tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26643934079247336812024-03-19T19:59:12.587+10:30Drifting through lifesometimes on the way to your dream, you get lost and find a better oneRiverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comBlogger3424125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-79889160738724501602024-03-17T01:00:00.001+10:302024-03-17T01:00:00.136+10:30Sunday Selections # 680<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nothing rude or vulgar though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. <a href="https://fromthehighrise.blogspot.com.au">Andrew</a> is one. <a href="https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com">Messymimi</a> is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Elephant's Child</span> is taking a break for a while.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com">Wisewebwoman</a> has also been joining us occasionally.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Let's begin with something delicious:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMvdC-Exm5AKweJghbE4s3aPV0Ts1gxssNjm_mufNB4LATpt73hGq2p0DZk3y3F9PEsOq_IMK9oOaYCFjZ700I3R63SoGYqkhdDdMV6r1NtZd8flt-71BCnx-9Naq2rZwOthCQlsoJMvsknW4dejkF0YDpVwQDrMbWz8XJM4euxLJ9HBxrR3EdbIUBvk/s5184/A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMvdC-Exm5AKweJghbE4s3aPV0Ts1gxssNjm_mufNB4LATpt73hGq2p0DZk3y3F9PEsOq_IMK9oOaYCFjZ700I3R63SoGYqkhdDdMV6r1NtZd8flt-71BCnx-9Naq2rZwOthCQlsoJMvsknW4dejkF0YDpVwQDrMbWz8XJM4euxLJ9HBxrR3EdbIUBvk/s320/A.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">my favourite brand of ice cream, Golden North, has a new flavour, Sea Salted Caramel, so of course I had to try it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's very nice, but too sweet, even for my sweet tooth, too caramelly, a touch more sea salt might improve that, but I won't buy it again.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pqHto1CoOmwFx0E6xXEBVxR-FpL4FCPIWFj398z_7MXab0JcZTRMYKIVwnFUWNPzu5csPWeXW7osOWQtUqhAD1GUjLzHewGXuDTM0XYKvjMAc1Uy9rBitDbA8MYHPGKVpnyHFUBA4WzOPLa-MndqxEKc9pNLJ6huu7PMCdaanZwfM2YTfvHWxa6qoC4/s5184/B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pqHto1CoOmwFx0E6xXEBVxR-FpL4FCPIWFj398z_7MXab0JcZTRMYKIVwnFUWNPzu5csPWeXW7osOWQtUqhAD1GUjLzHewGXuDTM0XYKvjMAc1Uy9rBitDbA8MYHPGKVpnyHFUBA4WzOPLa-MndqxEKc9pNLJ6huu7PMCdaanZwfM2YTfvHWxa6qoC4/s320/B.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">it's made locally in a small town right here in my own state</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdHUtJNN2N_kLuYOks8ufqgz8FQQhREPGAknoXeCYLT7zuHenbBbDqtiYQNzGVvCLbPNi4pc0vuxi-MzB2_runj1DmaP7qEOGSbeJ1GcxE_2kGtc_O1lJrw0PKcNFCi0HE-iuYhBQ38oRJelQexUSTr5KI6kBL7ElI-m_xz1_GYyRBZ6nvinK5BM5ZWM/s5184/C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdHUtJNN2N_kLuYOks8ufqgz8FQQhREPGAknoXeCYLT7zuHenbBbDqtiYQNzGVvCLbPNi4pc0vuxi-MzB2_runj1DmaP7qEOGSbeJ1GcxE_2kGtc_O1lJrw0PKcNFCi0HE-iuYhBQ38oRJelQexUSTr5KI6kBL7ElI-m_xz1_GYyRBZ6nvinK5BM5ZWM/s320/C.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and contains NO palm oil, NO gluten and NO nuts, so it's good for those who have allergies.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQGkEBBmu5p_0z6zCoTIDAp5BG4VNsbFEg5lfh0xXayWrNYUpW721Q7XvA-m9G0njlbfO9AxbXsQ5Lnt2uaiMQ4Opx0lf4b6qn96fsSbjKNVEBtzj81xos7px1AjbZARQoVg3dB4Rd7EdSV9OJKcHlyD1AnVuxRAYVtm7QEpjf-ufZxwPTiA0gk-DNvE/s4032/D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQGkEBBmu5p_0z6zCoTIDAp5BG4VNsbFEg5lfh0xXayWrNYUpW721Q7XvA-m9G0njlbfO9AxbXsQ5Lnt2uaiMQ4Opx0lf4b6qn96fsSbjKNVEBtzj81xos7px1AjbZARQoVg3dB4Rd7EdSV9OJKcHlyD1AnVuxRAYVtm7QEpjf-ufZxwPTiA0gk-DNvE/s320/D.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">here I go again, another round of dental visits, this year I'm having two cracked crowns replaced, one this last week and one in two weeks time</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKbd26F6gUHvk4zqXZx9c1XwcOfIsGY-AxpaqpuXEUydiDrX1Gl4RFieI0v0uiTYOGSH9KdiqEEqoxrHIxZXPX98ZcYLIh0jWacVL3iM7jWmAw17qdZXPz6NTyzLCxHQfNAtNVckv5cN3CLh_QVGBXZwu8WfFx5jl3nL_BjT8hPRAwX8lMkXysuEJrFwc/s4032/E.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKbd26F6gUHvk4zqXZx9c1XwcOfIsGY-AxpaqpuXEUydiDrX1Gl4RFieI0v0uiTYOGSH9KdiqEEqoxrHIxZXPX98ZcYLIh0jWacVL3iM7jWmAw17qdZXPz6NTyzLCxHQfNAtNVckv5cN3CLh_QVGBXZwu8WfFx5jl3nL_BjT8hPRAwX8lMkXysuEJrFwc/s320/E.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this nice side table is just inside the entrance and has a water dispenser with disposable cups</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzibGrDaMvKKsXb_ailOsRHdOHc0DxnYOcJlZ1mh08QTDWP1MAv2UJItHOTBaVdioOo391bt1Fd-H-zb2qJX8SdNVWBGn3SEq5H2z1XWZFDGvPguWDpaGJg9_UkhPCoj8Ixl-npUs11drBokSGs7qJYF6s-VgaRSdszx17mLJIGGYYS7XWm4KJc0IEsgE/s4032/F.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzibGrDaMvKKsXb_ailOsRHdOHc0DxnYOcJlZ1mh08QTDWP1MAv2UJItHOTBaVdioOo391bt1Fd-H-zb2qJX8SdNVWBGn3SEq5H2z1XWZFDGvPguWDpaGJg9_UkhPCoj8Ixl-npUs11drBokSGs7qJYF6s-VgaRSdszx17mLJIGGYYS7XWm4KJc0IEsgE/s320/F.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">on the way home I noticed a new bakery where there used to be a gift shop. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlOq5S3deLxtynWDK0qY2jnIU6ZF_UJBZH4iLshe939MtG3yYnFar1UPOglJUx9ZPdksLlWa878YVI_NIlGgL2mMZ8nYGUVRjFzHcaeDgPnLvJSKpfhgZwVyRwD55RXA18mOtD8zDP9D04htF20yhE8-9e8Pb2PzIaG6LRuvrOBNOL9UpXiC7nuRc8ak/s4032/G.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlOq5S3deLxtynWDK0qY2jnIU6ZF_UJBZH4iLshe939MtG3yYnFar1UPOglJUx9ZPdksLlWa878YVI_NIlGgL2mMZ8nYGUVRjFzHcaeDgPnLvJSKpfhgZwVyRwD55RXA18mOtD8zDP9D04htF20yhE8-9e8Pb2PzIaG6LRuvrOBNOL9UpXiC7nuRc8ak/s320/G.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and this magnificent monstera is just the first in a long line stretching down a driveway</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQovzljALeq3dWzHqGS_TMM3vH7RHlj8m57xhnOVSpLxJZbpCM8CoGD_OBlX6RvJW_V2ILd2L2DXDYGz1rY9deDBO8iov3eU7e6Gj4qJrFAFENeBtJwmZ-XFaJgs1XGwVpnzFBRrOnXUxns-DpUk1MZKKP3mJXdvTZDhUpJPNGVhD_06LPWsLHH3PkpIc/s4032/H.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQovzljALeq3dWzHqGS_TMM3vH7RHlj8m57xhnOVSpLxJZbpCM8CoGD_OBlX6RvJW_V2ILd2L2DXDYGz1rY9deDBO8iov3eU7e6Gj4qJrFAFENeBtJwmZ-XFaJgs1XGwVpnzFBRrOnXUxns-DpUk1MZKKP3mJXdvTZDhUpJPNGVhD_06LPWsLHH3PkpIc/s320/H.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">trees in the city are losing leaves already, we could almost imagine it is autumn if the sun wasn't still so hot.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDK406xiMmHYmE6scf0Eq60w22GIPXuEBR2MLytrW-sA5CerhFfkf4fROzdtFVgKKENW8THBbb2tZ11JVt2iZZUeOjDv8ld0hpkHpfbu-WE4lBWWjLM1OlWZdsxXyI0mw4Dmd3c_rP3UaJ4yK_IxOJdjkkBe6H0Pr0ecjKIM2Qb03h3v_nUwbE_VmpDHQ/s1024/I.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="948" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDK406xiMmHYmE6scf0Eq60w22GIPXuEBR2MLytrW-sA5CerhFfkf4fROzdtFVgKKENW8THBbb2tZ11JVt2iZZUeOjDv8ld0hpkHpfbu-WE4lBWWjLM1OlWZdsxXyI0mw4Dmd3c_rP3UaJ4yK_IxOJdjkkBe6H0Pr0ecjKIM2Qb03h3v_nUwbE_VmpDHQ/s320/I.JPG" width="296" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">in the gardens of the hospital where "no-one" works she has been seeing plenty of butterflies this year</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimHUvH_tEAD0cHGOYpEvHPpc23ChPRkUIXNnHRiWn_WvdQNFyskb5CsMYQQz1cE6xt_LbvpZ82mEyNyZo4dAWnBti2ulNVBLCsKMTIa5-0uChT5JVW-o0xF_bKsqlB7jhYvgcfWHMB3Mt7ISWLps-KF_dUXusY51BgBZNIbdza7HQLUzCncJyNNq3xSOU/s508/J.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="508" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimHUvH_tEAD0cHGOYpEvHPpc23ChPRkUIXNnHRiWn_WvdQNFyskb5CsMYQQz1cE6xt_LbvpZ82mEyNyZo4dAWnBti2ulNVBLCsKMTIa5-0uChT5JVW-o0xF_bKsqlB7jhYvgcfWHMB3Mt7ISWLps-KF_dUXusY51BgBZNIbdza7HQLUzCncJyNNq3xSOU/s320/J.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">very pretty aren't they?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVjxoUkd4qE1qcnHijnqfmchZGJ10llSijQSs3TrwyEB1WpuR71xFb3M3ogKsa1QLfZC0u-hX-6r6iAmFz40skr5It5iD9ZJL-qOypBhscTdD1G7GIucGgb0wjduX0qxRy0ZyN5OaAV0e_OrKvPdsaHtCQwb48TVl_hIdQlHXZRr3s3vd4dYpcR6Gftcs/s4032/K.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVjxoUkd4qE1qcnHijnqfmchZGJ10llSijQSs3TrwyEB1WpuR71xFb3M3ogKsa1QLfZC0u-hX-6r6iAmFz40skr5It5iD9ZJL-qOypBhscTdD1G7GIucGgb0wjduX0qxRy0ZyN5OaAV0e_OrKvPdsaHtCQwb48TVl_hIdQlHXZRr3s3vd4dYpcR6Gftcs/s320/K.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this blue-tongued lizard is a new young boy, there used to be an older one living in that drain hole but he died several years ago and I didn't think I'd ever see one here again. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HEIoU1HJl_Mu9BM5-5yCJUhpDD6rd4a6BLxjMGaevuqkUT2jhtBkRILmSajCTkRlXAxiHxaRkuHsF68SIDND8c9MjhRHxRJKcj8FVDxFAwpHcwm_Amxk6ohwizO1jW184ls4GmqJh-b7E0kb85uvwN7mnRLzTXqUglwlOukm84DT2TX6PxoYP-nM1co/s4032/L.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HEIoU1HJl_Mu9BM5-5yCJUhpDD6rd4a6BLxjMGaevuqkUT2jhtBkRILmSajCTkRlXAxiHxaRkuHsF68SIDND8c9MjhRHxRJKcj8FVDxFAwpHcwm_Amxk6ohwizO1jW184ls4GmqJh-b7E0kb85uvwN7mnRLzTXqUglwlOukm84DT2TX6PxoYP-nM1co/s320/L.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">so you can imagine how happy I was to see him. I named him Bluey. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjph5c6tGF_8FARFET6YtOPy3OFukuSAuNddRni_drQBq5Y5MnSfKphkWCW9qAfKACnVzjoTErKXeUmFEt2j7_H8wX2byQgaXOGKw6nu4K62cjF21RV6XqIw98sjdR0LF_F66JlosOMiM49e1-RuHBcb4i5JpzfqJ80STsY8v0C5dvu4_zIQ6-mZSGBddw/s4032/M.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjph5c6tGF_8FARFET6YtOPy3OFukuSAuNddRni_drQBq5Y5MnSfKphkWCW9qAfKACnVzjoTErKXeUmFEt2j7_H8wX2byQgaXOGKw6nu4K62cjF21RV6XqIw98sjdR0LF_F66JlosOMiM49e1-RuHBcb4i5JpzfqJ80STsY8v0C5dvu4_zIQ6-mZSGBddw/s320/M.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this tiny skink, also called a drop-tail lizard was (hold onto your hats!) INSIDE my pantry cupboard, I have no idea how he got there, but I opened the door to get the olive oil and saw him skittering amongst the cans trying to hide, or escape. I scooped him into a clean jug and took him out to this pot plant.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Let's take a trip back in time now, to 2022:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlI1yp7-yAK_D6qzBA5RMl-WRIInfU5paim6VxQvl_eQEh6sXzTa8Nk5BACnnKfQp_I9iZgWozEOViJhhyphenhyphengW4MHfAlFbr-tVpaYOoI2gJZFrab8WM5YFGYS5vQvLmDlnbh89tE4pDN3ApKX4jzzD0zT9Z67EELAZkrHXwfOHUrIiRBe2fRlmpQJnJa7ok/s480/N.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlI1yp7-yAK_D6qzBA5RMl-WRIInfU5paim6VxQvl_eQEh6sXzTa8Nk5BACnnKfQp_I9iZgWozEOViJhhyphenhyphengW4MHfAlFbr-tVpaYOoI2gJZFrab8WM5YFGYS5vQvLmDlnbh89tE4pDN3ApKX4jzzD0zT9Z67EELAZkrHXwfOHUrIiRBe2fRlmpQJnJa7ok/s320/N.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">2022, June 2nd, the girls are just a few hours old, that's my son J, the proud Daddy</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9hVvHWmvZodcN5v0vlFeCz26b9SD_gaq1Ru8G7rciD0d1IXT7nWp62sANNJ0W3MGvaOJZIaes6Gfg8r13ORue8CbWvHddw5e5tNtqoNLUenmsOwMnIAfX23wNup2PhY7CEiSVUhPDMqBbIkoealrDixww6AtSCfTS20R6ag8BTNjUyPYcEv9ktsiusU/s755/O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="562" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9hVvHWmvZodcN5v0vlFeCz26b9SD_gaq1Ru8G7rciD0d1IXT7nWp62sANNJ0W3MGvaOJZIaes6Gfg8r13ORue8CbWvHddw5e5tNtqoNLUenmsOwMnIAfX23wNup2PhY7CEiSVUhPDMqBbIkoealrDixww6AtSCfTS20R6ag8BTNjUyPYcEv9ktsiusU/s320/O.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">one week later they were doing well</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLFEmMKuq8MW4ao5pe4uQZgttXotZOLCYpJ91r-iuoT22GNuveSC-AXnmnu4_DeCyUMIevbrYrUOZZhi17LXlQVhHfArUBht-BgPS4S-7Qg_WOsiVxIu02CJZM8BGB2A6XLazqXpV9QSTefVw6J6nXdeLJEXBSHSecm_WzoUzcygfoeSDfEzzNW7ICmg/s640/P.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="460" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLFEmMKuq8MW4ao5pe4uQZgttXotZOLCYpJ91r-iuoT22GNuveSC-AXnmnu4_DeCyUMIevbrYrUOZZhi17LXlQVhHfArUBht-BgPS4S-7Qg_WOsiVxIu02CJZM8BGB2A6XLazqXpV9QSTefVw6J6nXdeLJEXBSHSecm_WzoUzcygfoeSDfEzzNW7ICmg/s320/P.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">once they got home, they liked to hold hands while they slept</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrcvn4aQ82fvTjFWtAV7ixLRYfi0Ut5SoEsaRZqvTcYkYq2CausXihTzE6wiS1jnkmQlTIj-unl1gGI1ErGfWnilkMcDJ51Lfqqo2hOX626Cwsz0KelL8lsSh5k4rIf8hnhzU7KzWq6oxogREleWJDCQAiB-AdZRGLR-xKY0Of-F9jklJ9lhuglqMDsMg/s1440/Q.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrcvn4aQ82fvTjFWtAV7ixLRYfi0Ut5SoEsaRZqvTcYkYq2CausXihTzE6wiS1jnkmQlTIj-unl1gGI1ErGfWnilkMcDJ51Lfqqo2hOX626Cwsz0KelL8lsSh5k4rIf8hnhzU7KzWq6oxogREleWJDCQAiB-AdZRGLR-xKY0Of-F9jklJ9lhuglqMDsMg/s320/Q.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">if they were in the pram, Ana held her own hands for comfort</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEv9Wv3KEJZLUL7HKkGRR9RNrZF4x-zDJetS-k0tCDDdeTzLKSBKEfsVXVAfSZsQLlhE4eHobyZHYFPrbeuL33oR0PH3O0Z37tw6KsolQeS-vWhK1DKbu2P0V17RaT555y0IpNS3VR4QVBt-wwAuLulB8inj_9RP4E74J5mxG0_gkuhJRe0QD1QKNbw3k/s1263/R.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1263" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEv9Wv3KEJZLUL7HKkGRR9RNrZF4x-zDJetS-k0tCDDdeTzLKSBKEfsVXVAfSZsQLlhE4eHobyZHYFPrbeuL33oR0PH3O0Z37tw6KsolQeS-vWhK1DKbu2P0V17RaT555y0IpNS3VR4QVBt-wwAuLulB8inj_9RP4E74J5mxG0_gkuhJRe0QD1QKNbw3k/s320/R.JPG" width="182" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Back to the Future now, 2024, they like to give cuddles instead.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-38814761428985213252024-03-15T01:00:00.001+10:302024-03-15T01:00:00.138+10:30Wednesday's Words on a Friday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXnWoy54mAqxbfz5f2X8YM_egCwm6VWDL-5b3BUFZ2F5ol9dd13sQ-ay1so557BCb0u72vCC-08sob06a_c6Cwy7JHsIkL318z7dj3kFEtziUDPUbb_tkOdGXGUER4B_ssKQ9BrGLatREYHuJVk5qDIekp0O_n5pL99Fgr9tJSaiLGvrUZt5gSV55NRgs/s319/words%205.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="158" data-original-width="319" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXnWoy54mAqxbfz5f2X8YM_egCwm6VWDL-5b3BUFZ2F5ol9dd13sQ-ay1so557BCb0u72vCC-08sob06a_c6Cwy7JHsIkL318z7dj3kFEtziUDPUbb_tkOdGXGUER4B_ssKQ9BrGLatREYHuJVk5qDIekp0O_n5pL99Fgr9tJSaiLGvrUZt5gSV55NRgs/s1600/words%205.png" width="319" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This month the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">ME</span> and can be found right <a href="https://river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com.au">here</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. tinkering 2. vagabond 3. dreamed 4. sometimes 5. running 6. choose 7. Sunday</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Also including <a href="https://krydderuglen.blogspot.com">Charlotte's</a> colour of the month: <span style="color: #93c47d;">Olive Green</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Here is my very short story:</u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Joel! Joel, stop
<u>tinkering</u> and get out from under that truck!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“What is it Grandma?’
said Joel. “It’s <u>Sunday</u> and we are <u>running</u> late. Just look at you in those
rags, you look like a <u>vagabond</u>! You need to get changed for Church.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“We won’t be late if
you let me finish working on the truck, I’m almost done. You don’t want us to
break down on the highway now do you?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“I suppose not,” said Grandma.
