{"id":1606,"date":"2014-01-20T04:36:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T03:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2014-01-20T05:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T04:24:55","slug":"happy-137th-birthday-may-gibbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Happy 137th Birthday, May Gibbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t take a very long stay in Australia, before you hear about Snugglepot and Cuddlepie or the big Bad Banksia men. \u00a0No generic fairies here but botanically correct adorable little creatures that were\u00a0fashioned on Eucalyptus gumnuts and their flowers. \u00a0The Banksia men were drawn from\u00a0Banksia cones that dry on the branch for up to three years and become very wizened. \u00a0It seems it was easy for Gibbs to fashion these old cones into wicked old men. who might threaten her Gumnut babies. All of their adventures are\u00a0captured in books by Gibbs and also in a Sunday cartoon.<\/p>\n

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View from Nutcote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May Gibbs came out from England with her artist parents at the age of four. \u00a0She was a children’s author, illustrationist and cartoonist. She was the happy owner of Scottish terriers and lived with the Scotties and her husband at Nutcote in Neutral Bay. \u00a0James and I went to have a look at Nutcote on Sunday and drop in on the Scotties’ Birthday party.<\/p>\n

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Scotty taking in the party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nutcote was a small but perfect house created for May Gibbs and her husband Bertram Kelly, by architect, BJ Waterhouse. \u00a0It had waterviews from most of the rooms and a lovely balcony overlooking the water. \u00a0Breezes waft amiably through the house to counter act Sydney’s warm summer weather and it had all the modern conveniences of the time, including indoor plumbing.<\/p>\n

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Nutcote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Children were blowing bubbles and Scotties were running around. \u00a0Over the PA, came the announcement ” Please remember to use gloves to separate dueling Scotties”. \u00a0We did hear a bit of barking but the Scotties were on their best behavior.<\/p>\n

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The Teahouse had wonderful cupcakes, Icy pops and Teas on offer. May Gibb’s Nutcote is a secret and enchanting place to visit with your own Scotty or little gumnut baby. \u00a0As we left, a group of children from Liverpool arrived, not only was it their first time to the Scotties’ Birthday party but their first time over the Harbour Bridge. We think they rather enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

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View from the balcony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It doesn’t take a very long stay in Australia, before you hear about Snugglepot and Cuddlepie or the big Bad Banksia men. \u00a0No generic fairies here but botanically correct adorable little creatures that were\u00a0fashioned on Eucalyptus gumnuts and their flowers. \u00a0The Banksia men were drawn from\u00a0Banksia cones that dry on the branch for up to … Continue reading Happy 137th Birthday, May Gibbs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,37,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-may-gibbs","category-secret-sydney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-pU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}