the HD data files on which Steve has been working on and off since May.

The Atlas of Living Australia and I have been in contact since the end of 2010 to find avenues of mutual benefit which is easier said than done. Today I received an email from Program Manager Peter Docherty specifying ways in which I could be connecting with ALA. I am not in a position to follow up just yet because I need to deepen my connection with EOL. Once that is done, I can hopefully embark on a similar relationship with ALA.

I received an email from Vanessa with links to the community art residency she and Kat will be engaging in in Japan from 25 August to September 22. Vanessa is also exhibiting a sculpture at the Jing’an International Sculpture Biennial in Shanghai, which she will attend during her Japanese trip.

An email arrived from the Liaison Librarian: Art & Design at Middlesex University, the final home of my alma mater Hornsey Collge of Art. She confirmed her interest in receiving the copies of ‘Gravy’,the college magazine I edited from 1965 to 1967. They are still in the folder in which I kept them after publication.