“I’ll go and <u>choose</u> my handbag for the day, I think the new <span style="color: #93c47d;">olive green</span> one
will go well with my rose pink suit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“I remember the days I
<u>dreamed</u> of a brand new truck,” thought Joel as he tightened bolts and checked
the oil. “But I wouldn’t have learned this much about repairing them. <u>Sometimes</u>
though, I still wish…”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-50815121489869316762024-03-13T01:00:00.001+10:302024-03-13T01:00:00.149+10:30Words for Wednesday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsa6U3Qw55EENxvzrVcdpgE7k1MxTbLylZAtsKln9OGCCl3su6gsAswV9C5H-4NGtg_Eiib9zlvf-xdLFJ1nETwEk602vJqIdC_suZ47Ygma9UzY8XSVWfrrnRh8BuayHq8j5krHQSdjc3snBoH1M3Uq7mRHwftyV3JpgjsGMQrkf9LtP_Iq_BbXlfgYA/s225/words%208.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsa6U3Qw55EENxvzrVcdpgE7k1MxTbLylZAtsKln9OGCCl3su6gsAswV9C5H-4NGtg_Eiib9zlvf-xdLFJ1nETwEk602vJqIdC_suZ47Ygma9UzY8XSVWfrrnRh8BuayHq8j5krHQSdjc3snBoH1M3Uq7mRHwftyV3JpgjsGMQrkf9LtP_Iq_BbXlfgYA/s1600/words%208.png" width="225" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This month the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">ME</span> and can be found right <a href="https://river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com.au">here</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I have decided to use fewer words this month in hopes t</span><span style="font-family: arial;">hat others might join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">My own story will apear on this blog on Friday 15th.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. tinkering 2. vagabond 3. dreamed 4. sometimes 5. running 6. choose 7. Sunday</span></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-49476671174504510242024-03-10T01:00:00.001+10:302024-03-10T01:00:00.139+10:30Sunday Selections # 679<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nothing rude or vulgar though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. <a href="https://fromthehighrise.blogspot.com.au">Andrew</a> is one. <a href="https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com">Messymimi</a> is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Elephant's Child</span> is still taking a break.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com">Wisewebwoman</a> has also been joining us occasionally.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I have only one calendar this year and I have been forgetting to show you the pictures so let's begin with :</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3DInfxFc8ysIu5YbrYSu-xERs5cp7lV4tD4c-5vYhhrRkFcDpTFyqV8SPoIGefdOfwCUjuuWUYL2up26SU1EoIlGZTPdiw1MKcxPxxaEISgxa47W2Qhg9refu-bcu3vrSEcxhssUHM58vbQ3qTKyesgf1Z_VifxuEm3DktSv1ULuqbTkhmSBDLozEbI0/s5184/A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3DInfxFc8ysIu5YbrYSu-xERs5cp7lV4tD4c-5vYhhrRkFcDpTFyqV8SPoIGefdOfwCUjuuWUYL2up26SU1EoIlGZTPdiw1MKcxPxxaEISgxa47W2Qhg9refu-bcu3vrSEcxhssUHM58vbQ3qTKyesgf1Z_VifxuEm3DktSv1ULuqbTkhmSBDLozEbI0/s320/A.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">January</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9yZ_Q3-6OdiaOpV1THNl4WcuF6i1QfoMFh96kxd4czDcVgme0BOwPMtDDYbXMsG0fMpy5swPye9SLXAaxYQOCJ7QhIPfbB6l7WHrGySLdr2T2a3o2CtF85zWX2lPWUCtr5ORY-qXQS6l5aCRQYYTtnHSNCDvsL0Uxe8QF3Ik0OaeSYhuUPGSbq2D-Bc/s5184/B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9yZ_Q3-6OdiaOpV1THNl4WcuF6i1QfoMFh96kxd4czDcVgme0BOwPMtDDYbXMsG0fMpy5swPye9SLXAaxYQOCJ7QhIPfbB6l7WHrGySLdr2T2a3o2CtF85zWX2lPWUCtr5ORY-qXQS6l5aCRQYYTtnHSNCDvsL0Uxe8QF3Ik0OaeSYhuUPGSbq2D-Bc/s320/B.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">February</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeL1AsUNDTqorUt2zUJvI6mg4DTTOj47t73ws5Xat5wXOIButxbONe06aihFF5rHsre0SXfr4lsuY_jQGhMbv-0sPhqyvbKk4C4XVYYXw7ThkU0m-yvwIWHypbdMhWj5c6qA8iu-2fkhSOmIimUawa4SCbgOF07ax6Exqm-fiwRoEfUf9e1KYx7u66QM4/s5184/C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeL1AsUNDTqorUt2zUJvI6mg4DTTOj47t73ws5Xat5wXOIButxbONe06aihFF5rHsre0SXfr4lsuY_jQGhMbv-0sPhqyvbKk4C4XVYYXw7ThkU0m-yvwIWHypbdMhWj5c6qA8iu-2fkhSOmIimUawa4SCbgOF07ax6Exqm-fiwRoEfUf9e1KYx7u66QM4/s320/C.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">and March</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZW_sb6-ReAIECoySnYOsbJC-rlnGRBOSMiJMPKO3AyV62WHbkQYzcoTrzzNIEdcU7ewFeql83K1getGlGGlXFzckRTxNE5GZbSZicCTmnNlSRCQF3ehF57TlNFIMZf_GaSa-aySbfGgIXx9yBR6u_4YLj9x99oA6VA9WlipL5B3etFRLpNL_iI7QQd3k/s4032/D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZW_sb6-ReAIECoySnYOsbJC-rlnGRBOSMiJMPKO3AyV62WHbkQYzcoTrzzNIEdcU7ewFeql83K1getGlGGlXFzckRTxNE5GZbSZicCTmnNlSRCQF3ehF57TlNFIMZf_GaSa-aySbfGgIXx9yBR6u_4YLj9x99oA6VA9WlipL5B3etFRLpNL_iI7QQd3k/s320/D.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">this is how much a cheeseburger costs in Australia, how much is a cheeseburger where you live? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtirQjdi9OFFWa8tDINDM-ktd0sqfJcrzGya3sFfzy_ioc30_Bx4sfszkZpx7ccWqp4KrARuKHeTLCHE03YgjD94C4c28brYn7z65zsNUaLebZWaUPi9IdQcSK3lneIi4feVVdZPVL5A3tShN_9YsnBQ4afPDxJEh4AzgSfHe2X-3oScKyoQwmF6I-q6Q/s1033/E.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="1033" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtirQjdi9OFFWa8tDINDM-ktd0sqfJcrzGya3sFfzy_ioc30_Bx4sfszkZpx7ccWqp4KrARuKHeTLCHE03YgjD94C4c28brYn7z65zsNUaLebZWaUPi9IdQcSK3lneIi4feVVdZPVL5A3tShN_9YsnBQ4afPDxJEh4AzgSfHe2X-3oScKyoQwmF6I-q6Q/s320/E.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Ant Party at Iris's holiday cabin this summer (she had an infestation twice!) enlarging the picture will help.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj38YATphQi-T6nLx74Vnz-E6z1j4VsPBrHIFedzUSBQEYDOoJVt4Ek2snVivY4WzIx-vzP0Z6ReB75I2SfQ-j_9rlDLCRbDQjFfUh7Tgi0FhT7YxZ2Zc49qPjUKo0zio9HqVq_3_VOvF4njTUrg-wdGAIBcck2JhMqwm3vPXGGbSoIWDXeuXnHY1U1ZEI/s4032/F.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj38YATphQi-T6nLx74Vnz-E6z1j4VsPBrHIFedzUSBQEYDOoJVt4Ek2snVivY4WzIx-vzP0Z6ReB75I2SfQ-j_9rlDLCRbDQjFfUh7Tgi0FhT7YxZ2Zc49qPjUKo0zio9HqVq_3_VOvF4njTUrg-wdGAIBcck2JhMqwm3vPXGGbSoIWDXeuXnHY1U1ZEI/s320/F.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">there have been some pretty skies here lately</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiy7j3-8g1mUh4oH3vnnM2P1JcKpWoSIlN5cepWLY6ubXdA-xAj55Wtje_7lCfcAEcBvRJQ7KnRSTM-_0MZGNw6LuFKFh_jzGw-GX3JajgZg6haCb79rXnguGVpgAzIf6a0DNyOHDF-EzUl5F3-H9s0FUexF15sbeaNAr5qzOHpGcBV99hywsGe4DYRw0/s4032/G.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiy7j3-8g1mUh4oH3vnnM2P1JcKpWoSIlN5cepWLY6ubXdA-xAj55Wtje_7lCfcAEcBvRJQ7KnRSTM-_0MZGNw6LuFKFh_jzGw-GX3JajgZg6haCb79rXnguGVpgAzIf6a0DNyOHDF-EzUl5F3-H9s0FUexF15sbeaNAr5qzOHpGcBV99hywsGe4DYRw0/s320/G.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">these are from last month, this month there is barely a hint of a cloud anywhere, we're in a heatwave 40C days (104F) and 26C nights (78.8F)</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGxgBCNDrBbkr-njMXVpkJsoW9ycFGsoTFljQxCgbzrZDYK3RUdLd2htI1-qunIhcXlt98i191vIYcmfJapww56CS-q2EbBtOxYWN50S291I0pK5IyuIiY_DglxfSEHEiN3O0L5zvr4w07hwMCbTXJH7-lx4lvqQakuXwA4hn_0BAtcQimcUaQNTDJ7b8/s5184/H.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGxgBCNDrBbkr-njMXVpkJsoW9ycFGsoTFljQxCgbzrZDYK3RUdLd2htI1-qunIhcXlt98i191vIYcmfJapww56CS-q2EbBtOxYWN50S291I0pK5IyuIiY_DglxfSEHEiN3O0L5zvr4w07hwMCbTXJH7-lx4lvqQakuXwA4hn_0BAtcQimcUaQNTDJ7b8/s320/H.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">this is what my fridge looks like now, it has a new addition</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgd-53QjDyvDETZ4S1qgETovyHw1LLlnk8Hqcv0LOKcmAndSMz3_pLOGTHWSYnpq7MRmIqdH1FQgdBEZL0f_jbIWaIY3_Dq073JtmZLa67s4xDBJ1mmr2o9CZeE2kO61J2GPUyVzbMR_4vdilnxwKu4_Xxi3rnMCKv9YcKO-9hi4CP5n_CKHH9IubrpPQ/s5184/I.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgd-53QjDyvDETZ4S1qgETovyHw1LLlnk8Hqcv0LOKcmAndSMz3_pLOGTHWSYnpq7MRmIqdH1FQgdBEZL0f_jbIWaIY3_Dq073JtmZLa67s4xDBJ1mmr2o9CZeE2kO61J2GPUyVzbMR_4vdilnxwKu4_Xxi3rnMCKv9YcKO-9hi4CP5n_CKHH9IubrpPQ/s320/I.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">an Egyptian magnet! Thank You Elephant's Child</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimmu7LuHclll8gsvg-7BeJPPPxdtzhcGSEK7IZ4HFt5Wr4-R09cmfkOp_pgK9zTw3nqaEDgK6fAtKEemqXZvrHtywL55n0Bq8qfRoYaq9lEw0J-Q6QFCcmiCsNUoRdlE_aIbOyKpYYrFsW57I135U5dz4MQ3dc-7wLV7FbbCJlxeO-XXI-D7CpFmgL_k0/s5184/J.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimmu7LuHclll8gsvg-7BeJPPPxdtzhcGSEK7IZ4HFt5Wr4-R09cmfkOp_pgK9zTw3nqaEDgK6fAtKEemqXZvrHtywL55n0Bq8qfRoYaq9lEw0J-Q6QFCcmiCsNUoRdlE_aIbOyKpYYrFsW57I135U5dz4MQ3dc-7wLV7FbbCJlxeO-XXI-D7CpFmgL_k0/s320/J.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">right next to a sombrero-wearing skull</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4FZTkk09nqIY7cNwlJzYyT4-Xrrn2m5Fk2kWt5ckGs4tfqgT9KKewc49zKtDrDHeSct8qoNb_pfCJy4gp3GjrsPQBXguVK2Z_U4ADGGgyBEHXS06PjazAFQhQjCan2DvrYESdPgabAi2efx0I-QkS_Fgr4VLwlCFW4rNnd7ZeTwTmkC59QE5DNQVBdpo/s5184/K.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4FZTkk09nqIY7cNwlJzYyT4-Xrrn2m5Fk2kWt5ckGs4tfqgT9KKewc49zKtDrDHeSct8qoNb_pfCJy4gp3GjrsPQBXguVK2Z_U4ADGGgyBEHXS06PjazAFQhQjCan2DvrYESdPgabAi2efx0I-QkS_Fgr4VLwlCFW4rNnd7ZeTwTmkC59QE5DNQVBdpo/s320/K.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">that seemingly empty space near the top right is covered in tiny glow-in-the-dark stars</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXzbaZ2AT3KPv71tKcXQdpyZu74WB17HFzNrTq840t1TZ6bz1UpFIsa3DdFmoXM39rIwpAC3gWqSsaKE_dFbcF8R0xpJEE4K5rBJpBNl3-Wcg2zMuTriTg7LM3BCr1y6KNGVCz5A8QKGy9_CATdFrrT2VezsKnYkngJfqYiFM_k9Yb_m9XntiDe_nqvYQ/s5184/L.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXzbaZ2AT3KPv71tKcXQdpyZu74WB17HFzNrTq840t1TZ6bz1UpFIsa3DdFmoXM39rIwpAC3gWqSsaKE_dFbcF8R0xpJEE4K5rBJpBNl3-Wcg2zMuTriTg7LM3BCr1y6KNGVCz5A8QKGy9_CATdFrrT2VezsKnYkngJfqYiFM_k9Yb_m9XntiDe_nqvYQ/s320/L.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">I found Jordan declaring herself "Queen of the castle, oops, Pirate Ship!"</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm_E-sfdsZ-LuqFAVabFKbxbMt-DhcuIWvtIuikptNDTvDhTCypg3vGF21RSMk_vA0gBwdaSgYFzcaWdNuo9Y_5IZTBPvS2Gdvl3IEBKipj_lKo6P3z8EfdqS1vU08SEZ-v_qaMo9r4sKenNxdUc0HSDyBjl68iSo1QY89PiHfsw62MOWjhe1igiBsH0M/s5184/M.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm_E-sfdsZ-LuqFAVabFKbxbMt-DhcuIWvtIuikptNDTvDhTCypg3vGF21RSMk_vA0gBwdaSgYFzcaWdNuo9Y_5IZTBPvS2Gdvl3IEBKipj_lKo6P3z8EfdqS1vU08SEZ-v_qaMo9r4sKenNxdUc0HSDyBjl68iSo1QY89PiHfsw62MOWjhe1igiBsH0M/s320/M.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">and Riley having a conversation with the skeleton.</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4R3xRNwij3LAuuc8E9aSXDBc3QzkjWHY7hrmuZO-a1P-BK_0u8gW7MZpaN73I-ySWToVXDVVETXYCuwGkV0GkR2b6dYmtnYI7BeBpDmbiyzlK2ERzMzQStEt9gul-WW-2NUnOQnVFhXHkpg8rqnaR9bl6BsLFYBX5nvdDy99TaXBo3eYUs-RK1Vujxw/s1600/N.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4R3xRNwij3LAuuc8E9aSXDBc3QzkjWHY7hrmuZO-a1P-BK_0u8gW7MZpaN73I-ySWToVXDVVETXYCuwGkV0GkR2b6dYmtnYI7BeBpDmbiyzlK2ERzMzQStEt9gul-WW-2NUnOQnVFhXHkpg8rqnaR9bl6BsLFYBX5nvdDy99TaXBo3eYUs-RK1Vujxw/s320/N.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">the girls are having fun practising</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1FxFIV8A_tjh0V90EiwXcWvtgtZNkWKpiJb7szgRaZsQ-KTnlFJFuiUo-CwgB6N5W3FIoqFEQKZ_jV65hQM0UEi9OsQeIJcpAS_wHVAU0bNFFQgXcRyjtPDnmBeP4XzIH5j6yo8_hpYRRy4JbXKJesEwC814JUkykLwtBLQTUlprbVcHzbyxbs1zuTZo/s1600/O.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1FxFIV8A_tjh0V90EiwXcWvtgtZNkWKpiJb7szgRaZsQ-KTnlFJFuiUo-CwgB6N5W3FIoqFEQKZ_jV65hQM0UEi9OsQeIJcpAS_wHVAU0bNFFQgXcRyjtPDnmBeP4XzIH5j6yo8_hpYRRy4JbXKJesEwC814JUkykLwtBLQTUlprbVcHzbyxbs1zuTZo/s320/O.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">being cute little Easter Bunnies</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgGHW8K5z2CZA1i6JXT22xlEqBTrfy3I_hfu4L0IFoQCPYnQ4CPEek9DZxv-hNowlb1Ld0m1GyiI_biI6pGFpy-iKp8FKWhH92oOpwdB62YX6hoFXlRYE1xON8JAp8FgaXVx6ns96JhMWi1DqB9eyB0uFjRi4oiFehNijIFrDZJOQlAszk6zhWjCfzwY/s320/T.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Gen took a ride on her train.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-75723384181951970122024-03-08T01:00:00.001+10:302024-03-08T01:00:00.150+10:30Wednesday's Words on a Friday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyojELYJKAzUkYcALs9-pFGCu9ImDxDaKMv6i3KcCvZA7brGvCXHZS8KpFzZ83f2LmtSEeZxFif1WMIum8k0zh_nLPjcaRh_ZVgw9xtK49jUOvdBs1CkBSlp8naoqAmuWIrTo3EM6KLnYuRqS1MTOzwvw-b7SCwz8CqMyQGVJFenx5poeUNfd9auliiAc/s300/words%204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyojELYJKAzUkYcALs9-pFGCu9ImDxDaKMv6i3KcCvZA7brGvCXHZS8KpFzZ83f2LmtSEeZxFif1WMIum8k0zh_nLPjcaRh_ZVgw9xtK49jUOvdBs1CkBSlp8naoqAmuWIrTo3EM6KLnYuRqS1MTOzwvw-b7SCwz8CqMyQGVJFenx5poeUNfd9auliiAc/s1600/words%204.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This month the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">ME</span> (river) and can be found right <a href="https://river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com.au">here</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. poised 2. reef 3. crashing 4. bridge 5. wrecked 6.turquoise 7. glitter</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>My story this week is a new chapter in an old long-running story: some of you might remember Tom and Shark Cove?</u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tom stood <u>poised</u> near
the edge of the cliff, camera in hand, gazing down at the beach area. From this
height, even with the tide in, he could clearly see the ring of jagged rocks
that gave the small town its name, Shark Cove. He focused his camera and
snapped a few shots using old fashioned black and white film. He made sure to
get the <u>bridge</u> in at least one shot and the waves <u>crashing</u> against the outer <u>reef</u> in a
couple more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He thought about the
ship that had been <u>wrecked</u> there so long ago that most people didn’t even
remember its name. Much of the wreckage lay on the ocean side of the reef, but
Ed and Sara Saunders had told him there had once been a crew using the wreckage
inside the reef to teach snorkeling and tank diving a few summers ago. Tom
thought he might like to try that for himself. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The sun came out from
behind the clouds and laid a <u>glitter</u> carpet on the wind ruffled <u>turquoise</u> waters inside the
reef and Tom reached for the new digital camera to get a colour shot or two
before the clouds closed in again. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was late autumn now
and after the revelations of that night he and Stephanie Hammer shared long lost
memories, Detective Inspector Stanley Grace and his partner Detective Fargo,
had returned to the city to gather all the old files pertaining to this cold
case from the past, and to arrange a place to stay for Bernice Garrett when, or if,
they could convince her to come to the city and tell as much as she knew about
the night four year old Tom was kidnapped after his Mother, Cherie, had been
killed. Bernice's mind was quite scattered after many years living alone on her mountain, but any information that might be gleaned could prove useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tom and Stephanie would
be required to stay in the city for a time too and almost everyone involved was
wondering if any light at all could be shed on the disappearance of Tom’s
father, Frank Kendall. Tom himself could remember no more than a loving man who smiled a lot. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-16248812673440668812024-03-06T01:00:00.001+10:302024-03-06T01:00:00.141+10:30Words for Wednesday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBbsVEW4JIfyxWw3ewG6DO3XlO_KComtvq6xmyQDNz5jx_NO9xafUm6oGjjhP8hWjBRnlyQTspun00k-gERslQAwfUx_fSq3naBcxLHVzWY0X5RtUlcULO2iKBmCUHqRRcJhHlzmtLHHIKIF-xMg7NDh7MdifaM9zUVaNM4LD9ZLGdMZS8vYw_IuC6_c/s320/Words%2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="320" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBbsVEW4JIfyxWw3ewG6DO3XlO_KComtvq6xmyQDNz5jx_NO9xafUm6oGjjhP8hWjBRnlyQTspun00k-gERslQAwfUx_fSq3naBcxLHVzWY0X5RtUlcULO2iKBmCUHqRRcJhHlzmtLHHIKIF-xMg7NDh7MdifaM9zUVaNM4LD9ZLGdMZS8vYw_IuC6_c/s1600/Words%2010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This month, <span style="color: #cc0000;">March</span>, the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">ME</span> and can be found right <a href="https://river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com.au">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">i have decided to use fewer words this month in the hope that more people might be tempted to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. poised 2. reef 3. crashing 4. bridge 5. wrecked 6. turquoise 7. glitter</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">My own story will appear on this blog on Friday, as always.</span></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-44378804158151513982024-03-03T01:00:00.001+10:302024-03-03T01:00:00.269+10:30Sunday Selections #678<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nothing rude or vulgar though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme is now continued by <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com.au">Elephant's Child</a> and I join in as do a few others. <a href="https://fromthehighrise.blogspot.com.au">Andrew</a> is one. <a href="https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com">Messymimi</a> is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com">Wisewebwoman</a> has also been joining us occasionally.</span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;">Elephant's Child may still be taking a break.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Beginning with the lamp I bought to replace the butterfly one:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-FNKrqI4A9d-fWE0yTRh16sfJEZa-OJbu37-dsQYENkXRaW6QavaRP0k0T0BXoEsVXJp2bd4WrLBDesJAQ7yrGG1D2rF2sSoUm53PE5QLFAO9XpALD3b6788iedKUhyeXWwDeBltuU0lpN6dVWTT0Ca8QNuqVIPCBNo1l4Ey93qzfgSHdRlk09HkePU/s4032/A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-FNKrqI4A9d-fWE0yTRh16sfJEZa-OJbu37-dsQYENkXRaW6QavaRP0k0T0BXoEsVXJp2bd4WrLBDesJAQ7yrGG1D2rF2sSoUm53PE5QLFAO9XpALD3b6788iedKUhyeXWwDeBltuU0lpN6dVWTT0Ca8QNuqVIPCBNo1l4Ey93qzfgSHdRlk09HkePU/s320/A.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">it arrived in a large cardboard box, a bit heavier than I was expecting, oof!</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdfckvjpNsBW4ot7ZKcaQ0E47B5FiXGpJ1g4AF287o9KrmLhuPWYobhyphenhyphenNF3bnIJfO1ObZsh0TLi7sQ04fuFUSCP_PGEUcMylnExZO0J53uTe52KWllJCnZ-Rz1H9Z0zs2uWlpuMOnGvd8pt-mySumG35QZhOgTkxkozzGKxpBdAee6ETYGGJ2eOn1G1zk/s4032/B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdfckvjpNsBW4ot7ZKcaQ0E47B5FiXGpJ1g4AF287o9KrmLhuPWYobhyphenhyphenNF3bnIJfO1ObZsh0TLi7sQ04fuFUSCP_PGEUcMylnExZO0J53uTe52KWllJCnZ-Rz1H9Z0zs2uWlpuMOnGvd8pt-mySumG35QZhOgTkxkozzGKxpBdAee6ETYGGJ2eOn1G1zk/s320/B.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">I was clever enough to order the globes at the same time</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqI09oOXgFJASp71XU00EC8CXwgJxAR9PzOiRLktQz6vCFTEDQV2XfFNqH9ARa79oOOBZyukWlEHa8mWZJBIHttZZanSO1XpGpHMRMHIf8phb9U6ES_7ZbXksuY4eUY4QawrYVj1M-odkMR6gnrVpu21Q64IH87Zn_i7LsQsCjivOc7grhZ8i_LKauCsA/s4032/C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqI09oOXgFJASp71XU00EC8CXwgJxAR9PzOiRLktQz6vCFTEDQV2XfFNqH9ARa79oOOBZyukWlEHa8mWZJBIHttZZanSO1XpGpHMRMHIf8phb9U6ES_7ZbXksuY4eUY4QawrYVj1M-odkMR6gnrVpu21Q64IH87Zn_i7LsQsCjivOc7grhZ8i_LKauCsA/s320/C.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">it only took a few minutes to put together. I will still be searching for a new, bigger, base for the butterfly shade though. </span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp56gBFgUJFxNmkbPQvEAbzPdRDvS2riQQEvOtBolfSqaOgzIf4qMdcWKEpkbhNPDRDdVjdhZkejpEb2yVXU0cEczXwqXwXeTF6RdFkSwdNOaJaR-MrwQbqAcaYDExC_s9KoCgfu4mE3rhVr-wBPbnhCE2nsKhDbO0Lr0qclogcYsbc_EdKBYwnAK8NFo/s5184/D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp56gBFgUJFxNmkbPQvEAbzPdRDvS2riQQEvOtBolfSqaOgzIf4qMdcWKEpkbhNPDRDdVjdhZkejpEb2yVXU0cEczXwqXwXeTF6RdFkSwdNOaJaR-MrwQbqAcaYDExC_s9KoCgfu4mE3rhVr-wBPbnhCE2nsKhDbO0Lr0qclogcYsbc_EdKBYwnAK8NFo/s320/D.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">this is the label inside one of my t-shirts, "Not dishwasher safe, for external use only, contents may be hot" In our summers, the contents definitely get hot!</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTBJx4g-i20LP9IpTLMm5mXXiVHURNCJK8XbubFyeFkTISBIfn-ykssDuBZTkAvFg04bqVH8KxNaUbB1CYJVtGsksOazvZLyYLVEEuUtqzTXQKK3oiMoc4uuYb4U1kxHXvzQzLii58jXIU3Dq_YOC6NIYjJrx-3Mgcr9Z4Lu6o3o9BVKg788LXGdMWY8g/s4032/E.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTBJx4g-i20LP9IpTLMm5mXXiVHURNCJK8XbubFyeFkTISBIfn-ykssDuBZTkAvFg04bqVH8KxNaUbB1CYJVtGsksOazvZLyYLVEEuUtqzTXQKK3oiMoc4uuYb4U1kxHXvzQzLii58jXIU3Dq_YOC6NIYjJrx-3Mgcr9Z4Lu6o3o9BVKg788LXGdMWY8g/s320/E.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">I saw this very nice doorway on a restaurant in Gouger Street, possibly Mongolian?</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqzMbMy9C9JKsLGWhRRtNfHlpEu93KAp71lUWhJeisdP7HmwI-aJX-yrX7cYW7dJVTfZJoRLF6lbdUO-zejoG1Pkdx9tasMoYdqTCzychVLukcKsrOr1G0uRm6NBHgDxHgghYSFnCmExBZtZmj1_Dxp61sLAjokQOEY1xKyFxmijCIO18_Xh3qZORQdOE/s4032/F.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqzMbMy9C9JKsLGWhRRtNfHlpEu93KAp71lUWhJeisdP7HmwI-aJX-yrX7cYW7dJVTfZJoRLF6lbdUO-zejoG1Pkdx9tasMoYdqTCzychVLukcKsrOr1G0uRm6NBHgDxHgghYSFnCmExBZtZmj1_Dxp61sLAjokQOEY1xKyFxmijCIO18_Xh3qZORQdOE/s320/F.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Another restaurant: "Spaghetti Island"</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WZKhUPigLsmTpPQ4nG3saQAek2hDJ6FMdG2R9KNUdnuZBCCRhH6OabW97Z7Y3m_0yD8dJbVGYpRvFbBUYPpOAuqv6dBfFRuk2xRFCBcYqMojcRyfTsd3bFElSiVbl4SlhGOkV9beRQ3Zt4TRDoBxRUChPaBZBWEq_6NrDGfFSYsFTy47mKGjwESCUG8/s4032/G.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WZKhUPigLsmTpPQ4nG3saQAek2hDJ6FMdG2R9KNUdnuZBCCRhH6OabW97Z7Y3m_0yD8dJbVGYpRvFbBUYPpOAuqv6dBfFRuk2xRFCBcYqMojcRyfTsd3bFElSiVbl4SlhGOkV9beRQ3Zt4TRDoBxRUChPaBZBWEq_6NrDGfFSYsFTy47mKGjwESCUG8/s320/G.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">this on the side wall of a restaurant called:</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELrOZhZAkhgonPNiJB5nM5-vSxsmd0hiOzxmfGshZd3xOaF12-mQeME1ArEf4a8bzjDAqx12MMEoWt-tRuE_9cfh9dxsWgzDHzxvB1jj6_drY7IH1992XFVwpecXXP9s4Ov2HfByayhwCsmeaOFVZdvok1UIu_UAX9b11RmxihGwH6k3SKt3OIZ4Irt8/s4032/IMG_1758.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELrOZhZAkhgonPNiJB5nM5-vSxsmd0hiOzxmfGshZd3xOaF12-mQeME1ArEf4a8bzjDAqx12MMEoWt-tRuE_9cfh9dxsWgzDHzxvB1jj6_drY7IH1992XFVwpecXXP9s4Ov2HfByayhwCsmeaOFVZdvok1UIu_UAX9b11RmxihGwH6k3SKt3OIZ4Irt8/s320/IMG_1758.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial;">"The Hot Pot Guy"</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwUtkEiuZBD4iCd3BAH3gc_9bBkfPP7Jk7LqB9MySyvZFBiiLTo2azofODi19Nvg9MVC9daN8EwLxFyN4XwACcGNJkVlyqojDAMN-mhQxkvS-_coD3BEEdDJNP6hmNEXjL5hJpUgvPAZNzD_lNitwxok7uZOF2YgvyzT48PzeeXxxlZHHT0t-vcZ7IkCQ/s4032/H.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwUtkEiuZBD4iCd3BAH3gc_9bBkfPP7Jk7LqB9MySyvZFBiiLTo2azofODi19Nvg9MVC9daN8EwLxFyN4XwACcGNJkVlyqojDAMN-mhQxkvS-_coD3BEEdDJNP6hmNEXjL5hJpUgvPAZNzD_lNitwxok7uZOF2YgvyzT48PzeeXxxlZHHT0t-vcZ7IkCQ/s320/H.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">here is one very tiny section of our enormous West Terrace Cemetery</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZrZkqBVOCvFIMv85_m0I-wG8bhNjykK-Ro1FrMviblXD-khpg-6VVydLAEWxel8mqZdrGdACrRaXmMmFAGCYx_tE5nToTPKXbzf-5i1_Zkzly5Rsvcxz5CoIwqPZE-uGR9ItowDCW8crpGri6916743FG815-2urSbIyQi5vQY7p-w3tU2FzDyD2D3g/s4080/I.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZrZkqBVOCvFIMv85_m0I-wG8bhNjykK-Ro1FrMviblXD-khpg-6VVydLAEWxel8mqZdrGdACrRaXmMmFAGCYx_tE5nToTPKXbzf-5i1_Zkzly5Rsvcxz5CoIwqPZE-uGR9ItowDCW8crpGri6916743FG815-2urSbIyQi5vQY7p-w3tU2FzDyD2D3g/s320/I.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">one of the twins climbing the ladder</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_hfkpzqfJeDlHlTOIEJevOInYAUVzsfAcN-o57LVqRjlz-lO6YXgPAJjgqGmL-0x_Zvr6wZfmMfVffiG0r0T-hinYOHdfs4ZH3-uykLne7U-tQiE3LaNumXtsKnqAGlxGTT6brWB1AzS4X_AwqDgSFrAHjlC2kqHer6kQI7SMe4yfV-lVYmYAKaoAHUQ/s4080/J.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_hfkpzqfJeDlHlTOIEJevOInYAUVzsfAcN-o57LVqRjlz-lO6YXgPAJjgqGmL-0x_Zvr6wZfmMfVffiG0r0T-hinYOHdfs4ZH3-uykLne7U-tQiE3LaNumXtsKnqAGlxGTT6brWB1AzS4X_AwqDgSFrAHjlC2kqHer6kQI7SMe4yfV-lVYmYAKaoAHUQ/s320/J.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">and stepping up to get on the slide</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVD0Rt19C7QBwEYGk6rsgsGYQUZT664HrtoJ_RYNBBVeYBzeaxPfDXSMjj7-0Q6S5_N8nYJqxFrvJdQB3HuiRG9zt-9YfQw_1Zu-ikmvBNYl1WVf9PGA6ts4ZELTS-_veE6Dy3eO62s5jHcR8NW-x8221wkzyPos04hN08VD_W1Kx6nqb4DLbEdHcrt6c/s4080/K.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVD0Rt19C7QBwEYGk6rsgsGYQUZT664HrtoJ_RYNBBVeYBzeaxPfDXSMjj7-0Q6S5_N8nYJqxFrvJdQB3HuiRG9zt-9YfQw_1Zu-ikmvBNYl1WVf9PGA6ts4ZELTS-_veE6Dy3eO62s5jHcR8NW-x8221wkzyPos04hN08VD_W1Kx6nqb4DLbEdHcrt6c/s320/K.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">and the other twin doing the same</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNVLPW2Rm0II5gzAsG9C6ZmfIsFc5TZKslzkBqOuZF9SHpoS1L7GceYFi8zAOZdkyvT1zKC7oa2Tzh1M7ct2yeI05k0a5JdAqWzxYBBwj9l8XhxykO26jZc10PCJhOmJXyif_Y7i-y7V6OeAP2-1-z25tsqWyVZnp_fAePvng8EAdxxHEdMP0Pt-tNR-s/s4080/L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNVLPW2Rm0II5gzAsG9C6ZmfIsFc5TZKslzkBqOuZF9SHpoS1L7GceYFi8zAOZdkyvT1zKC7oa2Tzh1M7ct2yeI05k0a5JdAqWzxYBBwj9l8XhxykO26jZc10PCJhOmJXyif_Y7i-y7V6OeAP2-1-z25tsqWyVZnp_fAePvng8EAdxxHEdMP0Pt-tNR-s/s320/L.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">which is which? I have no idea</span> 😍</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyBJJNyyo8PzhB5ddrT-8TIfTb5-FOg9xBeydiqB9bwq63uBe1Pjs06w9xyhZIgdKEYvSISyX4aYpCTLEqV7vppzdNRfU70NSy0rxqobyeOnsKYdTOLKSCfnsQqGZqAKuS-YEv36paBvxNBaTCNqUIBwYUaApMGKojVSASxJFxXLr9Vzd3rBRZy6u_0Nc/s5184/IMG_6150.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyBJJNyyo8PzhB5ddrT-8TIfTb5-FOg9xBeydiqB9bwq63uBe1Pjs06w9xyhZIgdKEYvSISyX4aYpCTLEqV7vppzdNRfU70NSy0rxqobyeOnsKYdTOLKSCfnsQqGZqAKuS-YEv36paBvxNBaTCNqUIBwYUaApMGKojVSASxJFxXLr9Vzd3rBRZy6u_0Nc/s320/IMG_6150.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">the calico bag of gifts given to me by Iris:</span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil4HJVG90TX7zXJzkAGKOMdZjuRO55XvYH3pIZAxB_Xpvgf5GvGZcuDj8aCI_au4AiQ0YhZAtXLieX5A9UEcTYJBYLy2RdjNv3QVjHC3A9XzMBxjzsaJ9qviWY179H0I4xlNoE03JIIa9mJYarUeGIoHLxTNG68S97tYAlnDpGaO1HJawK9-bJUmu6wLo/s5184/IMG_6151.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil4HJVG90TX7zXJzkAGKOMdZjuRO55XvYH3pIZAxB_Xpvgf5GvGZcuDj8aCI_au4AiQ0YhZAtXLieX5A9UEcTYJBYLy2RdjNv3QVjHC3A9XzMBxjzsaJ9qviWY179H0I4xlNoE03JIIa9mJYarUeGIoHLxTNG68S97tYAlnDpGaO1HJawK9-bJUmu6wLo/s320/IMG_6151.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">her home town is Braunschweig, which in English, is Brunswick.</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7WqG7jjZC6Hd0h6AB59IwjpPflgSAsfXxn4Xjz3jUyz8kcr8HCs1_9-UZKzf_HhjnAx_nj1uqvFMnIPUysx5sTF4FlNWVq3IqovwDfq9O2Ygi8GcTYpgRXALNi_aKfpxKS2tEjlWy9fNF6r8DY_kBBhl9Xz_BUxCHMZ44EIyQTZtL63CSLKNuXwm1sM/s5184/IMG_6146.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7WqG7jjZC6Hd0h6AB59IwjpPflgSAsfXxn4Xjz3jUyz8kcr8HCs1_9-UZKzf_HhjnAx_nj1uqvFMnIPUysx5sTF4FlNWVq3IqovwDfq9O2Ygi8GcTYpgRXALNi_aKfpxKS2tEjlWy9fNF6r8DY_kBBhl9Xz_BUxCHMZ44EIyQTZtL63CSLKNuXwm1sM/s320/IMG_6146.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">inside, a pair of wooden utensils, ready to serve with a wink and a smile</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdPbzJD0vh05f8dB7raXvFKtvUZFO25G_KWLPxiBE9kI6LwMO0ocFM8SrdsqXuHIEOHDAnKbvzLJ7X6DscdJ4JenlxaTNduc_JOYn2vGX-XC9X-pjY_D0Jrr0ziKncklgZArSNtaWM6zyzq4uQfMsdS4hDFtNLE56gx2iPcTi8zg12ONPbPG2_7w-vJ3E/s5184/IMG_6148.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdPbzJD0vh05f8dB7raXvFKtvUZFO25G_KWLPxiBE9kI6LwMO0ocFM8SrdsqXuHIEOHDAnKbvzLJ7X6DscdJ4JenlxaTNduc_JOYn2vGX-XC9X-pjY_D0Jrr0ziKncklgZArSNtaWM6zyzq4uQfMsdS4hDFtNLE56gx2iPcTi8zg12ONPbPG2_7w-vJ3E/s320/IMG_6148.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">a keychain with the city name, a rampant lion and a view of the city</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagoIEDvv_ctDPG1pet8ENeG2rS1swH0qKn1Ddd3UDPsPWAvw4KnPvOGsY-CHuim54QVGhMgq04YDh_ugpn1qCmR-qm5Nhcw7GBBMZE4PZNvqqKDd79AU2rHIKxyKL-qw9iMWpO8mNSjtNSJVWBckS2SeqeusQKa2uqZL_04Lmp48MEQYNlbF-98Thyphenhyphents/s5184/IMG_6149.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagoIEDvv_ctDPG1pet8ENeG2rS1swH0qKn1Ddd3UDPsPWAvw4KnPvOGsY-CHuim54QVGhMgq04YDh_ugpn1qCmR-qm5Nhcw7GBBMZE4PZNvqqKDd79AU2rHIKxyKL-qw9iMWpO8mNSjtNSJVWBckS2SeqeusQKa2uqZL_04Lmp48MEQYNlbF-98Thyphenhyphents/s320/IMG_6149.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">another keychain with "Henry" who is the city's mascot, there are statues and images of Henry all over Braunschweig. There was also a fruit bar in the bag which I ate immediately.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKCvl9G0UI_sTM0F7rB49oRn1IAC_XL3Spyv5x4-ZT2pihdlRjhve8oliiHGg6Qd0_KWp-PwFskJcatoyMZ4D2mAzdrAeoTf2M-IpoKOppXhr69aQU59Slq2kS9TbzIyXAqKBOeotbWJe3ohz4j0vV_DTmfviyIs13Qlv3HkUoHJcfXxEnv6O9vBt_ngQ/s5184/IMG_6152.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKCvl9G0UI_sTM0F7rB49oRn1IAC_XL3Spyv5x4-ZT2pihdlRjhve8oliiHGg6Qd0_KWp-PwFskJcatoyMZ4D2mAzdrAeoTf2M-IpoKOppXhr69aQU59Slq2kS9TbzIyXAqKBOeotbWJe3ohz4j0vV_DTmfviyIs13Qlv3HkUoHJcfXxEnv6O9vBt_ngQ/s320/IMG_6152.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">finally, for <a href="https://mikenet707.blogspot.com">Mike</a>, my purple "cheese" t-shirt.<br /></span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /></div></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-14699122866825227252024-03-01T01:00:00.001+10:302024-03-01T01:00:00.135+10:30Wednesday's Words on a Friday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFW411CO2_mhlsOOqueN88hxuhVIdEb_nhHUsIbhGUz5SDG4aNNA9qNxZ1xpN1_1VC8pDDogG4ippsHwILU_DAnu6bFZc_Xiw9_W0b_z9yEvpAEmDrbpPbY5oBGBXgR28za1BNFoJ5vBH1QsiLYm8Ri65VHPOpwyb1Z-cK-SovOpNS2bVA7HVvyn0Qgw/s320/words2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="320" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFW411CO2_mhlsOOqueN88hxuhVIdEb_nhHUsIbhGUz5SDG4aNNA9qNxZ1xpN1_1VC8pDDogG4ippsHwILU_DAnu6bFZc_Xiw9_W0b_z9yEvpAEmDrbpPbY5oBGBXgR28za1BNFoJ5vBH1QsiLYm8Ri65VHPOpwyb1Z-cK-SovOpNS2bVA7HVvyn0Qgw/s1600/words2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This month the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">Lissa</span> and can be found <a href="https://postcardsfromthebookstore.blogspot.com">here</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. tomorrow 2. coffee 3. direction 4. echo 5. sunshine</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Here is my story:</u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>God's Observation Deck #11</u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">God leaned on the gleaming
gold railing of his observation deck and watched the scene below. Mary was
preparing the welcome area while Peter was putting a final shine on the Pearly Gates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tomorrow and tomorrow
and tomorrow…there had been so many of them, but today was Wayne Solomon’s
final <u>tomorrow</u>. His chest barely moved as his final breaths came more and more
shallow and less frequent. Dr Patterson noted the final breath and listened
carefully through his stethoscope for any sign of a heartbeat. There was none.
Not even the faint <u>echo</u> he had heard earlier this morning. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He noted the time of
death on his chart as Nurse Walker drew the sheet up over Wayne’s face. It had
been a quiet, peaceful death for this very old man, she thought. The very last
of his family, with no living kin anywhere in the world, there would be no one
to arrange a funeral. The hospital would arrange a cremation instead. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Not too long after,
Mary was welcoming Wayne’s soul through the Pearly Gates. “We’re very glad to
see you finally,” she said to Wayne as he looked about with pleasure. “You are
the only one of your family that made it here.” “I know,” said Wayne. “They
were a bad lot, alcoholics and criminals, always fighting and escaping from
jails. I was pretty sure they’d be headed in the other <u>direction</u>. It’s why I
never married and had children. I thought the world would be better off without
this particular set of genes in the pool.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Peter closed the gates
as they walked towards the area Mary had prepared. A large vegetable garden
very much like the one Wayne had tended on Earth, with a seating area that
would always be in <u>sunshine</u>. She helped him fit his wings and then led him
towards the kitchen where the best <u>coffee</u> available was waiting for him. She
placed cups and plates of cakes on a small wheeled trolley and led Wayne out
onto God’s deck. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Wow!” said Wayne. “This
is amazing!” God walked towards him and shook hands. “Welcome Wayne,” God said.
“I’m not sure if you ever miss any of your family, but there is a window I can
show you where you can look down into Lucifer’s territory and see them if you
ever want to.” “That would be nice,”
said Wayne. “I’d like to see my mum now and again, she did try quite hard later
in life to stay on the straight path. Just never quite managed it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-31631442814332118352024-02-25T01:00:00.001+10:302024-02-25T01:00:00.242+10:30Sunday Selections # 677<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nothing rude or vulgar though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. <a href="https://fromthehighrise.blogspot.com.au">Andrew</a> is one. <a href="https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com">Messymimi</a> is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Elephant's Child</span> is taking a break this month.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com">Wisewebwoman </a>has also been joining us occasionally.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIecF61tzCsQRCHYkR5SxkeR5BTTso2UL_ZplpWjEPsGjsifIJ3uVLfs9cgYtwBROK_YK7HJSB9Pl0pMKUbiL7Nt3xEiD3Ok95_6sayTMYw-cBMV_gBH_QzualdeTnOGjm2rlnI9bSdbfV5RhxPrKbiVvyYqgh_AVcx0N4JntkPOXith3bksC3K-RzYw/s5184/A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIecF61tzCsQRCHYkR5SxkeR5BTTso2UL_ZplpWjEPsGjsifIJ3uVLfs9cgYtwBROK_YK7HJSB9Pl0pMKUbiL7Nt3xEiD3Ok95_6sayTMYw-cBMV_gBH_QzualdeTnOGjm2rlnI9bSdbfV5RhxPrKbiVvyYqgh_AVcx0N4JntkPOXith3bksC3K-RzYw/s320/A.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">in case anyone is interested, these are our Australian coins, left to right top to bottom, Fifty cents, twenty cents, ten cents, five cents two dollars, one dollar. We began in 1966 with one and two dollar notes, but switched to coins later.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjetw-C7_9lmKVMnOwqSdilMTIhaXfsdfAYGTBfmwmdpsVFpx-KxmXw-9LaOpPetxkdeS_p3Jtc9VJf85O8HIRRx5fsYIt_COMGMo2utMqKmUrDZSGzvluvojz1TwYzcBqkyU_Yx8PMRkIa49VoL3-8FCO0KCZuGYnsPmdD_4uWyQ2OawXAGIcNAdPb3e4/s5184/B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjetw-C7_9lmKVMnOwqSdilMTIhaXfsdfAYGTBfmwmdpsVFpx-KxmXw-9LaOpPetxkdeS_p3Jtc9VJf85O8HIRRx5fsYIt_COMGMo2utMqKmUrDZSGzvluvojz1TwYzcBqkyU_Yx8PMRkIa49VoL3-8FCO0KCZuGYnsPmdD_4uWyQ2OawXAGIcNAdPb3e4/s320/B.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this memorial coin, a twenty cent coin, was released after Queen Elizabeth had died, The smaller image stamped onto it with the wheat sheaf design, is from our original pre-decimal threepence piece and celebrates the length of time The Queen reigned. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Y4PEv5XwBv9T324OeDcht74UUO6wxc86t2OaJe7ZPSWV_2hYg5Uodsax-kxAfCqXQIB14GIq-yyh4jpXb_CMGbYejJ-2s4xbV5tzDB8dnEa0l0o0HGpjd7u1PJ45foLI9455e-RbX3vNnFoFTX4w1LcWgsGTooxlz6MAwOVLpVxt_fgUHvUKGR41u9c/s5184/C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Y4PEv5XwBv9T324OeDcht74UUO6wxc86t2OaJe7ZPSWV_2hYg5Uodsax-kxAfCqXQIB14GIq-yyh4jpXb_CMGbYejJ-2s4xbV5tzDB8dnEa0l0o0HGpjd7u1PJ45foLI9455e-RbX3vNnFoFTX4w1LcWgsGTooxlz6MAwOVLpVxt_fgUHvUKGR41u9c/s320/C.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the gnomes are finally finished, here they are on the newspaper still drying</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVUu4p6maquYN7j25lRLzX0EB1ntAESMCClgnOuAFHt-PjPpa27Mi6dSU2gF1KoUAp4Je2D0pvdYyRytT6nQ_ffxT-PzjDxcTZdZuew_rjg90dVogf7tPJnCZoTkwFL-XYKeJqUnnVubRGo5arIhCv-Ig0wwBhLx9Q0XgMeOEMy7U3_g9vXC_ql8ADCCg/s5184/D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVUu4p6maquYN7j25lRLzX0EB1ntAESMCClgnOuAFHt-PjPpa27Mi6dSU2gF1KoUAp4Je2D0pvdYyRytT6nQ_ffxT-PzjDxcTZdZuew_rjg90dVogf7tPJnCZoTkwFL-XYKeJqUnnVubRGo5arIhCv-Ig0wwBhLx9Q0XgMeOEMy7U3_g9vXC_ql8ADCCg/s320/D.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and here they are without all the painting paraphernalia. Now I need to decide where to put them.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNgVLPOJqmRH9aAVENo72i_cTzvs6KNktTN8SBnOjxWPs9jiYZnF827B7CxClbFyYMCaCLHjID63K3CT_rc60XN5TWC5Z8EM5tOYjjmuPxMMCI0soNU7F1TfCpBNrAyMLQruUP_SzI0rTCY9_xC-U35rintUZFEOJmTZLJwknHXGHTzpYzjAo-QU4c6I/s1599/E.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1599" data-original-width="1173" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNgVLPOJqmRH9aAVENo72i_cTzvs6KNktTN8SBnOjxWPs9jiYZnF827B7CxClbFyYMCaCLHjID63K3CT_rc60XN5TWC5Z8EM5tOYjjmuPxMMCI0soNU7F1TfCpBNrAyMLQruUP_SzI0rTCY9_xC-U35rintUZFEOJmTZLJwknHXGHTzpYzjAo-QU4c6I/s320/E.JPG" width="235" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this is Genevieve studying the new matchbox cars no-one gave them</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGMchQennArICh3obZYSc2BmcvmEojN0VeRWpaTfHS5F7Z73C5Qsh96N-u__uNyZUs_ARwkXH4VT64FxS7Pity_xGG-Rde_9GSc22kMaGi9dCzUKCbcLx0IfdYJ0-eendfHX82008U-eEXPwsJ5mzW7V8Wd4i40jCcc1TVB3D3c2fX8PLUYonSo3ebrU/s1600/F.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGMchQennArICh3obZYSc2BmcvmEojN0VeRWpaTfHS5F7Z73C5Qsh96N-u__uNyZUs_ARwkXH4VT64FxS7Pity_xGG-Rde_9GSc22kMaGi9dCzUKCbcLx0IfdYJ0-eendfHX82008U-eEXPwsJ5mzW7V8Wd4i40jCcc1TVB3D3c2fX8PLUYonSo3ebrU/s320/F.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and Anastasia doing the same, both girls love cars</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_7ZM4IoHPx2TEY1Gcri5-uEOooShAg0kjIF7PcYiYqXINzhelDkD6bsgozJYziBwV6vk6_wcJiWuPTrwv6K3RtsdaalVx5ElhzFM6ltfGXAsFY7vNeklOstg1FdEQ8ehRJTidBl6TMxrqtIcnlTjqIEhOu4rchzXWtpdTpQUDnDaSa81075I8XxEpac/s1080/G.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_7ZM4IoHPx2TEY1Gcri5-uEOooShAg0kjIF7PcYiYqXINzhelDkD6bsgozJYziBwV6vk6_wcJiWuPTrwv6K3RtsdaalVx5ElhzFM6ltfGXAsFY7vNeklOstg1FdEQ8ehRJTidBl6TMxrqtIcnlTjqIEhOu4rchzXWtpdTpQUDnDaSa81075I8XxEpac/s320/G.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">in Adelaide's Botanic Gardens, these seats are where we usually all meet whenever we are getting together for a picnic</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFeQuaTRlV9jmCK09t0ldDmwOsP9OpOzjp1y5omHOCTQiGqRGN-L9GiOqC-MpWzw4d7HLdpLTHhajvjIMXGvZ-39sNqGAuNslOT0_Hnrg3bLcQyNPGFn6hVp_H0RefHFkNVAlueGqCyGiA6Kov2KUeU9dKmko4exSG9OZc5CVWHxgm-7Nql6r10GT-igc/s1080/H.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFeQuaTRlV9jmCK09t0ldDmwOsP9OpOzjp1y5omHOCTQiGqRGN-L9GiOqC-MpWzw4d7HLdpLTHhajvjIMXGvZ-39sNqGAuNslOT0_Hnrg3bLcQyNPGFn6hVp_H0RefHFkNVAlueGqCyGiA6Kov2KUeU9dKmko4exSG9OZc5CVWHxgm-7Nql6r10GT-igc/s320/H.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I love the knobbly look of this tree trunk (gardens photos taken by "no-one")</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO57_oZad3DGi5iV-_uQiRJMKlAPcsx799JU3gv7lzG6qNSN3yYUVU8S26qqH-tDlE5MIxRJ6jKJYA1UCK0op1QlP0Z7dec0vRqH3qxPZgwG3oNe5rhVJ8LtvWCtdY9kbBKgwP3a4SGOwPUiLon7lJoEbh37SsY-k_6SvFSdUIeQZ1wAuhUpfcj_JA8HE/s1080/I.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO57_oZad3DGi5iV-_uQiRJMKlAPcsx799JU3gv7lzG6qNSN3yYUVU8S26qqH-tDlE5MIxRJ6jKJYA1UCK0op1QlP0Z7dec0vRqH3qxPZgwG3oNe5rhVJ8LtvWCtdY9kbBKgwP3a4SGOwPUiLon7lJoEbh37SsY-k_6SvFSdUIeQZ1wAuhUpfcj_JA8HE/s320/I.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">one of my favourites is this enormous trunk with a hollowed section</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE8dIs8gCBo1ooB5tIk6kLeSPubdtXwNjkNrEIRbQHmIuKNFy5Zuc2CIrtyLYnQdeIrELOtdKm0OxMtor3olhcJ_WqHvhVmJ7U7uW4g74HCruljI4e628-q-EreCvXVWYHaVmVMK1ZxW1VAfIijGXqcWLVKL7OGLhzgU2Lt2frbufbniE0eNaER5_QpRk/s1080/J.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE8dIs8gCBo1ooB5tIk6kLeSPubdtXwNjkNrEIRbQHmIuKNFy5Zuc2CIrtyLYnQdeIrELOtdKm0OxMtor3olhcJ_WqHvhVmJ7U7uW4g74HCruljI4e628-q-EreCvXVWYHaVmVMK1ZxW1VAfIijGXqcWLVKL7OGLhzgU2Lt2frbufbniE0eNaER5_QpRk/s320/J.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and this is what is inside the hollow, more roots.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dE-x1AVzRmcS0ko8yrNB4lnnfcKSWAcIlJXAy80ShCkkzpI5v_6A2dkxIoa0kY4epkjsyDfECmMGqyt-WodWou5dvlP7alwAoq4m4tco7NYJLsm-B7uQjAmZRRVas-hNUyVbMyzLe23rz22JU6-L1EhUCunkxO9wbKoqEEie9evKIrIfrkp7npuw8jc/s1080/K.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dE-x1AVzRmcS0ko8yrNB4lnnfcKSWAcIlJXAy80ShCkkzpI5v_6A2dkxIoa0kY4epkjsyDfECmMGqyt-WodWou5dvlP7alwAoq4m4tco7NYJLsm-B7uQjAmZRRVas-hNUyVbMyzLe23rz22JU6-L1EhUCunkxO9wbKoqEEie9evKIrIfrkp7npuw8jc/s320/K.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">a willow tree hanging over the lake</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZV6TlSRR83ThWWQuwliOsKKtLElww0khbXCroWGxA09I96b0wHQnmlZX6ivXOmGQrvcD_d12j0hPRz28hZPl7bq9WpMl6CwMb1VDrNFewm-bAXyVz5VZ2EmaURadXXb_w3f1tFJzOTXjBoS0-8Z9Yccvo5EO1q6sN7X-sGu71J6ieVCdv5ul_jXAnx9k/s1080/L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZV6TlSRR83ThWWQuwliOsKKtLElww0khbXCroWGxA09I96b0wHQnmlZX6ivXOmGQrvcD_d12j0hPRz28hZPl7bq9WpMl6CwMb1VDrNFewm-bAXyVz5VZ2EmaURadXXb_w3f1tFJzOTXjBoS0-8Z9Yccvo5EO1q6sN7X-sGu71J6ieVCdv5ul_jXAnx9k/s320/L.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and this, whatever it is, I have forgotten</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">moving on to something completely different, I was at the airport a few weeks ago, watching a Qantas plane come in, I have a video, but the file is too large and won't load.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I was expecting my blog friends Iris and her husband Ingo (rhymes with Dingo) and stood watching as every passenger disembarked, but they weren't there!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Their Qantas flight had been cancelled and they were on a different plane, so i ran back to the previous gate and there they were coming off Jetstar plane instead.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">They were headed to the Parklands Terminal and didn't know the way, so I offered to meet them and get them there. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB3fhpNhEhpVJIF5hM0_Gb80BIEJn7BMtLpH78uus55u4vB3tREThyKkfK5MA3HEpwX41Ng_-kudUwmVwZBd06F7l9BexuNV6_NFz1juw4-25pugK5pJlc_bAvpG8jHquXzNwgbxYVAXnjk496J4e-4eN-_AKGjpBPyueUSQ-aUVtlsJI8uec1Pvbj07s/s4032/N.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB3fhpNhEhpVJIF5hM0_Gb80BIEJn7BMtLpH78uus55u4vB3tREThyKkfK5MA3HEpwX41Ng_-kudUwmVwZBd06F7l9BexuNV6_NFz1juw4-25pugK5pJlc_bAvpG8jHquXzNwgbxYVAXnjk496J4e-4eN-_AKGjpBPyueUSQ-aUVtlsJI8uec1Pvbj07s/s320/N.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this "wasteland" is our interstate train station, I'm looking back towards the road at this point</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCt6CdyHLA94U-WYaAKsswl0siy6V4lfu5XAa3ZZHlWacSUu4wcjYWsa4GbMkqY3T_8MQjbmmW3sQboX_8Aprm6Y5sh9P3BAveK2uOjiB1heIOR5IgvRxGWgYTGobrl6rYhVvDHp4_lNQO-GQTXgOTkktn-aKVbkh1faXQmnkjqvBmVmadc3FiPNfcaV4/s4032/O.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCt6CdyHLA94U-WYaAKsswl0siy6V4lfu5XAa3ZZHlWacSUu4wcjYWsa4GbMkqY3T_8MQjbmmW3sQboX_8Aprm6Y5sh9P3BAveK2uOjiB1heIOR5IgvRxGWgYTGobrl6rYhVvDHp4_lNQO-GQTXgOTkktn-aKVbkh1faXQmnkjqvBmVmadc3FiPNfcaV4/s320/O.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">in the other direction is the long long walk to the platform</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-8H4Zomgj1D4rNXyC48qTdmpov_nMsht3lUmryP5HqEa26aoVnQZfusWnDNLugN3C6UtW3Lad-73ufFgc7QRb-MABAVfR_02vWldEAHRi4i0LuK2_nmRLJc0SsnQFQ_iKXt88ez5pPdzkb9E4NInGsq8Hzin5cZNcbfKiIx-_B8oBK1aEm0nBrydISlk/s4032/P.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-8H4Zomgj1D4rNXyC48qTdmpov_nMsht3lUmryP5HqEa26aoVnQZfusWnDNLugN3C6UtW3Lad-73ufFgc7QRb-MABAVfR_02vWldEAHRi4i0LuK2_nmRLJc0SsnQFQ_iKXt88ez5pPdzkb9E4NInGsq8Hzin5cZNcbfKiIx-_B8oBK1aEm0nBrydISlk/s320/P.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">where the sign tells you "yes this is the right place", finally! After catching a bus from the airport to the city, walking to the Central Market for a very quick look around, then another bus to the intersection of Anzac Highway and Richmond Road, where we had to walk to the corner, cross the road , walk down and around and down again to get to the "wasteland"</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4lO9z3jXJFM_PSbP9p3BewyJZnQSFnvJs1zRrHndr2Pde3x3f8rXkSEaXE-8AbggCBPzWp1RErpMn-WysXOeWtJ3gu0EH_k4hTERzbM11uAUCUBSD_yHJCz6usOj1OTcPcntPrKENSFOQBjVpeO0vaZDjX7mFR4EU_VYtTwuWqGpq9kAkOSQc7TPbgg/s4032/IMG_1773.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4lO9z3jXJFM_PSbP9p3BewyJZnQSFnvJs1zRrHndr2Pde3x3f8rXkSEaXE-8AbggCBPzWp1RErpMn-WysXOeWtJ3gu0EH_k4hTERzbM11uAUCUBSD_yHJCz6usOj1OTcPcntPrKENSFOQBjVpeO0vaZDjX7mFR4EU_VYtTwuWqGpq9kAkOSQc7TPbgg/s320/IMG_1773.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">from here you can arrive or leave on The Ghan which traveles between Adelaide and Darwin, The Indian Pacific which travels between Adelaide and Perth and The Overland, which travels between Adelaide and Melbourne. I'm not sure where The Great Southern Railway goes.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWOfM1utQVefobk827ajLUAPJGXfLVvTNtSBbnV3B4PTMgiQuKF78gEMjob4CVNnMWJIQsTA1-QZUiMKOOvm8lXzpXQ-Agn-esab-b1hQ5lWqf5_d8eqyX48OEoD8Zv9WVRAcv3CpPLocaIkj9Y-TK-pOK5HtmRNQDD71wkQnT6luN0oKAsShhuRMlKM/s4032/Q.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWOfM1utQVefobk827ajLUAPJGXfLVvTNtSBbnV3B4PTMgiQuKF78gEMjob4CVNnMWJIQsTA1-QZUiMKOOvm8lXzpXQ-Agn-esab-b1hQ5lWqf5_d8eqyX48OEoD8Zv9WVRAcv3CpPLocaIkj9Y-TK-pOK5HtmRNQDD71wkQnT6luN0oKAsShhuRMlKM/s320/Q.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And here they are waiting to check in their luggage. I'd planned on waiting and waving them off as the train left, but after sitting and sort of chatting (Iris and I are both shy) I learned the train wasn't going to leave until about 9.30pm! I couldn't stay that long and go home alone in the dark, so I said goodbye, (possibly a little too abruptly) and went home to my cat.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We had exchange Welcome gifts, but the photo won't load off my phone for some unknown reason. I will show that next week after I take new photos with my camera.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-63255290833845090072024-02-23T01:00:00.001+10:302024-02-23T01:00:00.142+10:30Wednesday's Words on a Friday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2TqGqbpJc681_iJrS-CMeZVffmcPWOYmt8thKTiVfsddrkWYJLLCjNI0Sq4evToxL0qxt0MyR6rok4oXM8Os4rq4dIyVco5kh2zhVXT65-WufU7_B4fIWIERrmy0RF46SdgB_lQhjgWIbQGmAuowXasI03nCrEURAW-vRQiZLbfrDtY-r6pZpDdhcTTs/s292/words%206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="292" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2TqGqbpJc681_iJrS-CMeZVffmcPWOYmt8thKTiVfsddrkWYJLLCjNI0Sq4evToxL0qxt0MyR6rok4oXM8Os4rq4dIyVco5kh2zhVXT65-WufU7_B4fIWIERrmy0RF46SdgB_lQhjgWIbQGmAuowXasI03nCrEURAW-vRQiZLbfrDtY-r6pZpDdhcTTs/s1600/words%206.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This month the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">Lissa</span> and can be found <a href="https://postcardsfromthebookstore.blogspot.com">here</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are:</u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> leap; original; unusual; 29; time;</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Here is my very short story:</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“It’s a <u>leap</u> year kids,
<u>29</u> days this month instead of the usual 28. You remember what that means?”</span></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Mum gets her birthday
on the actual day of her birth!” said Melissa. “That’s <u>unusual</u> isn’t it,” said
David. “but she ages with <u>time</u> just like the rest of us, if she only counted
each leap year birthday Mum would only be nine instead of thirty-six!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“That’s younger than
us,” said Melissa. “True,” said Dad, “and because it is an actual proper
birthday we need to come up with an <u>original</u> idea to celebrate the day.” “What
do you mean?” asked David. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Something more than
just an extra nice dinner and a cake,” said Dad. “Okay then,” said Melissa. “Let’s
begin with the most important question, how much do we have available in the ‘birthday
kitty’?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-30405643283930182222024-02-18T01:00:00.001+10:302024-02-18T01:00:00.142+10:30Sunday Selections #676<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nothing rude or vulgar though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. <a href="https://fromthehighrise.blogspot.com.au">Andrew</a> is one. <a href="https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com">Messymimi</a> is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.</span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;">Elephant's Child is taking a break this month.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com">Wisewebwoman</a> has also been joining us occasionally.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Going back to <span style="color: #cc0000;">2013</span> today, here are a few photos from my visit to Fremantle and Rottnest Island:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitreAptdtOUP_orKuENC_RfddSpZW3Wkn6OexR1HZnNnErRJ9q1SkY5cUyj-mOSGD0pTHFWYOMx9KDAYmiq6mPyW2dWQMXjUCNW0w-LiUyjFZ-rbpdrmhwiMkRXEHz_4DtBvo9_WYh_xQ7KZNM89h7IU2OTZzzkz7bUfLudLA64_LLBq8Cbc2VyEw0z_0/s2592/A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitreAptdtOUP_orKuENC_RfddSpZW3Wkn6OexR1HZnNnErRJ9q1SkY5cUyj-mOSGD0pTHFWYOMx9KDAYmiq6mPyW2dWQMXjUCNW0w-LiUyjFZ-rbpdrmhwiMkRXEHz_4DtBvo9_WYh_xQ7KZNM89h7IU2OTZzzkz7bUfLudLA64_LLBq8Cbc2VyEw0z_0/s320/A.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">down by the docks where the market sheds are was this old sailing ship</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYwx8-GRKhSnThEll75PeZVzrmqlVwoZFeCIDzg8-nR46qF1l2oi_xu81yaPcqC5uXvlmf5Y7YejFH5M7R-ZjeRFqKp4znQvpQHwh0HBaVm7iyZIIx0uksnKv786H4WnVcJF-V11mkJKmjq6GjKo0m7p2g8AmXbJPJ9ZDY_8_z6TujzYeFNLdHVTNWOKs/s2592/B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYwx8-GRKhSnThEll75PeZVzrmqlVwoZFeCIDzg8-nR46qF1l2oi_xu81yaPcqC5uXvlmf5Y7YejFH5M7R-ZjeRFqKp4znQvpQHwh0HBaVm7iyZIIx0uksnKv786H4WnVcJF-V11mkJKmjq6GjKo0m7p2g8AmXbJPJ9ZDY_8_z6TujzYeFNLdHVTNWOKs/s320/B.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">isn't she beautiful?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJph4I7ccZwQVL2ZHacmfduAPtwolIDeoQ6nh4V1T5TFuYIWug2i5WNl29qmD5hZploOKYWZZcqKDot85Bja8ku9cZtacQq88O7ZnLzzBhLaMcW1ZHY5ab7qVGcmR7dPfov6mtS1sQ8oPrypRvqlB8gaqILktQqdq2n_njgAIuSCxdmuwm6dd2JfMkpzI/s2592/C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJph4I7ccZwQVL2ZHacmfduAPtwolIDeoQ6nh4V1T5TFuYIWug2i5WNl29qmD5hZploOKYWZZcqKDot85Bja8ku9cZtacQq88O7ZnLzzBhLaMcW1ZHY5ab7qVGcmR7dPfov6mtS1sQ8oPrypRvqlB8gaqILktQqdq2n_njgAIuSCxdmuwm6dd2JfMkpzI/s320/C.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the sign tells you when she sails and the cost of tickets, but remember this was near eleven years ago.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ0rk2X0iDD5cnFBMazggCgS2iC895RplfkDH86RRU0uybKLMZ-od736WWaQgn6MTUdOmuh1FlesJ1alTDw4gHpNaor9dulyoo2G35CUUpiYhQtQzVYJzxkrCQ9bQeBWd0ydIl4aDOqFDjuBLSIVm4lubmJvjOiDE24akp4m5Uf_ACtC2vSgnko_zKejI/s2592/D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ0rk2X0iDD5cnFBMazggCgS2iC895RplfkDH86RRU0uybKLMZ-od736WWaQgn6MTUdOmuh1FlesJ1alTDw4gHpNaor9dulyoo2G35CUUpiYhQtQzVYJzxkrCQ9bQeBWd0ydIl4aDOqFDjuBLSIVm4lubmJvjOiDE24akp4m5Uf_ACtC2vSgnko_zKejI/s320/D.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">many of the Docklands buildings are painted white</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfiAhhUAT9sjOciXgQFv4DcpJudHFxf-MnF4akeJy4RS3_fXYaFn1u4vAsHNQqYLV6zCqjDrdm6P5PY-xcuXl-iJp65n2rIG9ggAJdlwdPqzWf0iEhyphenhyphenDQMUDJUdalwUBodIRApt46PEK87TxcAiktH728gAf8_eD_jex648uRCGDXT-IIWM0wrarYan6o/s2592/E.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfiAhhUAT9sjOciXgQFv4DcpJudHFxf-MnF4akeJy4RS3_fXYaFn1u4vAsHNQqYLV6zCqjDrdm6P5PY-xcuXl-iJp65n2rIG9ggAJdlwdPqzWf0iEhyphenhyphenDQMUDJUdalwUBodIRApt46PEK87TxcAiktH728gAf8_eD_jex648uRCGDXT-IIWM0wrarYan6o/s320/E.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and stand out brilliantly against the blue sky</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1jjMOx1twj4geLXgu8ZjYkW5f8oWYes6tI_bpeRsutWkd1-Xgff4sVkpWRLDU7oYdbDoXtFAo4_3c7hf9N4m6_PyHrhjTmyKuifkXPXBSZOWzYgjKKEskFIJrBfvUTwwbmdJq-mmrmJ8H4e3zC7pThBYPMkeJGqThqKcd6UPW38uomBYX9C2EwX1tq8/s2592/F.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1jjMOx1twj4geLXgu8ZjYkW5f8oWYes6tI_bpeRsutWkd1-Xgff4sVkpWRLDU7oYdbDoXtFAo4_3c7hf9N4m6_PyHrhjTmyKuifkXPXBSZOWzYgjKKEskFIJrBfvUTwwbmdJq-mmrmJ8H4e3zC7pThBYPMkeJGqThqKcd6UPW38uomBYX9C2EwX1tq8/s320/F.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">they are all very well maintained too</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbueJon-Ci7ylykKxRSgLEs5l-ct0zgQA_zNrj6QJg0YN-uArsDpCvu_HDk9U2eDlZWg3X4BMVSy-p7CYW9uVjtA9DEyxNmqXGAgqXqLVpuEJQcoTrWBP35LoegC00Rgvh-LdBpr9ZX1NJaHZ_CPf30xipsDwjfaaLCoLnJaSHFJnFXMwrXEEf0QdjH0/s2592/G.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbueJon-Ci7ylykKxRSgLEs5l-ct0zgQA_zNrj6QJg0YN-uArsDpCvu_HDk9U2eDlZWg3X4BMVSy-p7CYW9uVjtA9DEyxNmqXGAgqXqLVpuEJQcoTrWBP35LoegC00Rgvh-LdBpr9ZX1NJaHZ_CPf30xipsDwjfaaLCoLnJaSHFJnFXMwrXEEf0QdjH0/s320/G.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm sure you'll agree.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFQYHsXGgnLyZ5LJYN3LinbQ3N4gdenbU1o9tjRGgQ3on3g2CNpd0Pe4-LklCKynYI4yf6BVswkZK-OGR24CFbQR5nmeHF2MR89cqBGhyrsn29_Bqof7ljAWWoiMTuotDgQjFbLhzgNFJ9qyrWjVsOOTLqdXsGczn2dIwnhD3-DKURPoM0SIEgfX8pYnE/s2592/H.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFQYHsXGgnLyZ5LJYN3LinbQ3N4gdenbU1o9tjRGgQ3on3g2CNpd0Pe4-LklCKynYI4yf6BVswkZK-OGR24CFbQR5nmeHF2MR89cqBGhyrsn29_Bqof7ljAWWoiMTuotDgQjFbLhzgNFJ9qyrWjVsOOTLqdXsGczn2dIwnhD3-DKURPoM0SIEgfX8pYnE/s320/H.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">in the Fremantle shopping district is a small park with many statues, this is a statue of a man creating another one</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTEqZXREhI7EXDSz5XTHVz27hAwF4ZT_82Z_y3x4w_wk8Fa0X1RzXSMoiqa-CpHozNxMydjWpCwx31GVhgoCkTszNRRXy-v0UrnCAW0aVABIu5-7i-4th21JxnODrTdTHULY-fpVqeEakw7wLLV2BHw42737v1ZuVdkaE5mMEe7oSspXiF5FIU-wvtlg/s2592/I.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTEqZXREhI7EXDSz5XTHVz27hAwF4ZT_82Z_y3x4w_wk8Fa0X1RzXSMoiqa-CpHozNxMydjWpCwx31GVhgoCkTszNRRXy-v0UrnCAW0aVABIu5-7i-4th21JxnODrTdTHULY-fpVqeEakw7wLLV2BHw42737v1ZuVdkaE5mMEe7oSspXiF5FIU-wvtlg/s320/I.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">stepping back to see a wider view</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cuStFyJ5fTWj3VcosFDuf53mXcFd0rKmYAiXpnVXxQRDs0DAlanxgfiT5zuBo-K-NhwKTTbiXwCTI4KPuFyI76__ZRf5SpRiiKS3OCfGL4DqonBUo1ckWYTNAZyiBeF4D1zq8MfxC6QYbuactH4MpkuQ4wCc4tpoXKA93YylZCh92cd-lUugysX6JTs/s2592/J.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cuStFyJ5fTWj3VcosFDuf53mXcFd0rKmYAiXpnVXxQRDs0DAlanxgfiT5zuBo-K-NhwKTTbiXwCTI4KPuFyI76__ZRf5SpRiiKS3OCfGL4DqonBUo1ckWYTNAZyiBeF4D1zq8MfxC6QYbuactH4MpkuQ4wCc4tpoXKA93YylZCh92cd-lUugysX6JTs/s320/J.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">another gentleman, a pilot if I remember rightly.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGG9DKesGoB_oNJLkbx9bM55rzC_X-49SOgT1mqJ1S0KNo3pwi8kUy8jJ6x7bJs-03Y0IT_i_9JdiwSk9PlGq1A85GzwgC-YLhZRD0FI-qeHawB2vJSFNnUEAvgvCEp7-YrUUEpXTllVLKN8OkQA-jMNuA-_-jZNxoavA0MmwMZUd-QscAdLmCbZBLVo/s2592/K.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGG9DKesGoB_oNJLkbx9bM55rzC_X-49SOgT1mqJ1S0KNo3pwi8kUy8jJ6x7bJs-03Y0IT_i_9JdiwSk9PlGq1A85GzwgC-YLhZRD0FI-qeHawB2vJSFNnUEAvgvCEp7-YrUUEpXTllVLKN8OkQA-jMNuA-_-jZNxoavA0MmwMZUd-QscAdLmCbZBLVo/s320/K.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">brightly coloured bollards to prevent traffic flowing through</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDIfMcR4PaK2ZM3eKjjAisJjc1MqKUoUuNOZQZ88TJUmEQq5a4L0bQshyOeghKBKso7um0tZ52ff8QQOK23kBemotjCeEb-EsekaMo82kJEwvzVRropQ-9t6WQcOQ70IYbpA91borC3zq3mc-CBvr0DjUFwDLPCgSmcj_1lFJs-wccvBpshD8311LdmKo/s2592/L.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDIfMcR4PaK2ZM3eKjjAisJjc1MqKUoUuNOZQZ88TJUmEQq5a4L0bQshyOeghKBKso7um0tZ52ff8QQOK23kBemotjCeEb-EsekaMo82kJEwvzVRropQ-9t6WQcOQ70IYbpA91borC3zq3mc-CBvr0DjUFwDLPCgSmcj_1lFJs-wccvBpshD8311LdmKo/s320/L.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this was the ferry R and I rode on the cross the sea to Rottnest Island</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVK-9x54xKNRL22ZCYdRcV-b1bplGf0O5i8x-AI6ZXF2ri3s8Al61Y8cN6G-lLDAoHQLAqs5IDSkk0RJUSlMCJyZQ7JfcsWDMCJNrlE54kARoaXF-H-g1OK5zqvbpeYavJB-GpwJ_gacV_qR2RBn5EDQHBkNa8QewqAlpJEFmcUyzFWGigsoWZHpeSWcE/s2592/M.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVK-9x54xKNRL22ZCYdRcV-b1bplGf0O5i8x-AI6ZXF2ri3s8Al61Y8cN6G-lLDAoHQLAqs5IDSkk0RJUSlMCJyZQ7JfcsWDMCJNrlE54kARoaXF-H-g1OK5zqvbpeYavJB-GpwJ_gacV_qR2RBn5EDQHBkNa8QewqAlpJEFmcUyzFWGigsoWZHpeSWcE/s320/M.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">looking quite sleek when turning into the mooring point as we waited to be taken back to Fremantle</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4zPC-D2ndcZZjs5TJ28wC9pkAGKDxpA9ZaaTwxNLH3lXlT6HscjyNp0-NZni6-5nEMoGjWdH1gQIRwmbLPuf3RlmIGnuVEZshHRJxC8bOWnQr_mHvXBtmIRpLkSOqjXX2JGkYxipFffcElawmSNHMXh2h93TdPFBfeeeSY3gvZfRBMd9MBie1rIFzLI/s2592/N.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4zPC-D2ndcZZjs5TJ28wC9pkAGKDxpA9ZaaTwxNLH3lXlT6HscjyNp0-NZni6-5nEMoGjWdH1gQIRwmbLPuf3RlmIGnuVEZshHRJxC8bOWnQr_mHvXBtmIRpLkSOqjXX2JGkYxipFffcElawmSNHMXh2h93TdPFBfeeeSY3gvZfRBMd9MBie1rIFzLI/s320/N.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the picnic tables near the cafes often have a few quokkas picking up crumbs</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1jnV_145Z_KfhAGke1YnnMRqaCQ0CXXLh6_gjNG_b_DWdSglF8jXnbKRK0CvPfCedRTfEv_3cXiWq1w6IikOHfYIfMZmkcGXYFt_xXd-USjC7fWSmUfsHeL6dZZkbThQxusCwaXnISAIjBwH1692-rBYEq7NtMZ3PKnyWzmZN-hGlCn2U_53reBK1l4/s2592/O.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI94hZGjomhC4649Fzq4Lh8uupeENvQBbIKzTqhwMbJqUnO2dZlLHrfcPvyJD-fZRno2nWI5lOtukNwyJVUrkgn-fAv9Ew_I39kUgxNV8NFn-fBsPu0cz-V7SuLaaidgOSQwik6BVDZANatzBgCnrJIp_wLb-1lw5-bL23GuSp8QFnU7BCGYBzil4KfF0/s320/R.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">aren't you finished taking photos yet? I'd like some privacy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Coming back to 2024:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaCtNlMMR8FfSPAvRV8y09hVzqufYykt87vE1zE2z7y5yWw5LYYKwT5bcxT9VI64pkIV-O-pIc0cvqu0gJH7LruVQM8NGS1oDwQOPF5S0Kstc-JzuiWv-lMCzEcQ_ZOQtBo0VZzlH9h41NO80JiqnlLOuaSxzAScqDlww-1G7RPyAeL0XdlS8J_77RWM/s4080/S.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaCtNlMMR8FfSPAvRV8y09hVzqufYykt87vE1zE2z7y5yWw5LYYKwT5bcxT9VI64pkIV-O-pIc0cvqu0gJH7LruVQM8NGS1oDwQOPF5S0Kstc-JzuiWv-lMCzEcQ_ZOQtBo0VZzlH9h41NO80JiqnlLOuaSxzAScqDlww-1G7RPyAeL0XdlS8J_77RWM/s320/S.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the girls looking sleepy and napping a lot while they had covid</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbvkWjvO1OaEg3hyphenhyphen93ZkNL7_6xDyboU5EOWiHE68by72qll81La7ho7UvutBnWh-B3alJ7ShpqyfvA6sKO0WtF633SLGj9PyZJkm0kVMloqwk3NX-IB9Td8bD-WiL-Dx1MTjrHb8qoyYBEfMCQ635EQpzsN3gbJoUyeuPUUJoSN_XlACZmslWVjC7egz8/s4080/T.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbvkWjvO1OaEg3hyphenhyphen93ZkNL7_6xDyboU5EOWiHE68by72qll81La7ho7UvutBnWh-B3alJ7ShpqyfvA6sKO0WtF633SLGj9PyZJkm0kVMloqwk3NX-IB9Td8bD-WiL-Dx1MTjrHb8qoyYBEfMCQ635EQpzsN3gbJoUyeuPUUJoSN_XlACZmslWVjC7egz8/s320/T.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and MUCH better just a few days later.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I've been told they are back to normal now and running around like wild things again.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-53982981610860356602024-02-16T01:00:00.001+10:302024-02-16T01:00:00.148+10:30Wednesday's Words on a Friday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLkVaQnwZRmKpofu3qZkD-S5QT_J5GFGwZHfq_XBojwvZ16sXdJ1PQtZjckdEpx-fIBRB4e9q4eVQOW2Oo0AhUoayDv9aH7uTO0Vq7enWhL54KkSbAAHGJkdpHgl3z8sXn0vyLYw3rWaABlu_Z8vERAiX21vPWsXKNjIdRfkdyhC-80EFxgtkGVzm-vc/s320/Words%2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="320" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLkVaQnwZRmKpofu3qZkD-S5QT_J5GFGwZHfq_XBojwvZ16sXdJ1PQtZjckdEpx-fIBRB4e9q4eVQOW2Oo0AhUoayDv9aH7uTO0Vq7enWhL54KkSbAAHGJkdpHgl3z8sXn0vyLYw3rWaABlu_Z8vERAiX21vPWsXKNjIdRfkdyhC-80EFxgtkGVzm-vc/s1600/Words%2010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This month the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">Lissa</span> and can be found <a href="https://postcardsfromthebookstore.blogspot.com">here</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. meh 2. woo 3. yum 4. uh-oh 5. yippee</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Here is my story:</u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the Ryek home, Jenna
was teasing Elena. “Today is Valentine’s Day! Are you hoping Simon will <u>woo</u> you
with a bouquet of flowers? Maybe a box of chocolates, <u>yum</u> <u>yum</u>?” she danced
around her sister, grinning and making kissing sounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Stop it Jenna,” said
Elena, “one day you will struck by cupid’s arrow and hope for flowers and a
declaration of love.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Never!” said nine year
old Jenna with horror on her face. “Boys are dirty and smelly!” “Wait and see,”
said Elena, “I once thought as you did.” “<u>Meh</u>” replied Jenna and walked off to
see who was at the door. “<u>Uh-oh</u>,” she said, spying Simon Goldberg through the
living room window. “It’s for you Elena,” with another smirk and another kissy
sound, she opened the door. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Simon! What a
surprise!, those roses are beautiful,” she showed him into the living room
where Elena was pretending to study the books on the shelves, then danced into
the kitchen to find her mother taking apple pies out of the oven. “Thank you
mum, I love apple pie!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“I heard you teasing
Elena before,” said Abigail Ryek. “You mustn’t tease your sister. Now go and
tidy yourself, Simon is here for dinner tonight.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Oh <u>yippee</u>,” muttered
Jenna under her breath. “now I have to watch them being lovey dovey across the
table. I do hope she shares those chocolates though.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-37900992906232499092024-02-12T01:00:00.001+10:302024-02-12T01:00:00.261+10:30Musical Monday<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Remember the days long ago when song lyrics were enunciated and easy to understand?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Skeeter Davis: The End of the World:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ocFKaN_xvfc" width="320" youtube-src-id="ocFKaN_xvfc"></iframe></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I hope it plays.</span></p>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-44627289515404574602024-02-11T01:00:00.001+10:302024-02-11T01:00:00.245+10:30Sunday Selections #675<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nothing rude or vulgar though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme is now continued by <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com.au">Elephant's Child</a> and I join in as do a few others. <a href="https://fromthehighrise.blogspot.com.au">Andrew</a> is one. <a href="https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com">Messymimi</a> is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.</span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;">*Elephant's Child is taking a break this month.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com">Wisewebwoman</a> has also been joining us occasionally.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Beginning today with a few more of the sculptures:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKvl3NKlOg7lnGoy2nhENPDaKDUtbpClM2CquWy6iUqWg9iRo4JWZ0d1YSL-Pq0cl60kOqLjeQXqc_NW_FaqrXXzs8v2N_7PTQi-l1hjoF410XO2DMGnj-x0huoufeMhTJ-8vJV_cgFUmZZ0mlYGQ2Gl2tg0M0bcG8V3cy2MlJ-531YiVzN5RbmjJiow/s5184/A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKvl3NKlOg7lnGoy2nhENPDaKDUtbpClM2CquWy6iUqWg9iRo4JWZ0d1YSL-Pq0cl60kOqLjeQXqc_NW_FaqrXXzs8v2N_7PTQi-l1hjoF410XO2DMGnj-x0huoufeMhTJ-8vJV_cgFUmZZ0mlYGQ2Gl2tg0M0bcG8V3cy2MlJ-531YiVzN5RbmjJiow/s320/A.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">mother and baby dolphin</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzjPP8v_ofznvnv8qj729bVUg_kclfr_H4wt9zaYuhXmK-Mrb3m5zFogxv0LPuO02PCQgE6G-ZFITxXBxkSFNvvtcL3QxvlPuzkn9PxGspjG8pcHmbVpLl-F8UctwKn2mOHfQbHOTFoYagPtZQpSj-OKnzxE4PzIIEsaSyYhdB0zH5F1v4R5nUb2vSnU/s5184/B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzjPP8v_ofznvnv8qj729bVUg_kclfr_H4wt9zaYuhXmK-Mrb3m5zFogxv0LPuO02PCQgE6G-ZFITxXBxkSFNvvtcL3QxvlPuzkn9PxGspjG8pcHmbVpLl-F8UctwKn2mOHfQbHOTFoYagPtZQpSj-OKnzxE4PzIIEsaSyYhdB0zH5F1v4R5nUb2vSnU/s320/B.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">giant carved wood snail</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg53UdhxvhWYiZl3EQAtKQw9BAZwFdlrhdnq8vuEsgjjnRf9j2NQt0Z5tEGFuVoEdrY6Ot2xV-wii7BVrqhzQwHqQr1FrbLhCa1QpV5RtHaH0tAXoFGal_ivuKSv41oHgbfo7yu_K3LO-4G-1Bw4bJGZECDFLm7jp_LKawOO3YHC7FuTRHOxk6c53wVygo/s5184/C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg53UdhxvhWYiZl3EQAtKQw9BAZwFdlrhdnq8vuEsgjjnRf9j2NQt0Z5tEGFuVoEdrY6Ot2xV-wii7BVrqhzQwHqQr1FrbLhCa1QpV5RtHaH0tAXoFGal_ivuKSv41oHgbfo7yu_K3LO-4G-1Bw4bJGZECDFLm7jp_LKawOO3YHC7FuTRHOxk6c53wVygo/s320/C.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I don't remember what this represented, it has gears and chains and a temperature guage I think, let me just look this up:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> labelled "Hippocampus" by Adrian Beacham: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Category: Environmental awareness</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"the Seahorse Hippocampus numbers have been in a constant decline mostly due to human influence. They are often plucked from their surroundings for aquariums or for use in alternative medicine. This hippocampus is a tribute to the humble seahorse."</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4jB24NJjjM9-ucLan5Lb6Xs4ykHFxwJ3BRGd9OXY3ASLFTyq0kib8YEdSN2pgi-SzKilntUs4YzTXNhylv5kkLkCMrwcdGQqQnNLy3vqvORvxnqk9fhu6vJRWC8RxSpvZuW2PlercAB-DyJXxGeH9NGANZAKmFQ7HsxQt49JTcDzvM46B8aYkENtyns/s5184/D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4jB24NJjjM9-ucLan5Lb6Xs4ykHFxwJ3BRGd9OXY3ASLFTyq0kib8YEdSN2pgi-SzKilntUs4YzTXNhylv5kkLkCMrwcdGQqQnNLy3vqvORvxnqk9fhu6vJRWC8RxSpvZuW2PlercAB-DyJXxGeH9NGANZAKmFQ7HsxQt49JTcDzvM46B8aYkENtyns/s320/D.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this colourful wheel is on the lawns surrounding the children's playground area.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDIm_QgfP7ERytMh_vg0KkWGqKEY_YNnynNBtnj0LW2azZeQIzvaTXalVa64DnKFlhwgrnTcLX8o44RpD6kOqvoxDRgjJfzgZXkXmWSgETkzu392qQm9iOfIaSEmf4OSaMS2y3Fe-NMce4WPW1k4GCwAmlbBQkCct2s-lFuFAsN0upChfXw6T0rC8zuA/s320/F.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">colourful and spinning in the breeze, also on the lawned area by the playground.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdTIjcCnNe8MyEdqfcbOvtf_2QyMIZEhZUrCS_8BOiFqZ0DVrqvWfk1MFSIFGPhdR3K59vQr32KL4EKMF-X7p8dfMyrOu9hImb5HN8_K5JU6k-16HSRxfZYFvd0rH0ch_UaWduhSalM5nPcUdns2n6rajGt0t6QqZZSIip4UqMllfI2Xe2nq7AFE8uL-Q/s5184/G.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdTIjcCnNe8MyEdqfcbOvtf_2QyMIZEhZUrCS_8BOiFqZ0DVrqvWfk1MFSIFGPhdR3K59vQr32KL4EKMF-X7p8dfMyrOu9hImb5HN8_K5JU6k-16HSRxfZYFvd0rH0ch_UaWduhSalM5nPcUdns2n6rajGt0t6QqZZSIip4UqMllfI2Xe2nq7AFE8uL-Q/s320/G.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">rustic roses, the white background is a long tent with more exhibits inside, I didn't go in, "no-one" tried but declared it too warm inside</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJr4w6I_2-t-m-37okZyQS6AW-OOM0_HTUn-p104UdOlz8KrbJ34y-sHoH30MV8UkHee5tOSfh_Z9GImN1YDaW0kdZhSamTmLzdW0EpbfWmSLlLuATkQJPfhhfHqh2E_6KPSblOtJ-4BI_8AclcGi7R8O_34qvIfvTGnivZXRDSktlypFEjFBI0C1DtQI/s5184/H.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJr4w6I_2-t-m-37okZyQS6AW-OOM0_HTUn-p104UdOlz8KrbJ34y-sHoH30MV8UkHee5tOSfh_Z9GImN1YDaW0kdZhSamTmLzdW0EpbfWmSLlLuATkQJPfhhfHqh2E_6KPSblOtJ-4BI_8AclcGi7R8O_34qvIfvTGnivZXRDSktlypFEjFBI0C1DtQI/s320/H.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this is the one sculpture where I forgot to take a photo of the label, so I don't know the artist or the composition or what it represents, but I like it a lot.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYsGcP97o5SrHq1W69VnIfYKnL9_jIWYQhfa0YDUnzQoxI-SD_fGgKYvly7cPIpOP0HBrMihcnWYaPSKqHh4UA7i3XImiKr_akkR-U4v-A24xi18QKmcieanZ1cKLtGnZEWNY2QuJ9kxboxdgmeeTR783-TqYdLNmKIAr4GxY4s5lt0HrFBQ_TIXI_1SE/s5184/I.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYsGcP97o5SrHq1W69VnIfYKnL9_jIWYQhfa0YDUnzQoxI-SD_fGgKYvly7cPIpOP0HBrMihcnWYaPSKqHh4UA7i3XImiKr_akkR-U4v-A24xi18QKmcieanZ1cKLtGnZEWNY2QuJ9kxboxdgmeeTR783-TqYdLNmKIAr4GxY4s5lt0HrFBQ_TIXI_1SE/s320/I.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">gears? cogs? nuts and bolts too</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2OtcqJs68wNtzoLDThZoS6pncEmq5uWssIxF0JfS_9I3-oO2BzxTS8-3zCQ-GUnMMriYP3AJ-Yc0e8NNTZXmey5_TS1blcmLMgZhRDwxGC_rQyIWrzg2j-lefmnUXXctir9GIkRwksT1rQ3p9-I21D0qniQeFosBBPhyWzA_E9GVZoXs8liMLq3PUatw/s5184/J.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2OtcqJs68wNtzoLDThZoS6pncEmq5uWssIxF0JfS_9I3-oO2BzxTS8-3zCQ-GUnMMriYP3AJ-Yc0e8NNTZXmey5_TS1blcmLMgZhRDwxGC_rQyIWrzg2j-lefmnUXXctir9GIkRwksT1rQ3p9-I21D0qniQeFosBBPhyWzA_E9GVZoXs8liMLq3PUatw/s320/J.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">bits of hose. Another one I would like to have in my garden.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">back at home there is progress on the painting of the pair of Gnomes:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHgE26Y9NMo4G2h8VNCxCX-63oOvOVvgoXIL6ck_fX8JTBwDr-l2O2vbDDqH-6MfU5h2vf-6Sq25zF3_o5HJdH1HhQY9iagoUNUM7DNSWoRIpHHzGJ7wVs_-OIdlzKUbuveIro-mwS5L5fbRrN_9HvSiBhZAxSTncyR0CtRXouRJ5QAn2gqwL3u5Gu7o/s5184/K.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHgE26Y9NMo4G2h8VNCxCX-63oOvOVvgoXIL6ck_fX8JTBwDr-l2O2vbDDqH-6MfU5h2vf-6Sq25zF3_o5HJdH1HhQY9iagoUNUM7DNSWoRIpHHzGJ7wVs_-OIdlzKUbuveIro-mwS5L5fbRrN_9HvSiBhZAxSTncyR0CtRXouRJ5QAn2gqwL3u5Gu7o/s320/K.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I dithered over what colour to do their (fur) boots</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeI4EVRRgWVGJzjiwnYu_Zr01ASNKlNQZIf7_2NqjYUbCiyP_lARFMUzW_AUu7LbcWeAWVZgTxdTiABb-_7LjxwpCpjllDH02rYgydtpEN9EyaWUOw2ip53TqhHYBKLZYF6FsA0dKlDoQcKf-aG_sYfPn8MBt497w6R_PYma05dgrkpmYVb1IO9YMhdU/s5184/L.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeI4EVRRgWVGJzjiwnYu_Zr01ASNKlNQZIf7_2NqjYUbCiyP_lARFMUzW_AUu7LbcWeAWVZgTxdTiABb-_7LjxwpCpjllDH02rYgydtpEN9EyaWUOw2ip53TqhHYBKLZYF6FsA0dKlDoQcKf-aG_sYfPn8MBt497w6R_PYma05dgrkpmYVb1IO9YMhdU/s320/L.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Brown for Mr. Gnome and a copper/tan mix for Mrs Gnome, to almost match her copper hair and I put copper touches on his pipe too. I still have to paint his beard and moustache and the seat they are on.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj22qFCEzou_hxjBHVDIccXPCfKWpw3mA82PQOBP3289NN3S9lpSkE5uBZlDrSd3PdQF9h4k1PN1-Xu3xX7wLXdcWElIr8APrucQpHiJDGm4VRLYDd94uvyWLKEj6lew_UKZ46YSMihAebN8xExUvAA7WgZzbOJkt9bczwFo7nvxHF6QmXup3fEJgRaVgM/s5184/M.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj22qFCEzou_hxjBHVDIccXPCfKWpw3mA82PQOBP3289NN3S9lpSkE5uBZlDrSd3PdQF9h4k1PN1-Xu3xX7wLXdcWElIr8APrucQpHiJDGm4VRLYDd94uvyWLKEj6lew_UKZ46YSMihAebN8xExUvAA7WgZzbOJkt9bczwFo7nvxHF6QmXup3fEJgRaVgM/s320/M.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">on my hot tiny front porch this pot of greenery is doing well still with just a few browned spots of sunburn</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_VZMtnZ6WsW0CpCmMwYfqHzAnblwp7bi57hIVNTDrZ3ZtDDFx-snOcGH_xFs9378azW_v3LRz3nesPBic-7tlXts2AuwPjcnejBc4hrMyZ7xdjmYtKWhV6lULMv_O4RELTmwp4r6cah9M9QFFtFzAp2tEYqlvHrycalx38hMRJvgnUfuenSEpojhPaI/s5184/N.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_VZMtnZ6WsW0CpCmMwYfqHzAnblwp7bi57hIVNTDrZ3ZtDDFx-snOcGH_xFs9378azW_v3LRz3nesPBic-7tlXts2AuwPjcnejBc4hrMyZ7xdjmYtKWhV6lULMv_O4RELTmwp4r6cah9M9QFFtFzAp2tEYqlvHrycalx38hMRJvgnUfuenSEpojhPaI/s320/N.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">down in the garden much of my "donkey tails" has died off from lack of watering ("they" have raised the cost of water again!)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6isrIYR-TVDxW7EOo8tZ2OswmA7GssXbmcW33WBx7QJf0Eyz43OxpI73_pSpfB5txxZs6rQz0D4yVuXpztZ41fzDaw6Tii3Ny3G6bgkPSDLGX-M1LhfENj8lrnDhwGDTcp6pq1j_NLW-2tuwbQaKzP8SUweYq8HW_80ip9YHqRTIscXgGsMf3R07I600/s5184/O.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6isrIYR-TVDxW7EOo8tZ2OswmA7GssXbmcW33WBx7QJf0Eyz43OxpI73_pSpfB5txxZs6rQz0D4yVuXpztZ41fzDaw6Tii3Ny3G6bgkPSDLGX-M1LhfENj8lrnDhwGDTcp6pq1j_NLW-2tuwbQaKzP8SUweYq8HW_80ip9YHqRTIscXgGsMf3R07I600/s320/O.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">another donkey tail in a different section that gets more shade is doing better, but I should take cuttings and make new plants before they die altogether</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFkxkwwIIatmssZbB6JGH6O1KOVoHZqCfeltCENr_Isj0Rd5FcInSEw2kulaWqmgBd2RdyUU3MtZxBRSOYvjGTqNOkFSYh54FHYpgwWnJLzN3bjor9ck46x7G0FHEQ2hnLMxxd6vi8f72vdJK4WLvf57Q1Ga0P4_oL45izA-oRfd8KwMppEVUKej6OVQ/s5184/P.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFkxkwwIIatmssZbB6JGH6O1KOVoHZqCfeltCENr_Isj0Rd5FcInSEw2kulaWqmgBd2RdyUU3MtZxBRSOYvjGTqNOkFSYh54FHYpgwWnJLzN3bjor9ck46x7G0FHEQ2hnLMxxd6vi8f72vdJK4WLvf57Q1Ga0P4_oL45izA-oRfd8KwMppEVUKej6OVQ/s320/P.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the monsteras are doing well, they seem to be getting the right amount of sun and shade</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Way across town:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaq6L3ckNkSvaaIqqYSLI6zn-tJo90ApvLIeMd2dk_XpHwl_4Cf9zOONx8nXrRGgb0Vvr_iyZ2Qmk66kyevZjrjJUHBS0N1GFsbeNdXz-Z7D087NfJB00KLI3_3cjVVmbqgRUt71nkJyH9RQpTZmf8xxqxHMaCeMb5ceap9RzjyO4bCVwkN6BWKeORpF8/s240/Q.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="180" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaq6L3ckNkSvaaIqqYSLI6zn-tJo90ApvLIeMd2dk_XpHwl_4Cf9zOONx8nXrRGgb0Vvr_iyZ2Qmk66kyevZjrjJUHBS0N1GFsbeNdXz-Z7D087NfJB00KLI3_3cjVVmbqgRUt71nkJyH9RQpTZmf8xxqxHMaCeMb5ceap9RzjyO4bCVwkN6BWKeORpF8/s1600/Q.JPG" width="180" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Ana manages the tramopline on her own, though Dad J is always there supervising</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_yojRlwEMepEe3cwkchWaeiih3h_gCnoyFd_qcwz_iZIc7Zx2Dou-d-J1Zy2x_9FO2uDJRleWvQ9ZQt5B9l4ciMG3-7TUBsKENoPh3kT8Xtc7rbHrTnuwz0S3E9MkYKwegq3f0zmGhgmIn9r1DKxKrNv4_1vkWIv12wcMrPKhKWUBWkqpAoR1O_2Xnxg/s480/R.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_yojRlwEMepEe3cwkchWaeiih3h_gCnoyFd_qcwz_iZIc7Zx2Dou-d-J1Zy2x_9FO2uDJRleWvQ9ZQt5B9l4ciMG3-7TUBsKENoPh3kT8Xtc7rbHrTnuwz0S3E9MkYKwegq3f0zmGhgmIn9r1DKxKrNv4_1vkWIv12wcMrPKhKWUBWkqpAoR1O_2Xnxg/s320/R.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Gen is being a "cool kid" in her sunglasses, just look how long her hair is now!</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-82855925533481477952024-02-09T01:00:00.001+10:302024-02-09T01:00:00.140+10:30Wednesday's Words on a Friday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QoL56w0FIgnn2McZXzwj9ZI-i2MsYCqSnTrOgMtmx9i1zjhdORQyYsPyUyry1rh474V8DOGwnbybSXquAqPGRFlPn28W35zcLNmmS0yGXeZR7yU_s9tG9_1nFpfV8wJwwVLCrNuRj1JwB84JtuEhyphenhyphenHJDbjdFO1pA8eFfWAp9shM176P4Z15t3VaqMpM/s319/words%205.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="158" data-original-width="319" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QoL56w0FIgnn2McZXzwj9ZI-i2MsYCqSnTrOgMtmx9i1zjhdORQyYsPyUyry1rh474V8DOGwnbybSXquAqPGRFlPn28W35zcLNmmS0yGXeZR7yU_s9tG9_1nFpfV8wJwwVLCrNuRj1JwB84JtuEhyphenhyphenHJDbjdFO1pA8eFfWAp9shM176P4Z15t3VaqMpM/s1600/words%205.png" width="319" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This month the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">Lissa</span> and can be found <a href="https://postcardsfromthebookstore.blogspot.com">here</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. soul 2. brilliant 3. breakfast 4. winter 5. moon</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">also including <a href="https://krydderuglen.blogspot.com">Charlotte's</a> colour of the month: <b>black</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Here is my story:</u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Watching the sun
glinting off the waves like a million <u>brilliant</u> diamonds had always soothed my
<u>soul</u> and I often sat on my porch to eat <u>breakfast</u> while the sun came up. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Today was very
different, it was <u>winter</u> and I stood on my porch at midnight, watching the <u>moon</u>
instead. A single silver stream cut across the <b><u>black</u></b> silk of the smooth water and I
lifted my camera to snap a photo. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The day itself had been
dark in spite of the winter sunshine. A small group of friends gathered around
the gravesite, each of us holding a single candle as we spoke of the year that
had gone by since we buried our best friend. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The most brilliant of
minds, destined for fame and glory, gone in a single moment from a brain
aneurysm. He wouldn’t want us to be sad and grieving too long, we all knew that, and had agreed that this one year anniversary would be the only one.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-42884841967880927992024-02-07T08:10:00.004+10:302024-02-07T08:10:45.420+10:30Breaking (bad) news<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Son J, mum S and the twins all have covid.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">😢</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I was there for several hours just last Monday and have tested negative so far, but will continue daily testing for a week or maybe ten days, just to be sure.</span></p>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-86236463941878120632024-02-04T01:00:00.001+10:302024-02-04T01:00:00.259+10:30Sunday Selections #674<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nothing rude or vulgar though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. <a href="https://fromthehighrise.blogspot.com.au">Andrew</a> is one. <a href="https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com">Messymimi</a> is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com.au">Elephant's Child</a> is taking a break this month.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com">Wisewebwoman</a> has also been joining us occasionally.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Starting with a few more of the sculptures at the beach:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTWAD4usQQih_puuMn6Yat3f2JSaDapVGI0OS0dCIqDimiwgTiXmnhU0Cj2Czushqfil-9KlmMEBP9i4tGWFG9Qd39Rb0uAW-UevvMVQQ03WAn3J2zmmDCQunJLDcGRuU7e81JnSRWGft9bQNfTzs7-DWYG7WCI0y_4BlCszEKUcL9RfbsxY3sZeKuuJw/s5184/A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTWAD4usQQih_puuMn6Yat3f2JSaDapVGI0OS0dCIqDimiwgTiXmnhU0Cj2Czushqfil-9KlmMEBP9i4tGWFG9Qd39Rb0uAW-UevvMVQQ03WAn3J2zmmDCQunJLDcGRuU7e81JnSRWGft9bQNfTzs7-DWYG7WCI0y_4BlCszEKUcL9RfbsxY3sZeKuuJw/s320/A.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this is one of the older ones from previous years, I like it.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNmo5yofD9p_5kctfx_04Zpd4Vaz299MrKEe8OEKbPpMzSNIpz7_fvxU9-ynGKevIZec6t9kYuNqhyphenhyphenbjSiSAKj20ikRoDjMamCX8bS5M6oTFm6tNVJWlmeV_GlDNUtQYxwT2SFRSFUpBb-THM35Sn-V8LOGPR0vTvCxOxPMLzFuTuxb-yiYYSOandjgI/s5184/B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNmo5yofD9p_5kctfx_04Zpd4Vaz299MrKEe8OEKbPpMzSNIpz7_fvxU9-ynGKevIZec6t9kYuNqhyphenhyphenbjSiSAKj20ikRoDjMamCX8bS5M6oTFm6tNVJWlmeV_GlDNUtQYxwT2SFRSFUpBb-THM35Sn-V8LOGPR0vTvCxOxPMLzFuTuxb-yiYYSOandjgI/s320/B.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this one is titled "Hands Up"</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYJDWA0c5qLdHVhpWl2_eYi0rozqwX2X8utXUr80e7bPMh-xdNuqZvjqI0EY_OSsygdrF8hjT17g8YtsyflgMJQhyphenhyphen-vBLNimgnx9xTOGttgGC4lckEPdLTIoItxRbKX6lMqQpgmqOC2OkTUmaa73hgfYAhk0HJJIdZMnm8cS4_sBgAo4GH1zsuxgiXlSA/s5184/C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYJDWA0c5qLdHVhpWl2_eYi0rozqwX2X8utXUr80e7bPMh-xdNuqZvjqI0EY_OSsygdrF8hjT17g8YtsyflgMJQhyphenhyphen-vBLNimgnx9xTOGttgGC4lckEPdLTIoItxRbKX6lMqQpgmqOC2OkTUmaa73hgfYAhk0HJJIdZMnm8cS4_sBgAo4GH1zsuxgiXlSA/s320/C.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">a shiny stainless steel face, many people passing declared it creepy, and I didn't like it much either, though it is well made.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhvNytDpSY2MfS1WZe-Hf2OqwVe4wV3PPzt8OYz7ssn_7tpd8yKfPcSf621xhu-B94Km0O-g9GRbAeG_NtrLB4a-fA-wt4tx47Vm75ymHWxCmJw1nIt3EjeHslUp4rsg6o0xE9oguLFHxeU8RHtqdVCrDzZPBNds6KYe2SROgY1NFpXvpcLAR9tjfrDI/s5184/D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhvNytDpSY2MfS1WZe-Hf2OqwVe4wV3PPzt8OYz7ssn_7tpd8yKfPcSf621xhu-B94Km0O-g9GRbAeG_NtrLB4a-fA-wt4tx47Vm75ymHWxCmJw1nIt3EjeHslUp4rsg6o0xE9oguLFHxeU8RHtqdVCrDzZPBNds6KYe2SROgY1NFpXvpcLAR9tjfrDI/s320/D.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">another shiny steel one, I would love to be this flexible, how about you?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhal2L47xpHKCPHc8YecMzv6Fx_YUxeSY-nl2KCIwUHkRbuImwm0ApUSjhzG8qz1-2EjEyvPzVs3Xk3YWYYPO06lxJhWgb4-xBATZ_WZSsih6oRqTsS8hinZPOKDQJkCLcFvVvGUbQSrgMuMq5WVR5hMC66hdyuj5LPvQMIhWGlr7j99DTjz53rf6D3njY/s5184/E.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhal2L47xpHKCPHc8YecMzv6Fx_YUxeSY-nl2KCIwUHkRbuImwm0ApUSjhzG8qz1-2EjEyvPzVs3Xk3YWYYPO06lxJhWgb4-xBATZ_WZSsih6oRqTsS8hinZPOKDQJkCLcFvVvGUbQSrgMuMq5WVR5hMC66hdyuj5LPvQMIhWGlr7j99DTjz53rf6D3njY/s320/E.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">four separate pieces, when viewed from either end</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLY-yOckKRMrdybiNxnyByeigv73vzG85V6pvpDhe7hiQa6Y-yiPDg9usXWGZNxHHMGYaFkYDOoNCWyjBQ3gWRUF6qIRcfNX7TawZznWfMEqtFrEdSj0LZYjqUeDUWXjkQhYNVht3sFH1DvXf08HoKI2-gt0lIuZN_GBgX-AulAwBpKk4iyVKSrRv8kUA/s5184/F.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLY-yOckKRMrdybiNxnyByeigv73vzG85V6pvpDhe7hiQa6Y-yiPDg9usXWGZNxHHMGYaFkYDOoNCWyjBQ3gWRUF6qIRcfNX7TawZznWfMEqtFrEdSj0LZYjqUeDUWXjkQhYNVht3sFH1DvXf08HoKI2-gt0lIuZN_GBgX-AulAwBpKk4iyVKSrRv8kUA/s320/F.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">they become two people</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHuU-5-iDwr90SPKJ1CtdvFzNt_yRZ7aeLT-nC7GzWEfEiML4d4qj2JsrrOThYz5kB5tmqxD22yuxsihBvO5om1eWLFyRp37NWs7maepnLfk77IPQmNur2ERxjDuPt69DWytMnLv0dvBuIAOjBiKtM3DMCoHq1aIC1cxsvnnNDAqp-Lve4bFkMeOM5Y60/s5184/G.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHuU-5-iDwr90SPKJ1CtdvFzNt_yRZ7aeLT-nC7GzWEfEiML4d4qj2JsrrOThYz5kB5tmqxD22yuxsihBvO5om1eWLFyRp37NWs7maepnLfk77IPQmNur2ERxjDuPt69DWytMnLv0dvBuIAOjBiKtM3DMCoHq1aIC1cxsvnnNDAqp-Lve4bFkMeOM5Y60/s320/G.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">little girl facing the ocean</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOXtXrU4s-i2JMgb0D-62-7X_2lRGCODnj9xT5_7FB8ydXNQxV7LuDv9x6eLKnLmB_5AztF-OkBiZHFdTRyJDptkwliS6fGk_IdehnY6D-5cAN6ChBPRYyglfEDpUS-2ahtfKP5hbW1gwMegZFL8kQQLjXHA6jXsvBou7Gq5TV0TptDV8JBYIhY3R03_s/s5184/H.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOXtXrU4s-i2JMgb0D-62-7X_2lRGCODnj9xT5_7FB8ydXNQxV7LuDv9x6eLKnLmB_5AztF-OkBiZHFdTRyJDptkwliS6fGk_IdehnY6D-5cAN6ChBPRYyglfEDpUS-2ahtfKP5hbW1gwMegZFL8kQQLjXHA6jXsvBou7Gq5TV0TptDV8JBYIhY3R03_s/s320/H.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">with a basket of flowers</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigqmivnMaeCRHWn7vvl60D6o57Aj7LCUKLTiKVeW1J-_gmA7Mff4A3iTTj_aaAVd2Qc-NzVTakkYwMJqc55wxbTkMeApbXYiIsFcA7y94yHFvl-TJZNLyFCWLaJJuVjDmwgtfCs74CzKwAQPSWbKYzPIFFqS6bEcdqVoKBTzyE1Tl_aNWT-NpXgs-k_zs/s5184/I.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigqmivnMaeCRHWn7vvl60D6o57Aj7LCUKLTiKVeW1J-_gmA7Mff4A3iTTj_aaAVd2Qc-NzVTakkYwMJqc55wxbTkMeApbXYiIsFcA7y94yHFvl-TJZNLyFCWLaJJuVjDmwgtfCs74CzKwAQPSWbKYzPIFFqS6bEcdqVoKBTzyE1Tl_aNWT-NpXgs-k_zs/s320/I.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and "water" pouring from her watering can. I like this and would love to have it in my garden. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEN3PIokTHWZ3Bqv1ORJ0acU4Povsix-wWlf6baIujP7iHscQ2a5pwUuw2oFJCWuHduo31H0FfzVhTlcuaQLuz3vpl0U6Hxxskif7nibjWnlC0BTy4elyHp5qrgyBxhFAZrAt4WMPIwtw21mHcHVA008sQ3igdh7ZYCbPVuH1-9_BCqQ7Gvg8t3Px7Ur4/s5184/J.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEN3PIokTHWZ3Bqv1ORJ0acU4Povsix-wWlf6baIujP7iHscQ2a5pwUuw2oFJCWuHduo31H0FfzVhTlcuaQLuz3vpl0U6Hxxskif7nibjWnlC0BTy4elyHp5qrgyBxhFAZrAt4WMPIwtw21mHcHVA008sQ3igdh7ZYCbPVuH1-9_BCqQ7Gvg8t3Px7Ur4/s320/J.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">horse? donkey? it needs a good feed I think, whatever it is. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfKMYWxF14OHXYKGppFsCfvhBzSaAPE4ypt7-zkfjyyfJxhVLiuBZTuizxrI36O9hREACOywSVSW9CcY8fC7PjrLSeNXM8l9TtqUwJ-QStQVmxlPiP3TgQJduUbFjW-oKkyHKP7TFaoo3ZvXlWBRvGW5kzvTgcEW4Rz4Loz-Moe_-As23G_SHsVh7cHrA/s5184/K.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfKMYWxF14OHXYKGppFsCfvhBzSaAPE4ypt7-zkfjyyfJxhVLiuBZTuizxrI36O9hREACOywSVSW9CcY8fC7PjrLSeNXM8l9TtqUwJ-QStQVmxlPiP3TgQJduUbFjW-oKkyHKP7TFaoo3ZvXlWBRvGW5kzvTgcEW4Rz4Loz-Moe_-As23G_SHsVh7cHrA/s320/K.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I like this musician.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCNyU3VUGGmHOByxm3HY_7z2_Q7_woPQksGCHFncQg9pMGNtWK1aeRl3O6lDJ3W8hdPsxz6ueyAqgSFYk7wD5lSOL6zcVwiXQL6iqAOvg1H9EhE3jBakLY_AZWTIGrSponTG9hM54f5RMgaPfx-ZzCm5rjKDNOKJNfP-z5i58gkzP_tXb9XXAdK20a-BU/s5184/L.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCNyU3VUGGmHOByxm3HY_7z2_Q7_woPQksGCHFncQg9pMGNtWK1aeRl3O6lDJ3W8hdPsxz6ueyAqgSFYk7wD5lSOL6zcVwiXQL6iqAOvg1H9EhE3jBakLY_AZWTIGrSponTG9hM54f5RMgaPfx-ZzCm5rjKDNOKJNfP-z5i58gkzP_tXb9XXAdK20a-BU/s320/L.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">surf rescue was there on the sand just in case someone needed help</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRN0H_Kay_q0iM_bVDiGfcUUGWMb9k7LRb9h_t9TjhTxA872is_cE91gspiKtXz9wMcU4K6MvcZqDGZuy0yKLOYhhUtVqHKt05nXctVIs9fRJPbSSGSBWCVMqQteM7Q1f1Fz2nwwS3oADC7JQX4RkBoJuX3HU8U7GmVbG3bg5L69uYYP5qgPbBKeT41mA/s5184/M.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRN0H_Kay_q0iM_bVDiGfcUUGWMb9k7LRb9h_t9TjhTxA872is_cE91gspiKtXz9wMcU4K6MvcZqDGZuy0yKLOYhhUtVqHKt05nXctVIs9fRJPbSSGSBWCVMqQteM7Q1f1Fz2nwwS3oADC7JQX4RkBoJuX3HU8U7GmVbG3bg5L69uYYP5qgPbBKeT41mA/s320/M.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">they have a kayak tied on to the wagon which holds all the supplies and I believe the tent folds onto it as well.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Back at home:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii0n55_EufMuuKgYFmskQZsiWEN7vaqFyxMip5-eHozvdxzAgjAnoqBbVarm115XGgtOHginkyXb55pC5DXOHQyrEAgZy9unp2SOYo6OY9iroXoSaJ2GjsvPUfn93fE0-_3Cm2WvCClkfNgQwp5Tuhj7m2WwPq0HgDf80GZRHpLTORX_Tk1WsR1hfnGqM/s4080/N.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii0n55_EufMuuKgYFmskQZsiWEN7vaqFyxMip5-eHozvdxzAgjAnoqBbVarm115XGgtOHginkyXb55pC5DXOHQyrEAgZy9unp2SOYo6OY9iroXoSaJ2GjsvPUfn93fE0-_3Cm2WvCClkfNgQwp5Tuhj7m2WwPq0HgDf80GZRHpLTORX_Tk1WsR1hfnGqM/s320/N.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Genevieve loves to swing</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgshQLECZOS_OaocikLq6IMdFMbF6v41oDVLe_U-OD6q2PGiRMIUKWOZaM2wHwJkPabA0A89YBBv14dWtdOfvMD6pi2Us-C8U897AX80ZlW9P5Dvro-ozycUkRe1RGrJmZdW8EWgIub_WyL9AHjRtqpJbiLQP67X9fFwWx_fkG72fq031fZpi3xHG2sDWQ/s4080/O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgshQLECZOS_OaocikLq6IMdFMbF6v41oDVLe_U-OD6q2PGiRMIUKWOZaM2wHwJkPabA0A89YBBv14dWtdOfvMD6pi2Us-C8U897AX80ZlW9P5Dvro-ozycUkRe1RGrJmZdW8EWgIub_WyL9AHjRtqpJbiLQP67X9fFwWx_fkG72fq031fZpi3xHG2sDWQ/s320/O.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">while Anastasia prefers climbing up instead of sliding down. She's been a climber since she first found her feet!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-cMHZHKaFe6CdletHUgANBLrM0oqrOv0w_2GMwAfSib0o2gBCJiYfpLK4ZC-oYMzrZf4izpwBJ1U7EAy2zs2nDPkThgkqi7fqqh_e2mVPjsObSx5gkktbWDe-L3nxiffOfQv2C5a4-B4ibwVN4cpbRRWEs413gh2My5zJ78r-YQocdSazFOekc7BTn0/s4032/P.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-cMHZHKaFe6CdletHUgANBLrM0oqrOv0w_2GMwAfSib0o2gBCJiYfpLK4ZC-oYMzrZf4izpwBJ1U7EAy2zs2nDPkThgkqi7fqqh_e2mVPjsObSx5gkktbWDe-L3nxiffOfQv2C5a4-B4ibwVN4cpbRRWEs413gh2My5zJ78r-YQocdSazFOekc7BTn0/s320/P.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">they love trying on Daddy's hats</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifMet7j9kRvTALSn4ERuAgz0Y_UZvcnsGaxhVF0d_SfcckFKdfXDEA-y-Nd67q33alQ6Yg56rhh3Jfpm4gba-I3W-rYDMKPrSdsVo2jojZ3jjHBB4S-PdmLmgAke-TLPwGna2D_uXZLXCpLMAVyNMIqtA16AR2iCYZeNOje2yv-bvLXnXQ-aKcvqgBL5U/s4032/Q.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifMet7j9kRvTALSn4ERuAgz0Y_UZvcnsGaxhVF0d_SfcckFKdfXDEA-y-Nd67q33alQ6Yg56rhh3Jfpm4gba-I3W-rYDMKPrSdsVo2jojZ3jjHBB4S-PdmLmgAke-TLPwGna2D_uXZLXCpLMAVyNMIqtA16AR2iCYZeNOje2yv-bvLXnXQ-aKcvqgBL5U/s320/Q.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and caps</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfTTiEGwwpgkn_OksYH6kaHRNy8uztIju8GZYvkz4vaeKqlddn4e9zCRUD7cT4aTL6MRHLeAbdyoqDJaVIbUDvplwVCcj2mlu5_9f-Y_U_2s_riQSQEmad6LGKmzSBKImHlmA7RiJyRHPhWMrVdUZDd7229NCvAPL7U1Z6xXArfem_p3oarMqwVDtUUjw/s1600/R.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfTTiEGwwpgkn_OksYH6kaHRNy8uztIju8GZYvkz4vaeKqlddn4e9zCRUD7cT4aTL6MRHLeAbdyoqDJaVIbUDvplwVCcj2mlu5_9f-Y_U_2s_riQSQEmad6LGKmzSBKImHlmA7RiJyRHPhWMrVdUZDd7229NCvAPL7U1Z6xXArfem_p3oarMqwVDtUUjw/s320/R.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">they have new shoes</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyhoKhXY8OFBbAyHtPjmbPTeNIF95ZU0erDu0e7SMLc9c90n8-IsbsVyHbYnpse4Y4whQPYpjpqjDc3TKOzKg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and boy do they love them!</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-22759030916952196052024-02-02T01:00:00.001+10:302024-02-02T01:00:00.140+10:30Wednesday's Words on a Friday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHdqk5gfTUmtKOz4hw3-0tOJfJ_LiT4ONHOf3qAqwEacOiUppntqXhyphenhyphenADeRtF6BCiN7iG1A_f-MkJJuJ6iOMMdrpnYjtQT0YdK9fjiRW140TVQu_bpuWA8KWwf0KvdsE7uWUAFoqAyTcOi0QysnJvzPJ7ikay0avy_IBBuOXkB9sDf7_WYWYdW2hDr2E/s320/words2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="320" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHdqk5gfTUmtKOz4hw3-0tOJfJ_LiT4ONHOf3qAqwEacOiUppntqXhyphenhyphenADeRtF6BCiN7iG1A_f-MkJJuJ6iOMMdrpnYjtQT0YdK9fjiRW140TVQu_bpuWA8KWwf0KvdsE7uWUAFoqAyTcOi0QysnJvzPJ7ikay0avy_IBBuOXkB9sDf7_WYWYdW2hDr2E/s1600/words2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This month the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">Elephant's Child</span> and can be found <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com.au">here</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are: </u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">a photo of an old woman </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><u><span style="font-family: arial;">and/or:</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></u></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">1. destined 2. remarkable 3. lure 4. aware 5.rules</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">also including <a href="https://kryderuglen.blogspot.com">Charlotte's</a> colour of the month: <span style="color: #b45f06;">clay brown</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Here is my story:</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Clara adjusted the bright knitted blanket over her knees and leaned her elbows on the windowsill, it wasn't too uncomfortable and she could see the children playing down below more easily. The yard down below was hard packed <span style="color: #b45f06;">clay, brown</span> as a hen's egg, with not a single blade of grass to be seen. She remembered the farm it had once been, she'd been a kitchen maid there, the work was hard and seemingly never ending, beginning with stoking the fires and readying the baking ovens before sunrise and ending with taking the scraps buckets out to the pigs each evening. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZVM6_DZEGJZiGPJKh-5UuaSxbyA6CMy5IHVneO36-rS2ZqLFX7AIUNSh6dFIOC86hk0CM4Bg-XbglNVN8Vlw0sNukDwesY9w3yNBc-z1xklqgl2HMFy47Zt8tT1WhIe4Kz3Kx08VyOERyBzWvPvxcsHL88DIs0S5w8WeXO69vgunqRCnOLPhi2wbhzU/s399/pensive%20woman.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="399" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZVM6_DZEGJZiGPJKh-5UuaSxbyA6CMy5IHVneO36-rS2ZqLFX7AIUNSh6dFIOC86hk0CM4Bg-XbglNVN8Vlw0sNukDwesY9w3yNBc-z1xklqgl2HMFy47Zt8tT1WhIe4Kz3Kx08VyOERyBzWvPvxcsHL88DIs0S5w8WeXO69vgunqRCnOLPhi2wbhzU/s320/pensive%20woman.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>She had eventually married and moved away, well <u>aware</u> of the <u>lure</u> of city life that called to her new husband, he dreamed of owning a store or working in a bank, yet was <u>destined</u> to fail at every venture he tried, with his lack of education and not wanting to be a chimney sweep.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Clara got jobs in kitchens once again and kept food on the table and clothes on their backs until Edward eventually realised the city life was not for them. Back to this small county they came, only to find the big farm they remembered had been sold off sections at a time and a whole big town was now in its place. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The last small block, where the children now played had held the original farmhouse and the for sale sign had a big red "SOLD" sticker across it. It had been bought by the nursing home Clara now lived in and she wondered idly what they would do with it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">She had no knowledge of the <u>rules</u> of development and hoped perhaps it might be made into a small garden where the residents could sit in the sunshine and the children could still come and play. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Clara and Edward had not been blessed with children of their own, but she did love to see them and one small boy in particular remeinded her very much of a younger Edward with his bright copper curls.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Edwards curls were now snow white and Clara thought back over the years thinking how <u>remarkable</u> it was that a worn out couple such as they could still be clinging to life, though Edward was bedbound and she herself got to the window only with the help of her wheelchair.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><p></p>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-91667906187943927262024-01-30T01:00:00.001+10:302024-01-30T01:00:00.239+10:30eek! a mouse!<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Not that I'm afraid of them, I just don't want the little buggers in my house. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I was rummaging around in my pantry looking for something when I shifted a plastic bag of flour and it left a trail. Picked it up and saw a chewed hole, teeny tiny tooth marks in a ragged circle. Serves me right for storing flour in a plastic bag and forgetting about it. For five years.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitM8GaWnDMCZqKrCdln5G2LhEHxA1PPw-bMQUBhZbzQH-z5a_Bk8cjMLuxDiuKg9ZEkoLkecX3v82Q1_kUPqVM6D2Q0qArT4jRXd7qRh4Kvly8J_7SX1Eqc5kIjaDFAXrJScg9iElT6W2U6gX8ZEy0gEKTf26vwW3K86Mn-ZzEZWFhGKLWhXidep_xyxc/s5184/IMG_6108.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitM8GaWnDMCZqKrCdln5G2LhEHxA1PPw-bMQUBhZbzQH-z5a_Bk8cjMLuxDiuKg9ZEkoLkecX3v82Q1_kUPqVM6D2Q0qArT4jRXd7qRh4Kvly8J_7SX1Eqc5kIjaDFAXrJScg9iElT6W2U6gX8ZEy0gEKTf26vwW3K86Mn-ZzEZWFhGKLWhXidep_xyxc/s320/IMG_6108.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This under bench corner cupboard is my pantry.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I tossed out that bag of flour, then set about emptying the whole cupboard onto my kitchen floor. Swept out the line of mouse poop on the top shelf, washed the shelves and went to visit my elderly neighbour while they dried. She'll be 88 this year and hs shrunk six full inches since I saw her last. She's losing weight too. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyway, I got home and started putting things back into the pantry. Well gosh, how long has this been in there? And that! I don't need that if I haven't even looked at it all these years. Into the bin with it. And the other thing, and how old is this bread flour? Out with it! And several other things.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's amazing how much space I have in there now. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkLsvge6fV4Zgwef8YR4ed1Sr1Uk6ZY6pkXNHSKFxRVavR4geUhWrKQM1dytwDrJODYbC0N3mhtTS-sNd8n9yZI519TGIymvR5BlY1SEyeFYlW572fsFvBC5PLOsaXamGdYFHTe9hDBStqRPq_vARJlUT57Aw_ajLDCb_F-TT0jxQurt8Ii8iLL_GDJz8/s5184/IMG_6109.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkLsvge6fV4Zgwef8YR4ed1Sr1Uk6ZY6pkXNHSKFxRVavR4geUhWrKQM1dytwDrJODYbC0N3mhtTS-sNd8n9yZI519TGIymvR5BlY1SEyeFYlW572fsFvBC5PLOsaXamGdYFHTe9hDBStqRPq_vARJlUT57Aw_ajLDCb_F-TT0jxQurt8Ii8iLL_GDJz8/s320/IMG_6109.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here it is all neat and tidy with plenty of empty spaces.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In other news, my beautiful butterfly leadlight lampshade no longer glows with colour.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikp9BJWwb6uEMxv3uSCfuto_94AfCFWxdXn7DSW7KFXKF47es_beh03DmJEOwrSwi_MH9sRw29msqgaPikQnYRtnTamSjRzW5DHx1ZtcWaf0KqNJfDZQLR4iNoGfNE8OWbrAg78OBf404Bi_lXp966jPSNErhsZiZlHc0wwg-_el7B6g6tIPne2QlYxho/s5184/IMG_6111.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikp9BJWwb6uEMxv3uSCfuto_94AfCFWxdXn7DSW7KFXKF47es_beh03DmJEOwrSwi_MH9sRw29msqgaPikQnYRtnTamSjRzW5DHx1ZtcWaf0KqNJfDZQLR4iNoGfNE8OWbrAg78OBf404Bi_lXp966jPSNErhsZiZlHc0wwg-_el7B6g6tIPne2QlYxho/s320/IMG_6111.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The base is an old touch lamp that used to have a smaller shade which got broken in one of my house moves. Well, it's thirty years old now and last week it died. It was fluttering off and on all by itself and then it stayed on even when I touched it to turn off. I had to crawl under the table and pull the plug. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I will keep the shade and eventually get another base for it, something sturdier and with a switch to turn it off and on.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-26851049898718861792024-01-28T01:00:00.001+10:302024-01-28T01:00:00.134+10:30Sunday Selections #673<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nothing rude or vulgar though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme is now continued by <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com.au">Elephant's Child</a> and I join in as do a few others. <a href="https://fromthehighrise.blogspot.com.au">Andrew</a> is one. <a href="https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com">Messymimi</a> is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com">Wisewebwoman</a> has also been joining us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Recently I met up with family members at Brighton Beach></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLC8cPSV9SpqSAsV1gd0cqJVYsRfCgVSM5bHE7TtrfNSrowsaJQT0Z3QvqcrLShsIv-wkfCHT48er9GWzByzJIL1Bhm3z-LkkYRH3GyuWmS5RphKY3LR4aJhw_vhiGCCFSaVm0Bbt4020JLMzD6Xj0CbnC9mJr5aYE1kT0OJuT97DL6B9Ot7VrvNKelU/s5184/A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLC8cPSV9SpqSAsV1gd0cqJVYsRfCgVSM5bHE7TtrfNSrowsaJQT0Z3QvqcrLShsIv-wkfCHT48er9GWzByzJIL1Bhm3z-LkkYRH3GyuWmS5RphKY3LR4aJhw_vhiGCCFSaVm0Bbt4020JLMzD6Xj0CbnC9mJr5aYE1kT0OJuT97DL6B9Ot7VrvNKelU/s320/A.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">where we saw this gorgeous little red car</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl-QTXGbihVnzHn9vvd_opzq-Vzk0PTLYnwbbGb6VES6PLWKUvh3oCLREtPmtJbadFs73088Ivi337Y57hCAN2F4_nC2szRi-NCUVFYRQcZRmaVPkFgc0KpECKvyFGKaya5jjUi6yqZboBRdxPQffWAT6WuhY4jXalWmy19MF4My-eHI3J9RdOZdzFghE/s5184/B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl-QTXGbihVnzHn9vvd_opzq-Vzk0PTLYnwbbGb6VES6PLWKUvh3oCLREtPmtJbadFs73088Ivi337Y57hCAN2F4_nC2szRi-NCUVFYRQcZRmaVPkFgc0KpECKvyFGKaya5jjUi6yqZboBRdxPQffWAT6WuhY4jXalWmy19MF4My-eHI3J9RdOZdzFghE/s320/B.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">walked along the jetty and watched the waves rippling in</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8XyxnMvE5wniwetM6ZeYhFSyBV6_CHfhs37sRp5ymI_jcyNZzAKwtBGlyLu-QUuZi8Ii1D9QAKEM-42M5hyphenhyphenVfclcSJlsuStiHY-f_PcW2GeaKPOnubgGJRGmZYrHDnV62YH-jFMxUmD5DQAssvUvuR48SrQ_H75Lb6r9pemRP230Tl5FRpH15LHourzA/s5184/C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8XyxnMvE5wniwetM6ZeYhFSyBV6_CHfhs37sRp5ymI_jcyNZzAKwtBGlyLu-QUuZi8Ii1D9QAKEM-42M5hyphenhyphenVfclcSJlsuStiHY-f_PcW2GeaKPOnubgGJRGmZYrHDnV62YH-jFMxUmD5DQAssvUvuR48SrQ_H75Lb6r9pemRP230Tl5FRpH15LHourzA/s320/C.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">marvelled at the changing colours</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1zuFFEsSxMUILm3EkndxgibxdoBaOH7VavgsOXwx_M98UhZmDNOE_GmFr_4u0u_MdTa797B-tGMyI80Odtdox7IzYxkRzmgUzCFCL9k9h5CHiqnHZCy4O5KTn4DD76BTxJW1sfzmEw4pX_3bzoLIuVSj9Me3kROk9HSa3CRhB71SF-tNro3fX5kojp0Y/s5184/D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1zuFFEsSxMUILm3EkndxgibxdoBaOH7VavgsOXwx_M98UhZmDNOE_GmFr_4u0u_MdTa797B-tGMyI80Odtdox7IzYxkRzmgUzCFCL9k9h5CHiqnHZCy4O5KTn4DD76BTxJW1sfzmEw4pX_3bzoLIuVSj9Me3kROk9HSa3CRhB71SF-tNro3fX5kojp0Y/s320/D.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">according to water depth and sun angles</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYtL2lpzyJfVA5qs0NqtEZ9PCSv3twtuiRd-oNG-HB1ONPJQXTFlbojgd_9qHUcPBXepBcsVp5hlB4FJcH6VyGXoaGPW4SsmAC_8K5kAG9krgNeum4lI6E0hBpGJV_Jqt2mox354tVhPY8RZhLAQdpiXqw9ps12n703B09YqkDSqwNRketO_WYQpgvDR8/s5184/E.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYtL2lpzyJfVA5qs0NqtEZ9PCSv3twtuiRd-oNG-HB1ONPJQXTFlbojgd_9qHUcPBXepBcsVp5hlB4FJcH6VyGXoaGPW4SsmAC_8K5kAG9krgNeum4lI6E0hBpGJV_Jqt2mox354tVhPY8RZhLAQdpiXqw9ps12n703B09YqkDSqwNRketO_WYQpgvDR8/s320/E.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">imagined living in one of these homes</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTo_i78HuVQurzf8pgDF55Xqfskx3pSywMdJSxQO9wAIq37ArWGM53pdbFcfjycgXeRWDeZb3HYenPA78nK2oFqDSUqABDpzbvVSPaESFRBsbzz8-rdQSBcE84jQJhzkrOwSDLHU9z-X4a6NwJ35lvPT0xBD5i5eSCzFil_uD-1d1Lf7H7SgLPssD1pjc/s5184/F.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTo_i78HuVQurzf8pgDF55Xqfskx3pSywMdJSxQO9wAIq37ArWGM53pdbFcfjycgXeRWDeZb3HYenPA78nK2oFqDSUqABDpzbvVSPaESFRBsbzz8-rdQSBcE84jQJhzkrOwSDLHU9z-X4a6NwJ35lvPT0xBD5i5eSCzFil_uD-1d1Lf7H7SgLPssD1pjc/s320/F.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">or even way out on the bluff, if I am correct that is way down where Marino begins, that's where the boardwalk is that I keep meaning to get down to again.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRnvVoMR_fJ2IlLZYManYq5FsELp12VGYa9HUgZ-CwbJzUZU7jGAjnmYBStRMiJ55Z3UDy7wz0bB-qhI3tpQQdv2k0_VEF-f8918p6H3hNcA8R8JE7IK9wEguN5-591XsUBZLiMx7xf2MrLEPODo1AW9J8BlTYi-O1PTTmcmD0R4XcIOt9T3dyFVZauw/s5184/G.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRnvVoMR_fJ2IlLZYManYq5FsELp12VGYa9HUgZ-CwbJzUZU7jGAjnmYBStRMiJ55Z3UDy7wz0bB-qhI3tpQQdv2k0_VEF-f8918p6H3hNcA8R8JE7IK9wEguN5-591XsUBZLiMx7xf2MrLEPODo1AW9J8BlTYi-O1PTTmcmD0R4XcIOt9T3dyFVZauw/s320/G.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">we saw this drawn onto the sand, it reads "ABIGAIL WILL YOU MARRY ME?" and right after I took the photo someone walked through it dragging a thick tyred beach wagon until his wife noticed and called him off to the side. (she said yes)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ytBSFqvPYFXSa_w6E6cW-4Z394AOxNTr1AAKKcg8Gw0977LZpBoLEkl5vL1pT735L_wdchuQCuZNjUHs6uA1SaldHzqfWJrc4iX1iksNexr7bESSGG9msrk7OLZLus1117TkKurRlRSr_KyHwKQKqySmRA5tso5AJI_jKeLjRMMaHt_k5Rkf7YHVOJI/s5184/H.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ytBSFqvPYFXSa_w6E6cW-4Z394AOxNTr1AAKKcg8Gw0977LZpBoLEkl5vL1pT735L_wdchuQCuZNjUHs6uA1SaldHzqfWJrc4iX1iksNexr7bESSGG9msrk7OLZLus1117TkKurRlRSr_KyHwKQKqySmRA5tso5AJI_jKeLjRMMaHt_k5Rkf7YHVOJI/s320/H.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the real reason for going to Brighton was to see the new Sculptures, literally hundreds of them along a stretch about a kilometre. I loved the mother and child dolphins</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikwbaVSTPAFia7O25HWyy8s_M24ovnP-2cOM9CbLXg8aPgHvcm9dbjqHEMvJks9vZbcCecbKKOH5oQF3adL2z3YPDVpX0oBIUMZ99BXfd4earBK2LPZe2PPQ6CT4SCWizlLh5a2V407emAFWPmYToyeRzdXoOC5VZT_T36GJzWfFJ0xEPnoRk9q0C-c6c/s5184/I.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikwbaVSTPAFia7O25HWyy8s_M24ovnP-2cOM9CbLXg8aPgHvcm9dbjqHEMvJks9vZbcCecbKKOH5oQF3adL2z3YPDVpX0oBIUMZ99BXfd4earBK2LPZe2PPQ6CT4SCWizlLh5a2V407emAFWPmYToyeRzdXoOC5VZT_T36GJzWfFJ0xEPnoRk9q0C-c6c/s320/I.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the bench seat with pelican sides</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1Nm9VXvGWqNPsJcrkxL5QNG38igxFdL-aCxUccuCt_3MENt0H_S01WrTbwRHJPC1ksDvZYqBTvFTpOBbLYGsl9pnJhMffNqiKjB7HjzYykyDsGLG2NrbcgrnHL-ZJucjFhR4qDytkEvqvxa-Nh1Vic1o2sAIyiPNwPbFQf2lYWBxl6scZD4mRRmTQKI/s5184/J.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1Nm9VXvGWqNPsJcrkxL5QNG38igxFdL-aCxUccuCt_3MENt0H_S01WrTbwRHJPC1ksDvZYqBTvFTpOBbLYGsl9pnJhMffNqiKjB7HjzYykyDsGLG2NrbcgrnHL-ZJucjFhR4qDytkEvqvxa-Nh1Vic1o2sAIyiPNwPbFQf2lYWBxl6scZD4mRRmTQKI/s320/J.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"the couple"</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie9YOsB-0j6zLP4U-49Crxk9CJ6Hm-3wj8Kp4JqXqaAYlzr3Oas04eUV0U7z3Ff-BiegZoYffmgJqBfitNPJom15XpV5Gy7HYuuKXUHGMdRqfJ4RIvx29lKbPB89uYTT1j1LzHRDN2QaA1ybvzpdiA7znUsx0E-pKhjoAl-1HoRWJfrxhD5EodTssYKtY/s5184/K.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie9YOsB-0j6zLP4U-49Crxk9CJ6Hm-3wj8Kp4JqXqaAYlzr3Oas04eUV0U7z3Ff-BiegZoYffmgJqBfitNPJom15XpV5Gy7HYuuKXUHGMdRqfJ4RIvx29lKbPB89uYTT1j1LzHRDN2QaA1ybvzpdiA7znUsx0E-pKhjoAl-1HoRWJfrxhD5EodTssYKtY/s320/K.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">he had a bow tie and she had a flower brooch</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghui-LQvPT24gKyLmTRkaxhOFDLS4ctdx8LlH_0MfYMt0u6jpaUDo_LeVQ2F1R7BPo210UxM7t7cq2MiwB4BbX4H4FY03uXiaMjI2fplBFnTVmpniJUWLuUrJhanfTyvr2aMfYk0S3WwV-cWK5YzCF4h966klvFwsaEUJl43TyzMtOtK1UgLPSfU0MsWc/s5184/L.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghui-LQvPT24gKyLmTRkaxhOFDLS4ctdx8LlH_0MfYMt0u6jpaUDo_LeVQ2F1R7BPo210UxM7t7cq2MiwB4BbX4H4FY03uXiaMjI2fplBFnTVmpniJUWLuUrJhanfTyvr2aMfYk0S3WwV-cWK5YzCF4h966klvFwsaEUJl43TyzMtOtK1UgLPSfU0MsWc/s320/L.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the eagle</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6qafh_F7jH2ArK5GZoQxArOLuM5SqRSnSer6FYYZsFs896SEcSFTwqCIJcRN6aGEZye6Vs5UF301hK7e44XO6RprZTnhx_kHcrk4veUIZ5_luN_QqMqYxZL7FbajUPSMHDBjZ6qRRLlRNWffLYNLJnXCL4avCXXsSpvnWmCXQQzulAC8D5aZcVvXror4/s5184/M.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6qafh_F7jH2ArK5GZoQxArOLuM5SqRSnSer6FYYZsFs896SEcSFTwqCIJcRN6aGEZye6Vs5UF301hK7e44XO6RprZTnhx_kHcrk4veUIZ5_luN_QqMqYxZL7FbajUPSMHDBjZ6qRRLlRNWffLYNLJnXCL4avCXXsSpvnWmCXQQzulAC8D5aZcVvXror4/s320/M.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">with his strong talons</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVu0x6Noc_BQ1fOBLwSN4zuUxUs8x-wriMsE_LZNpX_29uvViwVgFTYPwvXhEhU6oV8IZnFS7eXu4hzzFdG2aRyBbLcStORRPJYbgHeSifzZ-8_QemJlPGn2fHmJ6r6-cPWiC1huUMrim2VtXnccrhSb_Zo0yqNzkbTsiDKGJeHOzUntHflhsfA0Sd7M/s5184/N.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVu0x6Noc_BQ1fOBLwSN4zuUxUs8x-wriMsE_LZNpX_29uvViwVgFTYPwvXhEhU6oV8IZnFS7eXu4hzzFdG2aRyBbLcStORRPJYbgHeSifzZ-8_QemJlPGn2fHmJ6r6-cPWiC1huUMrim2VtXnccrhSb_Zo0yqNzkbTsiDKGJeHOzUntHflhsfA0Sd7M/s320/N.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this one is not new and has been here as long as I remember, right beside the jetty</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhweepbIUPPKiij7dQW2G7LICy3g1YRPVTcRkZvPUxOukooDNPcved-CmwUlSVQM9s2QEImQtyzJqklDQTqvy0FN6EnDjmEF3blUFH8vtvRdi0zI8C172ABYXvoLTZtoHP5Q__ZEaZ7z2nwPZXd96Jbhqnf8zzSahTqrv89sYbx4lq8Dcp8IWN_gF-y8lQ/s5184/O.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhweepbIUPPKiij7dQW2G7LICy3g1YRPVTcRkZvPUxOukooDNPcved-CmwUlSVQM9s2QEImQtyzJqklDQTqvy0FN6EnDjmEF3blUFH8vtvRdi0zI8C172ABYXvoLTZtoHP5Q__ZEaZ7z2nwPZXd96Jbhqnf8zzSahTqrv89sYbx4lq8Dcp8IWN_gF-y8lQ/s320/O.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this colourful bird is on a lawned section near a playground</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUe8PGeOXvphJNhYJzK5gGxQ1x4unuBI_sM-Lb0prs4gNzyhk7RjchScRhXx24ycIUnO3KA1sbcC3eY1fYY2rukSn008vntu3n7aDAcOo2xsahGfzrUtFHnOR78FLZsXzJWAXH31g5PaNbKmjLPbTTCKIyg51hOqIXCE3wfrL5GAWjx73ukrIiTudNFMc/s3888/P.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUe8PGeOXvphJNhYJzK5gGxQ1x4unuBI_sM-Lb0prs4gNzyhk7RjchScRhXx24ycIUnO3KA1sbcC3eY1fYY2rukSn008vntu3n7aDAcOo2xsahGfzrUtFHnOR78FLZsXzJWAXH31g5PaNbKmjLPbTTCKIyg51hOqIXCE3wfrL5GAWjx73ukrIiTudNFMc/s320/P.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">where we let the girls loose from their pram, they loved this little seesaw.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XpP44VqomavQHCYr_be8CITWrzKaMbGbI-PKx0JwC8czeiC2v9QRgEZypuB1PRKV0BBsxWnlLV3xaBWiO5MPtWNuXFuRTif5w8VAbXJhzjAqYQKH_Bb1zvA2VmdMEu1fdZbuGYY6XfrDn6HPv3S-S4y57sxOu00OD_5s7f1EPgC8jSDe5wVJBYDn2Q0/s5184/Q.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XpP44VqomavQHCYr_be8CITWrzKaMbGbI-PKx0JwC8czeiC2v9QRgEZypuB1PRKV0BBsxWnlLV3xaBWiO5MPtWNuXFuRTif5w8VAbXJhzjAqYQKH_Bb1zvA2VmdMEu1fdZbuGYY6XfrDn6HPv3S-S4y57sxOu00OD_5s7f1EPgC8jSDe5wVJBYDn2Q0/s320/Q.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">as soon as they were unbuckled, Gen took off running, with me following close to steer her away from several dangerous items, "no-one" had Ana with her by the slippery dip (slide)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx8eddT4aGe1xOGoGcbG4Bh2ndaRucbZcur2NL2DPT_8LKE6wxJ9gxydNA_1mfmqEwthRjmUXtpKfNvnqv8HMPzXfWo9GCF0yYrQziANUNKeJ1YtmajL2JCeew8g_hd_DoS6qje5q5XsCPGQ-xCOMxIQvt92FfOsTJnaiw5kD8kJbBwv8N_1ZrnQIorus/s5184/R.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx8eddT4aGe1xOGoGcbG4Bh2ndaRucbZcur2NL2DPT_8LKE6wxJ9gxydNA_1mfmqEwthRjmUXtpKfNvnqv8HMPzXfWo9GCF0yYrQziANUNKeJ1YtmajL2JCeew8g_hd_DoS6qje5q5XsCPGQ-xCOMxIQvt92FfOsTJnaiw5kD8kJbBwv8N_1ZrnQIorus/s320/R.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">here daddy J helps Gen walk down the ramp</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtItyY_CchbBaTNyyPT7V78mJsRGoWowZ1NZGxfCccVOdPDHwBRLCB2NpXY_xJ1wl6OsOPyvAqkQ1QW45NrS5WOzJOUNY2MSBd6cQeHRrAG67_NnGv0a_IlaWQxyxMCRKx5UpHnXyPjKaNR_sjh6UFh47POzJUQ7i6-nThCkhcBjHE8bsNCez7EMxoFsA/s5184/S.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtItyY_CchbBaTNyyPT7V78mJsRGoWowZ1NZGxfCccVOdPDHwBRLCB2NpXY_xJ1wl6OsOPyvAqkQ1QW45NrS5WOzJOUNY2MSBd6cQeHRrAG67_NnGv0a_IlaWQxyxMCRKx5UpHnXyPjKaNR_sjh6UFh47POzJUQ7i6-nThCkhcBjHE8bsNCez7EMxoFsA/s320/S.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">they finally got tired enough to sit still and eat some lunch, then we headed back to the bus stop.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-3136882309733437712024-01-26T01:00:00.001+10:302024-01-26T01:00:00.123+10:30Wednesday's Words on a Friday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqxnU3Q5Cd8t4pMt69gOFCWtgkqPL6yYyftzHJ3ZJH-wuIdZknr5nDQZfn_Wq_QUShTFb5nLYkYkyNo_Z3OXHfigozSEi8Fkq79C2keqQCmpnWDwmEqMqRehpsyz_JZuC7HK9qOWgEkVI4KEZSS6YQQmltgblxi6i4l2i1bTB4GydXP_Pxws-S-IE9_3Y/s320/Words%2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="320" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqxnU3Q5Cd8t4pMt69gOFCWtgkqPL6yYyftzHJ3ZJH-wuIdZknr5nDQZfn_Wq_QUShTFb5nLYkYkyNo_Z3OXHfigozSEi8Fkq79C2keqQCmpnWDwmEqMqRehpsyz_JZuC7HK9qOWgEkVI4KEZSS6YQQmltgblxi6i4l2i1bTB4GydXP_Pxws-S-IE9_3Y/s1600/Words%2010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This month the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">Elephant's Child</span> and can be found <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com.au">here</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. camel 2. bone 3. carving 4. application 5. river </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>and/or: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. journey 2. shock 3. family 4. crown 5. colours</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://krydderuglen.blogspot.com">Charlotte's</a> colour of the month is <span style="color: #b45f06;">Clay Brown</span> , but I didn't manage to fit that in this week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Here is my story:</u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I had my job
<u>application</u> forms filled out and in envelopes ready to be posted the day we got
back from our holiday, but for now, Chris and I were busy packing, repacking
and re-re-packing as we tried to fit only the absolute essentials into the
spaces delegated to us by Dad in his new RV motor home. We would be living in
it for three months so I considered a good supply of batteries an essential,
until Dad reminded me most of our things charged off USB cords, so I ditched
the batteries idea and packed extra socks in their place. Mum and Dad were both
taking their long-service leave and we were about to embark on a long, long
<u>journey</u> around half of Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Beginning in Adelaide,
we planned to drive across the Nullarbor to Perth, then follow the coast line
up to Broome, or maybe a bit further to Derby, depending on the available roads,
and then cut across to Darwin, where we would stay a few days with Dad’s Aunty
so Mum could restock the dried goods and cans of soups, before we headed down
through the Red Centre and back to Adelaide, with a two day stop in Alice
Springs along the way. Our Uncle Simon, for whom I’d been named worked in the
Casino there. We hadn’t seen him since I was five! He’d get a <u>shock</u> seeing how
tall I’d grown since then. At six feet I was now taller than anyone else in the
<u>family</u>. I was pretty sure Christopher would catch up to me soon though. Mum
wanted sunset photos of Uluru, the jewel in the <u>crown</u> that is Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dad said our first stop
after Perth would be the wildflower areas of Western Australia, Mum wanted to
take plenty of photos, she’d heard the <u>colours</u> were amazing and wanted to try
her hand at painting them after we got home again. We finally had everything organized
in the RV, said good bye to our neighbours who would water the garden for us
and headed to the nearest Service Station to fill up the tanks. Filling up the tanks
would take up a fair sized portion of our holiday as we soon found out, since
Mum would worry that they’d be empty just when we were in the middle of nowhere,
so Dad had to stop a few more times than he would have if driving alone. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Christopher and I had
long passed the bickering teenage years and were now firm friends at 19 and 17.
He did continue to tease me about Joanne though. The driving part of the trip
got to be boring after a while, so on straight stretches of road Dad would let
Chris and me take turns driving for a short while. He said learning to handle a
“big rig” would come in handy one day, while Mum sat in the back and pretended
not to worry. Mum was keen to stay overnight at licensed caravan parks the
whole way, but Dad insisted a few nights here and there out in the wild would
be good for us, and he was right! Somewhere in the Pilbara area, or close to
it, we chanced upon a <u>river</u> bed. With trees either side of it Dad said there
surely must be water and drove towards it. We parked on a big flat area and
walked to the banks of the river where we found it to be dry as a bone. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Not only dry, but there
were bones in it! Mum was despairing at the lack of water, though we had plenty
in the RV and out from the shadow of a tree stepped an old man, so darkly
coloured we hadn’t noticed him. “G’day” he said, “you lookin’ for water?” “We
did hope there might be some,” said Dad, “ because of the trees, they need
water right?” The old man said, “water here but not close, come to the rocky
part and I show it to you.” We followed him along the river bed until it became
more rocky then he stopped and gave us each a digging stick. “Now you dig,” he
said. “dig deep, then wait,” he said. He began and we copied and when each hole
was about a foot deep we rested and were amazed at the water seeping into the
holes. “Not drink right away,” said the old man, who told us a white man had
named him Jacko, many years ago. “Let the water settle or you be drinking sand!”
he cackled quite loudly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We managed to get a
conversation going and learned the bones in the riverbed were from a <u>camel</u> that
had been butchered and eaten quite some time ago, the carcass had been left for
the ants and dingoes to clean up and now the bones were ready, he said. “Ready
for what?” asked Mum. “We carve them and make things we need,” said Jacko, “or
just pretty things for the girls in the tribe. Not many girls left now, they go
to the stations and learn with the station kids from School of the Air, then
sometimes they go to towns and get proper jobs. The boys too, not many want to
learn the <u>bone</u> <u>carving</u> anymore. They want the money and the modern things.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-38020802450018884502024-01-23T01:00:00.001+10:302024-01-23T01:00:00.133+10:30Are we readers or are we writers?<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>I wrote this many years ago and think it deserves another airing: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">books, reading, writing</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the words are on pages, visual, tactile.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">descriptions, emotions, drama, happiness, passion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">sublime blissfulness plummeting into despair.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the wanting, the needing of a certain someone, without whom you will be forever empty.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">actions taken, roads not travelled.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">stories woven into tales of unexpected happenings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">each open to personal interpretation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">new beginnings, sad endings, happy endings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">confrontations, welcomed or not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">challenging adversities; drifting on seas of contentment.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">gazing into the eyes of a newborn.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">days, nights, or both, when that newborn will cry as if heartbroken and you won't know why, your own eyes will spill with tears, your own heart will break, until finally you both sleep, the deep sleep of exhaustion from which both of you will wake refreshed and ready to start again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">there are words of lives lived; real or imagined?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">fiction based on truth? biography? fantasy?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">we'll never really know, with the author perhaps unavailable to tell us one way or the other.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the lure of the words, the writing of the pages. falling into the story.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">escaping, however briefly, from our own reality.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this is what makes an author, and this is why writing will never cease, as long as mankind has readers, because surely, eventually, a reader will write and the cycle will continue.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">casual readers of fiction, others thirsty for knowledge, still others voraciously devouring book after book.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">we think we are all readers. we don't "have a book in us", we don't have "a story that must be told", for we are 'only' readers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">yet here we are, on the internet, on blog pages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">writing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">for readers.</span></p>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-65025899896332059092024-01-21T01:00:00.001+10:302024-01-21T01:00:00.135+10:30Sunday Selections #672<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nothing rude or vulgar though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme is now continued by <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com.au">Elephant's Child</a> and I join in as do a few others. <a href="https://fromthehighrise.blogspot.com.au">Andrew</a> is one. <a href="https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com">Messymimi</a> is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com">Wisewebwoman</a> has also been joining us.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIRDExNpl_U5UebN2eSYHUXhqhKnZEYSulFvO-yv2hEYUOlVHQLCMNMwROnF3nzCF-4ruDhE_UqeaYif08ghdljjyeE98FwqScKqYNMCWsZQf20AbZan5vdU-MdLmk1NchujkV8Z_Gol9HQuVQkseml2lxltgQ-FxKPZFOH9EttmMt6FSor7kXCVSQG0/s4032/A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIRDExNpl_U5UebN2eSYHUXhqhKnZEYSulFvO-yv2hEYUOlVHQLCMNMwROnF3nzCF-4ruDhE_UqeaYif08ghdljjyeE98FwqScKqYNMCWsZQf20AbZan5vdU-MdLmk1NchujkV8Z_Gol9HQuVQkseml2lxltgQ-FxKPZFOH9EttmMt6FSor7kXCVSQG0/s320/A.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">some fast moving clouds while waiting for a bus recently</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYPYu1onSNVolfve5GIj2JOeVtMVODDKsXAVZzxSHAtpVhdyil-b1KQzj9DEgcut8k_Hi97vxSGtpZceJPJO_wjZF2_pkV-qkyr9Jh9ltbwOOR5odpoR9aQBM1vhjyAYbttbvtlP26_3lO6nWq1jhNVbSiTlmIZGfpU0tDxuCGpZPdBdYFNY5bSKNtVQ/s4032/B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYPYu1onSNVolfve5GIj2JOeVtMVODDKsXAVZzxSHAtpVhdyil-b1KQzj9DEgcut8k_Hi97vxSGtpZceJPJO_wjZF2_pkV-qkyr9Jh9ltbwOOR5odpoR9aQBM1vhjyAYbttbvtlP26_3lO6nWq1jhNVbSiTlmIZGfpU0tDxuCGpZPdBdYFNY5bSKNtVQ/s320/B.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and further east the sun peeking through a tree</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhroPRejMr5gbfe51fTPj5hVsaH_Ub4zfqkYcYT57tojIwmYF87-_ZAh7Vsesh4mfUeTi9COgWRzeOsxoJPUyiHPQgEJJ5-Zqcqa_fllWjaBIARm97x0WNP31JDJD8CB-9vnJN_JgTKBmecfFCnvGJ9-qX64ZdGv2xcWsmkmL0VhMz-lN_YBC_vQDa4EHo/s4032/C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhroPRejMr5gbfe51fTPj5hVsaH_Ub4zfqkYcYT57tojIwmYF87-_ZAh7Vsesh4mfUeTi9COgWRzeOsxoJPUyiHPQgEJJ5-Zqcqa_fllWjaBIARm97x0WNP31JDJD8CB-9vnJN_JgTKBmecfFCnvGJ9-qX64ZdGv2xcWsmkmL0VhMz-lN_YBC_vQDa4EHo/s320/C.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Lola doing what she does best</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwyrXIKPaHDDDsyil9q0nfdg0TpytNaGkAwHXCoFZdOY7kAXf86TYys-T5kW4CGImF9ESBnw1VnASipdr72WwE4VCziULutsIjKx1cagXobW9dnq5XdsGyYLFLp3vPFfBgahVKcbn7ngSNSSjra39wFp74B0Q52vgEFhrY1cuVys8vb2CJuzlj2McW8y4/s5184/D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwyrXIKPaHDDDsyil9q0nfdg0TpytNaGkAwHXCoFZdOY7kAXf86TYys-T5kW4CGImF9ESBnw1VnASipdr72WwE4VCziULutsIjKx1cagXobW9dnq5XdsGyYLFLp3vPFfBgahVKcbn7ngSNSSjra39wFp74B0Q52vgEFhrY1cuVys8vb2CJuzlj2McW8y4/s320/D.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This is a council truck cutting down a tree branch that was hanging on the electrical wires - at 11.40pm!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKqnjcgC6OJ-5d5MK2FzRmGruj5jwtnC1ReqOJwiSChqs2kfhVNKaeLm_MO598qWQABCWaUlIj4_6gTqAbhRpAmqM2vD67S8AI3bv84R8fYi9XcPakj_K3uMPZFiSIF6LsCBeI0ZfPMQWK42neL5SIBsi9GI7zzolPpbATW7XtbM0_1pdQSlKSafq0Ug/s5184/E.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKqnjcgC6OJ-5d5MK2FzRmGruj5jwtnC1ReqOJwiSChqs2kfhVNKaeLm_MO598qWQABCWaUlIj4_6gTqAbhRpAmqM2vD67S8AI3bv84R8fYi9XcPakj_K3uMPZFiSIF6LsCBeI0ZfPMQWK42neL5SIBsi9GI7zzolPpbATW7XtbM0_1pdQSlKSafq0Ug/s320/E.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the old white willow out the front had begun splitting some time ago</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwvfHHelCAKLlBanOfJWZP0P1eeF3Vk-X9kRApYWFH_47ja27GtzsXvs5dFgkc1R7MWIlMX9atYrtHFSR7rkIA9Tq0fGC_8rAwhCTTeA9tzmnh-RSaY3KcGddo3EzXq-yvFcOV8gBO1Rt9smSio3SyXjCBsvRLCcTZqoeWGfXd0tBhEw6vG0upxlSbRE/s5184/F.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwvfHHelCAKLlBanOfJWZP0P1eeF3Vk-X9kRApYWFH_47ja27GtzsXvs5dFgkc1R7MWIlMX9atYrtHFSR7rkIA9Tq0fGC_8rAwhCTTeA9tzmnh-RSaY3KcGddo3EzXq-yvFcOV8gBO1Rt9smSio3SyXjCBsvRLCcTZqoeWGfXd0tBhEw6vG0upxlSbRE/s320/F.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and split much further during the last wind storms we had</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVF8Nr0y_BjjHytqUGUiSqaR8bhKyoxGjlOtpSu8JInEmHs98X4lr_Fb9mnMeFJQoo8gugHhTRegQE_HostdQoOYlRV0se6fWtUD-aFHJFwiFnb48J6WRDGuKRJm9g-MeqWwQu7vtr-wARLCjAmwEFzfhE_MiQOgOerslBK-9Tevc9vqNw-4I1LKmptlQ/s5184/F1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVF8Nr0y_BjjHytqUGUiSqaR8bhKyoxGjlOtpSu8JInEmHs98X4lr_Fb9mnMeFJQoo8gugHhTRegQE_HostdQoOYlRV0se6fWtUD-aFHJFwiFnb48J6WRDGuKRJm9g-MeqWwQu7vtr-wARLCjAmwEFzfhE_MiQOgOerslBK-9Tevc9vqNw-4I1LKmptlQ/s320/F1.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">we woke up Tuesday morning to find the lower section hanging less than a metre from the ground</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_kUQRMnZ500_3n81_N3D15EbE6vLW5KOYfC-WuOSjJeXwxQIL1kI9-p_Oy_4gEsazUZ8a7zlIzUsTLmHnkT_xFpnLRfER0O97yXHnxH8fs0NQY0FYW3g8yAst3rG_5U5wecN27jmZ96wLQ49Yvi3r3gvX3HbSnp_JDaThJQDfsq4UlilRrZva-canKx0/s5184/F2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_kUQRMnZ500_3n81_N3D15EbE6vLW5KOYfC-WuOSjJeXwxQIL1kI9-p_Oy_4gEsazUZ8a7zlIzUsTLmHnkT_xFpnLRfER0O97yXHnxH8fs0NQY0FYW3g8yAst3rG_5U5wecN27jmZ96wLQ49Yvi3r3gvX3HbSnp_JDaThJQDfsq4UlilRrZva-canKx0/s320/F2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">while the top of the branch was hung up on the wires, you can see how the one wire is being pulled downward, so Housing was called and gave their standard answer "we'll send someone out in 7-10 days"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Not good enough decided C and me, C phoned the local council who said they'd send someone first thing in the morning. Well, as you saw in an earlier picture, they didn't wait until morning, arriving and making quite a bit of noise very late that same night.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLCvkX_LOEhhSj1pbLmO8mh3qT6xyM4PI6ItQ9uzxPTxnRo-Zu2VQ8SviaDZnCSzb3M9zwa7-lu7Kp80JvKtTUnExW4BXgYKcdNVTIv1B45UjyJup0nISKdh1p4F13E_L6Y6POt4hEaDTA34ozlsLNiH92H_jpe_GSwz-ewYPsZJAKIFJaDv7MNPzZ4bE/s5184/G.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLCvkX_LOEhhSj1pbLmO8mh3qT6xyM4PI6ItQ9uzxPTxnRo-Zu2VQ8SviaDZnCSzb3M9zwa7-lu7Kp80JvKtTUnExW4BXgYKcdNVTIv1B45UjyJup0nISKdh1p4F13E_L6Y6POt4hEaDTA34ozlsLNiH92H_jpe_GSwz-ewYPsZJAKIFJaDv7MNPzZ4bE/s320/G.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this is what we saw the next morning, branch on the ground and the electric wires all still safely attached to the pole.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCbGrBbVK-RmgEqNAfTMIOlFHlf29hoM8IvSYJfPVQ7aN5QupA0gkL6qkeaOd_IrcnDpvdmSVHP2kbrJ1rgza9Cci_UTD2YbYWjpMNC8pt2CbBsVp6r0XIn3Lhiz4pOeyU7VA9A-t9bAFwism9cYs19F7i6p4_19fMKLdUu_l5i858OF7-koerr4ewv8g/s5184/H.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCbGrBbVK-RmgEqNAfTMIOlFHlf29hoM8IvSYJfPVQ7aN5QupA0gkL6qkeaOd_IrcnDpvdmSVHP2kbrJ1rgza9Cci_UTD2YbYWjpMNC8pt2CbBsVp6r0XIn3Lhiz4pOeyU7VA9A-t9bAFwism9cYs19F7i6p4_19fMKLdUu_l5i858OF7-koerr4ewv8g/s320/H.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">waiting for the chainsaw and wood chipper to arrive.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZmFO67w_KmN1NSaxL7hmwS2sz0iWxX2l9_L61dDrS8n-pk0BzTcC41rgkSEjtmgR5o-6ktm3hCxYQ5xvE8flcXUNH1auMQENvm9YQIMh4GCKtbbgIRPRJw3g2kN7km3XGbb1yO2_NckPkrbZFdQR6E28c6u8Ix7vJ3Zbys9xS9JWTmWXErIGFFQbQSA/s5184/I.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZmFO67w_KmN1NSaxL7hmwS2sz0iWxX2l9_L61dDrS8n-pk0BzTcC41rgkSEjtmgR5o-6ktm3hCxYQ5xvE8flcXUNH1auMQENvm9YQIMh4GCKtbbgIRPRJw3g2kN7km3XGbb1yO2_NckPkrbZFdQR6E28c6u8Ix7vJ3Zbys9xS9JWTmWXErIGFFQbQSA/s320/I.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">this is where the branch broke away from the tree</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpC69aKqY-qZZ-npMA0h_7zIVkPVswDp6o5136F3dEXPNnINpmFlLaTe2BTzZq7lpnWa2rtg66ywUoltwU7NQs2uwWsn5vym7mn9_-4cs981AdIHF9YAwQ8fSKagj6hEvA_IoqIwvbYndJSkUZE3bRfROnkCNuhZEFEjXyb22SX846VJ-EUAOl8103PiI/s5184/J.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpC69aKqY-qZZ-npMA0h_7zIVkPVswDp6o5136F3dEXPNnINpmFlLaTe2BTzZq7lpnWa2rtg66ywUoltwU7NQs2uwWsn5vym7mn9_-4cs981AdIHF9YAwQ8fSKagj6hEvA_IoqIwvbYndJSkUZE3bRfROnkCNuhZEFEjXyb22SX846VJ-EUAOl8103PiI/s320/J.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr Gnome now has a new bright blue coat</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieVRcOqaZaL_q4fHE_-Dg2GVbTbmzUEawMFqgeK2y5ShEYxz4Jdv-wPMtfIFnJi1yTWxfYS1lXv6fZYYDgvC4yHBFRLk_-h6Qef3MafMljAmBq4jkb0MbWUQfHr6Bg-I7sfB5Eoyc1Th1BSHeAcRXiRiQfTVWzqXr2XWrfJgl_TcfApEgww2vI-PGKin4/s5184/K.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieVRcOqaZaL_q4fHE_-Dg2GVbTbmzUEawMFqgeK2y5ShEYxz4Jdv-wPMtfIFnJi1yTWxfYS1lXv6fZYYDgvC4yHBFRLk_-h6Qef3MafMljAmBq4jkb0MbWUQfHr6Bg-I7sfB5Eoyc1Th1BSHeAcRXiRiQfTVWzqXr2XWrfJgl_TcfApEgww2vI-PGKin4/s320/K.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and darker blue pants</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnoloDthctmaQoTk_p5p4dpCgYrpkEs9sLpGdKlg2VtTIEWX5hd5brYn-fVNrW7G0VVsC2i4x9LhyphenhyphenRB398KDG1PcQlYuRiUCoV_I1ORSG54_PUTqfBVkbnJF2YuDeRXj9QnIbxnFJGdZxN632np87vVfsdNxZm2018SA9RSDPYrPJP_0aRw_JEqJisP_A/s5184/L.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnoloDthctmaQoTk_p5p4dpCgYrpkEs9sLpGdKlg2VtTIEWX5hd5brYn-fVNrW7G0VVsC2i4x9LhyphenhyphenRB398KDG1PcQlYuRiUCoV_I1ORSG54_PUTqfBVkbnJF2YuDeRXj9QnIbxnFJGdZxN632np87vVfsdNxZm2018SA9RSDPYrPJP_0aRw_JEqJisP_A/s320/L.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mrs Gnome will have a pink dress but I'm not happy with the shade</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcQoneg44ksoxuDG1dQqO1yynG3RqFYUqfNUsg2Cn5SdfJjbAMSlgsCIlBOjI8BgNRh9ITcu5TqTokrvWADysvxyOu8PIZSYiXehLLr7Ji1m9T8UEMltWX7OJmZ8HeJiN07uI866A12-lQX2OrvauA57DICxSKdSHCea6nvbwkIE9pV6bjfF6aWDJgx4/s5184/M.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcQoneg44ksoxuDG1dQqO1yynG3RqFYUqfNUsg2Cn5SdfJjbAMSlgsCIlBOjI8BgNRh9ITcu5TqTokrvWADysvxyOu8PIZSYiXehLLr7Ji1m9T8UEMltWX7OJmZ8HeJiN07uI866A12-lQX2OrvauA57DICxSKdSHCea6nvbwkIE9pV6bjfF6aWDJgx4/s320/M.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I want it darker like the scissor handle, so I will have to mix some of the pink with a drop of red.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqlTtUAYiu4CFjsdl2E_yOSzVnWp2vR9dq5v0bD_Yhup2c3BY-XgSLKSKG8QssinP64fEs59xBa-b2E2Z-A0pPGsuFL_M1jWDwPfmCHWKmFQQqj-DH_negjON2xk9SpHofvgHIAu9UktGmO4p96m1m4y2fBg2pPPTJNOhxZmS0tQoJdFqo0nJbEHi18B4/s1600/N.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1016" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqlTtUAYiu4CFjsdl2E_yOSzVnWp2vR9dq5v0bD_Yhup2c3BY-XgSLKSKG8QssinP64fEs59xBa-b2E2Z-A0pPGsuFL_M1jWDwPfmCHWKmFQQqj-DH_negjON2xk9SpHofvgHIAu9UktGmO4p96m1m4y2fBg2pPPTJNOhxZmS0tQoJdFqo0nJbEHi18B4/s320/N.JPG" width="203" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">here is one of the twins wearing Mummy's shoes</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Videos:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwn9OvKDZKRogEKTLGJGxhC20elUs3uCZ2bP-2ecE7AU6RzM8iJOR3yrdIGzAq84rexKGYYnQl6o5AmxEeRxw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">they love the baby trampoline, turn your sound up and hear them "talking" to each other</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and the next VERY short video</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyeTQtXqijqT85nhmT2Yx8f1GytI44ipsfCeIiDuQPXizroJbBTx2Pfm9vVLkhD0hQ6G_QP7sNQ6d_GC6GNzA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">is from their Disco Night.</span> </p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-91594262749809555972024-01-19T01:00:00.001+10:302024-01-19T01:00:00.140+10:30Wednesday's Words on a Friday<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH7K1mm8WmVSQXsg0c0KGtNW1XIclaB7yuKOakg6g6GN_uCtTRW6yyz1I6_BlfSneaxC2AtaLOtPSoeJ3Zcmp9dn3z8kRiYQ3SHX1IQf6OQ3Jjuv7aEo-qskn_rNcGgHFKCCK398UTut3YpEbls_EKO8COo3ZRyTRcO2426L1RJ1x7WCldW4cqRzl_EKs/s292/words%206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="292" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH7K1mm8WmVSQXsg0c0KGtNW1XIclaB7yuKOakg6g6GN_uCtTRW6yyz1I6_BlfSneaxC2AtaLOtPSoeJ3Zcmp9dn3z8kRiYQ3SHX1IQf6OQ3Jjuv7aEo-qskn_rNcGgHFKCCK398UTut3YpEbls_EKO8COo3ZRyTRcO2426L1RJ1x7WCldW4cqRzl_EKs/s1600/words%206.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This month the words/prompts are supplied by <span style="color: #cc0000;">Elephant's Child</span> and can be found <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com.au">here</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>This week's words/prompts are:</u> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. glass 2. equally 3. paying 4. join 5. forage </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>and/or: </u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. palace 2. silent 3. bullet 4. stars 5. extraordinary</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Also included is <a href="https://krydderuglen.blogspot.com">Charlotte's</a> colour of the month: <span style="color: #b45f06;">clay brown </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Here is my story:</u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I was the new girl at school and after a week Hannah invited me to join her "Girls Club". "We're very exclusive," she said, "you should be happy we asked you," as her followers nodded and smiled. 'We meet at my house after school and discuss the happenings of the day. The <u>joining</u> fee is three dollars a week to cover the cost of the tea and cakes." I knew what I was about to say probably signed my death warrant as far as schoolyard popularity went, but I'd been there before and knew how to handle being the odd one out. "Three dollars a week to titter and gossip about the rest of the class? I'm not <u>paying</u> that and prefer my mum's home made cakes anyway." I turned and walked away to the shocked gasps and stares of her followers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Jean met me halfway across the playground. "Did she ask you to join her fancy club?" "She did, and I turned her down," I said. "I gathered as much by the looks on the faces," she said. "I was foolish enough to want to be part of it but after the first week I told her 'no more', I didn't like the way they spoke about everyone else. I got the <u>silent</u> treatment!" "For how long?" I asked. "Oh it's still going on," said Jean, "and I couldn't care less. I did like her house though, it's like a <u>palace</u> with huge <u>glass</u> windows and carpet you could drown in, though my mum says she wouldn't want to have to keep that vacuumed everyday! And we ate the fancy little cakes off crystal plates, can you believe that?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"I believe you," I said. "I've heard the most <u>extraordinary</u> stories from my mum's new friends about the things going on at Hannah's. They're an Army family just like us, but her dad is a General according to mum and the windows in his car are <u>bullet</u> proof." "I've heard that too," said Jean, "I've also heard that your dad is almost as high in rank, yet you don't put on fancy airs and carry on like movie <u>stars</u>." "It's true, my dad is just one rank below Mr Nelson, or should I say General Nelson, but he prefers that we eat out of <span style="color: #b45f06;">clay brown</span> bowls and <u>forage</u> in the veggie patch for our dinners. He says rank doesn't matter all that much, without the fancy uniforms and money, we are all <u>equally</u> human and more Officers and their wives should remember that." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"My dad is just a Sergeant with a desk job, and when Hannah found that out she said she was glad I didn't come to her meetings anymore. But there's something else I have to tell you Marissa," she glanced around quickly to be sure no one could hear. "They're in debt to the eyeballs! Hannah's mother spends so much on keeping up appearances, and Hannah's new clothes every year." Just then the bell rang and lunch break was over. We all trooped back inside and I wondered how on earth Hannah would handle being just one of us if worse became worst.</span></p>Riverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664393407924733681.post-23787400364569288992024-01-14T01:00:00.001+10:302024-01-14T01:00:00.239+10:30Sunday Selections # 671<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nothing rude or vulgar though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme is now continued by <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com.au">Elephant's Child</a> and I join in as do a few others. <a href="https://fromthehighrise.blogspot.com.au">Andrew</a> is one. <a href="https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com">Messymimi</a> is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com">Wisewebwoman</a> has also been joining us.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAAI5oW5v6IxTZkrphCp2heBB-2MF_78j1g3rYu8BxBP89TyoCRhA8K2mSbdVwBtHTitj4OcPVY7cI2VIlO7Pby1IYA3xFTnH-gXR3x-gzf1DSFSZmTytjbRGOmPLBWm_KCmxwzVzvHfzK1-Bgdr89FG9rBaWLzqQKgplqQofq2OtbhuWjBB4zpXmAJxA/s5184/A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAAI5oW5v6IxTZkrphCp2heBB-2MF_78j1g3rYu8BxBP89TyoCRhA8K2mSbdVwBtHTitj4OcPVY7cI2VIlO7Pby1IYA3xFTnH-gXR3x-gzf1DSFSZmTytjbRGOmPLBWm_KCmxwzVzvHfzK1-Bgdr89FG9rBaWLzqQKgplqQofq2OtbhuWjBB4zpXmAJxA/s320/A.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">remember my new gnomes?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOcIMDVKylP_QAUJaC3X9ZmmZCHFJ6QSB8RzWq6EZk09sth7tlqKEyaB4ZFHM48qoJCZY0UmC5YFxmDbmqb7nkSfj0asiYwq4TGxkf5ZateISumWiGx0bDtZ7La8dijORSb_erurz2rbvdTZ2Pxx_c85vhssydmuABEKhjCNb3zAWeiD83Rr6FRS7hs6o/s5184/B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOcIMDVKylP_QAUJaC3X9ZmmZCHFJ6QSB8RzWq6EZk09sth7tlqKEyaB4ZFHM48qoJCZY0UmC5YFxmDbmqb7nkSfj0asiYwq4TGxkf5ZateISumWiGx0bDtZ7La8dijORSb_erurz2rbvdTZ2Pxx_c85vhssydmuABEKhjCNb3zAWeiD83Rr6FRS7hs6o/s320/B.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">the painting has begun with a bright red cap</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDQpiMzDQQlw1SiwgkR3t1SruZiX8z5bxdc3055aFUYX8VftkbhagS-OwqP7-b7HMfXd5M7_pn-aQQl_JMXPgRPUcosT-d34oUKFZ5byJnv1cBzmZbQ3JoVzlT8tgoCY2RweZka564CX90GflEUEoK9Nr-_lNbplVcwhHXnlb4Xmx_lax85WghZxjFAI/s5184/C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDQpiMzDQQlw1SiwgkR3t1SruZiX8z5bxdc3055aFUYX8VftkbhagS-OwqP7-b7HMfXd5M7_pn-aQQl_JMXPgRPUcosT-d34oUKFZ5byJnv1cBzmZbQ3JoVzlT8tgoCY2RweZka564CX90GflEUEoK9Nr-_lNbplVcwhHXnlb4Xmx_lax85WghZxjFAI/s320/C.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and a green cap. These are oil based paints,</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0pr2jtHl16KfnhgfCb_RyUpFcT7nUCO4rUKa_flfoxSIcVNt6u0NHv0DbkpvTCMy3ey7M9LhCYmJtPGoYzj65_6OzgnsUOE7X8zvyJerrSRIIXp52bqj-CcY9eLutlzAwmFU2-8q6r26u5fSZ1JVjM5f6y4EGPzEQZeUN7EP66_CFYMSXRAEI7qj7hs/s5184/D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0pr2jtHl16KfnhgfCb_RyUpFcT7nUCO4rUKa_flfoxSIcVNt6u0NHv0DbkpvTCMy3ey7M9LhCYmJtPGoYzj65_6OzgnsUOE7X8zvyJerrSRIIXp52bqj-CcY9eLutlzAwmFU2-8q6r26u5fSZ1JVjM5f6y4EGPzEQZeUN7EP66_CFYMSXRAEI7qj7hs/s320/D.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">not so easy to clean up when the paint runs where it shouldn't. I over-loaded the brush 😟</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxzlN8cWbzy1jzjxYOzpyPqhAOzVrH1fagbVWTpHbHcptXXL0SMm0g-M4_zAEPjDwsqif1rDnTe1QvgBanvrShDpEX3AvIXTJCGixc6pEgTA1-hgxqZjCWAqf7Z06Oyspx4ISaeuhosgnHMErWYCNEPa2YKNG1t7tRelfSwhozUEn8iOS4J2H7dlSPcAc/s5184/E.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxzlN8cWbzy1jzjxYOzpyPqhAOzVrH1fagbVWTpHbHcptXXL0SMm0g-M4_zAEPjDwsqif1rDnTe1QvgBanvrShDpEX3AvIXTJCGixc6pEgTA1-hgxqZjCWAqf7Z06Oyspx4ISaeuhosgnHMErWYCNEPa2YKNG1t7tRelfSwhozUEn8iOS4J2H7dlSPcAc/s320/E.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">many of my other gnomes also need a little touching up where they have faded from being in the garden years ago, I need to buy more paint.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVjHOo3Vk-EDZWctpCRvm__ND0QqaUfI3A3gMm_PnG_IAqEAclBb2UNZAwIfRKRZmiqJJTVIoZji0gFMy2btmvklVgF1UncY6nN_6G3rAA0ELv8nS1NYsqGB-6JL6piGWvzoSo7MRp4UlAygDcP5PT6yBVqM-VMHKaQIbJ4XGE9Y8NNLwsCHLtDw37JE/s4032/F.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVjHOo3Vk-EDZWctpCRvm__ND0QqaUfI3A3gMm_PnG_IAqEAclBb2UNZAwIfRKRZmiqJJTVIoZji0gFMy2btmvklVgF1UncY6nN_6G3rAA0ELv8nS1NYsqGB-6JL6piGWvzoSo7MRp4UlAygDcP5PT6yBVqM-VMHKaQIbJ4XGE9Y8NNLwsCHLtDw37JE/s320/F.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">a fence nearby still has its Christmas look</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIhdg4BcBtw2whnizGSQagzt_rUFaGtjvs-wNbB8pxv7mHYSyAcW-TBV5Lhdo8lCytzOeJr-pX-A5xa8cnLbG6wkQ4VCdX9btFIHjPRYJFKl9SYq5LZEJJ9Wp-MhstdzGjPd52Edurx8uHIKEw5rH9T4A2lWbT9OIIxPNNn1_RfCcNYlmYvWDqh6_yTk/s4032/G.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIhdg4BcBtw2whnizGSQagzt_rUFaGtjvs-wNbB8pxv7mHYSyAcW-TBV5Lhdo8lCytzOeJr-pX-A5xa8cnLbG6wkQ4VCdX9btFIHjPRYJFKl9SYq5LZEJJ9Wp-MhstdzGjPd52Edurx8uHIKEw5rH9T4A2lWbT9OIIxPNNn1_RfCcNYlmYvWDqh6_yTk/s320/G.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and I was cheered to hear the whistling of this blue budgerigar (budgie)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGJtENjjYOabpBxsj-NutiUEW9bM2SLZrV-UeLmAW13kj6tb9VD_s2_b5FDyC11PMgG3C4cVphJbigy6OlptRQB_uI0LHpmV6d0KO9A-lNhxEG_s5OyS986A-PCgGGbwFyZLpVxtIqLE_aBjyQ6PzhvIeH4mbhc3HZ3_8br0gmKfiHK8xBcOKPa8YkRSk/s4032/H.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGJtENjjYOabpBxsj-NutiUEW9bM2SLZrV-UeLmAW13kj6tb9VD_s2_b5FDyC11PMgG3C4cVphJbigy6OlptRQB_uI0LHpmV6d0KO9A-lNhxEG_s5OyS986A-PCgGGbwFyZLpVxtIqLE_aBjyQ6PzhvIeH4mbhc3HZ3_8br0gmKfiHK8xBcOKPa8YkRSk/s320/H.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">a red flowered gum tree in full bloom</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPruiyurv9phhtFzP_SeGkZ9J6cmiFlNSDpuImFDuaBiwYjlv8QclUMA5ml0Z3unQ1HS446D0vKEfioqsVqW1JXjqsGPy-er1w02O-pdefC_19V1VyozxbSq_HWPGbRIv-lk5sR-r-T3LTUc4OpOP-y6km_wbOzLTky93TeK3cyWPH-oC5BoPdh3hwxN8/s4032/I.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPruiyurv9phhtFzP_SeGkZ9J6cmiFlNSDpuImFDuaBiwYjlv8QclUMA5ml0Z3unQ1HS446D0vKEfioqsVqW1JXjqsGPy-er1w02O-pdefC_19V1VyozxbSq_HWPGbRIv-lk5sR-r-T3LTUc4OpOP-y6km_wbOzLTky93TeK3cyWPH-oC5BoPdh3hwxN8/s320/I.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">here is a closeup of the flowers</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB8-V7o1n2ZCOaZqrpD_bcOJ00fxo1nQ3VGQahA1Tr8mR1IklSqhsh0Ynom0C-IzpmavwVS5eZEYuyFnF4xR4eAxvGCdH_OZ4Myougr_Gfhw3bZKnzVnnlN92stVTTR1sPDM7jMYhax7CgrnMnwfnfj81q16ZDcnN0swW_B2SBGNEUBLFXimGAGUrB4Ik/s4032/J.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB8-V7o1n2ZCOaZqrpD_bcOJ00fxo1nQ3VGQahA1Tr8mR1IklSqhsh0Ynom0C-IzpmavwVS5eZEYuyFnF4xR4eAxvGCdH_OZ4Myougr_Gfhw3bZKnzVnnlN92stVTTR1sPDM7jMYhax7CgrnMnwfnfj81q16ZDcnN0swW_B2SBGNEUBLFXimGAGUrB4Ik/s320/J.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and a local snail-creeper vine is also in full bloom, I've heard these are very hard to get started from seed or cuttings</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRW-zrueejhL1ZxE72wgJ4SBFqOJUG7S70OzjcHSfNYRK1FtoVVdZdPWCFHCGq7NVH8iV319Hbgl-WrNchHFhI9YLtCPGoBQHxShMpv2x_92uKC1uW0AkdBJfSqivd0MbBgTxeWYC8fl3cIYqBbecltcFl1jmu-iXvnQp2MpAiacbHeV_oforpwhl4Wpo/s4032/K.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRW-zrueejhL1ZxE72wgJ4SBFqOJUG7S70OzjcHSfNYRK1FtoVVdZdPWCFHCGq7NVH8iV319Hbgl-WrNchHFhI9YLtCPGoBQHxShMpv2x_92uKC1uW0AkdBJfSqivd0MbBgTxeWYC8fl3cIYqBbecltcFl1jmu-iXvnQp2MpAiacbHeV_oforpwhl4Wpo/s320/K.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">a closeup shows why the flowers are called "snails"</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieL-FPfsQHWG6EZB_puLcrRSZO9_1VWEyOmP-KGbbKi20k2xuRIdUHiKD42lZ4_hcT68GsnNWSckLjIOnurNzAvg0kzRHqGMxSHOueHog0QF7LAicvkdZUtrbt0eDVMejFNcEGQqiSdBlYIcM_NNaCqkQdxbJUrjAGuG-lkz8SHgK20GlShYTZ2A9iong/s320/M.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and a painted garden box on a footpath</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">meanwhile in "no-one's" garden...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKreCLk640jZeG5J0jVEpUIvDHFioLNhR74J9jJdzfl4JJ-xyoAy367pUuLP07hWU600i5ZBJwO_FXq3aw4os1ur6mHchElH7uUhjwLVbxepQxDPoaNvr2VDRNvcmV28m1AZShIz7kEm8VqFESM_-zeA6P8cQqhyf4EEKRsxvFSm0r51w0yFbPPYGVAE8/s1024/N.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKreCLk640jZeG5J0jVEpUIvDHFioLNhR74J9jJdzfl4JJ-xyoAy367pUuLP07hWU600i5ZBJwO_FXq3aw4os1ur6mHchElH7uUhjwLVbxepQxDPoaNvr2VDRNvcmV28m1AZShIz7kEm8VqFESM_-zeA6P8cQqhyf4EEKRsxvFSm0r51w0yFbPPYGVAE8/s320/N.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">her dwarf apple tree is producing delicious granny smith apples as well as the red delicious from last week's showing, it is a multi-grafted tree.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhol-nYLSVpdDGbNCK650RmQuizZKuTeOc3j-nSemJJO2MxrlSsPsML3qiKybu55CDiY9uKACO78p2ZBvApskQjibmMq4ozxVLFJX9s7aOnDsoAHaSUiZ1kT4-0s8oJ77t_OQMSRp6HIEqZKmX8iWc0kS8ByyLMS5mFKN0PmwnnmqS4aZ9GTEvBy4UP2OM/s1280/O.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="937" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhol-nYLSVpdDGbNCK650RmQuizZKuTeOc3j-nSemJJO2MxrlSsPsML3qiKybu55CDiY9uKACO78p2ZBvApskQjibmMq4ozxVLFJX9s7aOnDsoAHaSUiZ1kT4-0s8oJ77t_OQMSRp6HIEqZKmX8iWc0kS8ByyLMS5mFKN0PmwnnmqS4aZ9GTEvBy4UP2OM/s320/O.JPG" width="234" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"no-one" has bought a chilli plant and will be learning to make her own chilli sauce</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgme4u-ajrE2t_Lt50pmpRzbMmKz-SQR60x29sT5lXVVjP02KYvEuhjizsCm_DIAgPtEzUavBU4a98vDK6y1tZioSmQSuG-YpEitYC1Dz7pEICLSVR-69NPMaClWXb-W_Yg9g8py01VKI4m6G3E57IPgYWmozz54ZexsU-_Mp4tQRyYI0kWinRkyHa15LE/s800/P.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfJufckXVo1E1JEhSrE2wV4jCV9lAIMiqZYvJ4awPPu4MKHAmCCgcG8uXCUp43h8DWGmOOdTZ25gytZrA9acNDoqXSAiq2IL62Tw2WJEb2YWIQ1Lpml24COyDusoyqte_sxUXI5GTjP2deTmTsYtLR3Qs1F6HtjQgbKRHVq1l2-QgzXOO3DBwK1On2LA/s1599/R.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1599" data-original-width="1015" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfJufckXVo1E1JEhSrE2wV4jCV9lAIMiqZYvJ4awPPu4MKHAmCCgcG8uXCUp43h8DWGmOOdTZ25gytZrA9acNDoqXSAiq2IL62Tw2WJEb2YWIQ1Lpml24COyDusoyqte_sxUXI5GTjP2deTmTsYtLR3Qs1F6HtjQgbKRHVq1l2-QgzXOO3DBwK1On2LA/s320/R.JPG" width="203" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and looking quite solemn out in the yard</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_eYxj3bofMPd1sz7rJsHvDlJs5BAhHEFVC_98vu8UGs535hlByVpFxVM-DBZO2GFRsFA0f-0dXvshhEXxRAUYsPMZWIcv7e7UGtWDqtE1aLhJF8X8QQB6uWGZDcz9YPPDuCoUIxWriZAVYORr5E6NXGbb89bFXPimOy93TT69sJEeM9HPNTEF7oufag/s1599/R.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1599" data-original-width="1015" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_eYxj3bofMPd1sz7rJsHvDlJs5BAhHEFVC_98vu8UGs535hlByVpFxVM-DBZO2GFRsFA0f-0dXvshhEXxRAUYsPMZWIcv7e7UGtWDqtE1aLhJF8X8QQB6uWGZDcz9YPPDuCoUIxWriZAVYORr5E6NXGbb89bFXPimOy93TT69sJEeM9HPNTEF7oufag/s320/R.JPG" width="203" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">watching the bubbles floating around</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4Oekv_JJJZJ71N_R0GtpmSHHsnUXMxrw797QMk-lxhLT_88tkcdD3S4KZGl1VUaCaftsPwtOrLBnysb-Rqu2A_R0jnzGeWF7exkSENclNHYZCF0Jx6LhB0jRx3Kw8Q5TK6yAY2v5pvusFBRbXnlMbSEDU4dby7asyl_pg_KzaNp-NqIRSi6oM4m4RMw/s1600/S.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4Oekv_JJJZJ71N_R0GtpmSHHsnUXMxrw797QMk-lxhLT_88tkcdD3S4KZGl1VUaCaftsPwtOrLBnysb-Rqu2A_R0jnzGeWF7exkSENclNHYZCF0Jx6LhB0jRx3Kw8Q5TK6yAY2v5pvusFBRbXnlMbSEDU4dby7asyl_pg_KzaNp-NqIRSi6oM4m4RMw/s320/S.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">they have a bubble making machine</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqyUNNQ5UBce_YI4a5Wyx1XxAaBlcGaMwB-v3uniIRf_dKerLYPUtRfFHqzcEpfX0OxzDlcEQqQsq950wzLyHtMqAdsTY6C101JF8JD1mW-rX-BpB-ldxPkSNx8VyoQfr0g9h-VKaKvTUuY7vH3QTT2iqD78ZanbAqbG5ieE-e_dYhftxDWmpvvIQ9SUY/s320/U.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">looks like great fun</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHieARg6Glw3LnxNSvWJ8dtw_itQwMa-H6CfXFMjfTeT6ZHfDfR0-w-FKwjtbJKD8agCaUZlAHtO4-3m0yenRD1a5uP5nios4VyCR13PK7vAUaI-lqGfZHUt7m51ik-jHWsXFND0Ib9HOpbqopWhIgpWf_uI4et14lFaKTT8RvcKfnf8ZUc1NNzGTzPB8/s1600/V.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHieARg6Glw3LnxNSvWJ8dtw_itQwMa-H6CfXFMjfTeT6ZHfDfR0-w-FKwjtbJKD8agCaUZlAHtO4-3m0yenRD1a5uP5nios4VyCR13PK7vAUaI-lqGfZHUt7m51ik-jHWsXFND0Ib9HOpbqopWhIgpWf_uI4et14lFaKTT8RvcKfnf8ZUc1NNzGTzPB8/s320/V.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Gen on her bike</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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