Sunday Selections # 592
Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.
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.
Nothing rude or vulgar though.
And we don't mind at all if overseas bloggers care to join us.
The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Andrew is one. Messymimi is another. Drop in to them and have a look.
one lone Cocky fending off the doves
then two,
five,
and ten, one is off camera, right behind the one near the front with his head up, and you can see I put out extra seed for them all
Andrew's recent post featuring Vintage Advertisements reminded me I have these old postcard advertisements for Velvet soap. Way up high behind the Kombi.
here they are propped against my TV screen
enlarging may help you read the fine print, but I wouldn't count on it, it's quite tiny
Velvet Soap stamps out dirt.
I still use Velvet for hand washing of potential stains before tossing things in the machine.
I'm not sure what this is meant to depict
young man, you dropped something
perfectly pure soap
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Makes linen white as snow, and I don't know why this won't stay centred
up on the same high shelf, I have this vintage Coca-Cola tin tray, behind an old farm truck. I used to keep it on the bench with coffee and sugar jars on it, but it was getting scratched so I coated it with clear finish and put it out of reach to keep it safe
"in bottles: 5 cents" a far cry from the cost today, for sure.
and accidentally posted twice
here is my pantry moth trap, doing its job very well, it's out of date now and I should put up a new one
here's G, swaddled and smiling, you'll notice they're getting a bit chubby, they are both 3kg now at 5 1/2 weeks old
here's A also smiling and if you enlarge this you'll see she is blowing bubbles, J says she is trying very hard to actually laugh.
The cockies have found you and word has obviously got out. Love the adds and the twins are gorgeous. Which you know.
ReplyDeleteElephant's Child; I got a new picture of the twins this morning and I can't stop looking at it.
DeleteThe Cockies seem to have a routine, one comes every day, sometimes two, but "the mob" only turns up about every fifth day, which is fine with me. I'd forgotten I had those old postcards.
Word of beak really worked for the birds. So many of them.
ReplyDeleteI remember those 5 cent cokes. Ahh.
Careful with those moth traps. Doug caught a really ugly spider in his.
Love the twins who look to be laughing out loud. Adorable.
Arkansa Patti; I don't remember ever having 5 cent cokes. When Coke forst came to Australia we still had pounds, shillings and pence as currency and a small bottle of coke was 9 pence I think. Eventually a "family size" bottle appeared and it was 2 shillings. Then we changed to dollars and cents and everything was more expensive and larger. I saw Doug's spider, it was that which prompted me to check my own traps.
DeleteThe twins are not yet laughing out loud, they are only 5 and a half weeks old and haven't yet found their voices, but I think it won't be long.
Some lovely shots today River especially those adorable twins.
ReplyDeleteXO
WWW
WWW. thank you. Aren't they just the best babies ever? (Just like every other baby ever born is also the best).
DeleteI was thinking up witty and intelligent comments and then the photos of the twins came along. Just lovely.
ReplyDeleteAndrew; they do tend to blow away any other thoughts don't they?
DeleteI like some of the old coco cola ads
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
Dora; I do too.
DeleteSweet babies! They are such delightful. Wish I could hold them.
ReplyDeleteSusan Kane; I wish I could hold them too, but they are way across town and none of us drives. Taxis are too expensive over such a long distance too.
DeleteVelvet soap is a new one for me. Never heard of it.
ReplyDeleteMike; it comes in boxes of four, big yellow blocks about twice the size of a normal cake of soap, and is made specifically for laundry scrubbing of things like grass stains, oily sauces stains and so on. There is another yellow laundry soap called Sunlight. Does the same job and I buy it sometimes.
DeleteI love seeing photos of the lovely bubs...thanks for sharing, River. They are a joy to behold. :)
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy the week ahead...take good care. Cuddles to the lovely Lady Lola. :)
Lee; the babies are wonderful to look at, I received a new picture this morning and can't stop looking at it. Lola is sound asleep right now after having cuddles most of the morning.
DeleteNice collection of collectables.
ReplyDeleteJoanne; thank you. I'd forgotten I had most of these, they are up on the top kitchen shelf and I just don't look up there very often.
Deletethe hell with all them pictures..more smiling babies.
ReplyDeleteyellowdoggranny; I don't have more photos, although I did get a new one this afternoon, so you'll see that next week. If they lived closer, or if I lived closer, I'd be there with my camera, but they live way across town and none of us drives.
DeleteOh, those are such cute, clever, funny birds!
ReplyDeleteYou are so lucky :-)
Velvet soap? Hmm, here they now have "hard" soap for hair. Haven´t tried it yet.
Yes, the dirt, LOL! First evening in your Outback, I thought, oh! How? I´m brown! I was more or less in the car all day!
It was the "dirt" on the sunscreen!!! LOL.
I still have a video were Ingo takes out our sleeping bags and all and there is so much red "dirt"! We loved it, it was fascinating (our car was old).
Centred... blogger has the hiccups again!
Eww, moths. We have such tiny ones at times, much smaller and hard to get.
Awwww, those cute smiles!!!! Very cute girls! Have a nice Sunday!
Iris Flavia; I have heard about the shampoo soap, but I haven't tried it. I would probably mix it up with my regular soap if it was the same colour. Velvet soap is specifically for laundries. The tiny moths are either pantry moths or clothes moths, if you get them you should get the traps for them. They trap the males so they can't breed and eventually die out. Unless you get more somehow. One evening in the outback and I WOULD be brown, I tan very easily and even in winter here I have some colour.
DeleteI love seeing the twins smiling, it tells me they are happy.
I always use factor 50 with sunscreen. And. I tan. And in an ugly color, to top it all, LOL.
DeleteIngo runs loose without protection (in Germany only, of course!) and... nothing.
Lovely the cockies. Interesting to see Velvet Soap, my mum used that for many things back in the day.
ReplyDeleteMargaret D; I'm sure I left a reply here. I'll check the spam.
DeleteNope, it has vanished. Perhaps I forgot to click on 'publish'.
DeleteI like the "stamp out" advertisement. The one in which the young man dropped something is a mystery to me.
ReplyDeleteSteve Reed; he has dropped his bar of Velvet Soap, hence the caption: "you can't afford to go without it."
DeleteSo many cockatoos! Hick would love your Coke tray, and those Velvet Soap ads. I've never seen a moth trap. That's one thing we don't have a problem with, moths. Such happy babies! They are growing fast.
ReplyDeleteVal; the Cockies come in a mob like that only about once a week, the rest of the days there is usually only the one without the crest, I am wondering if it is a female? I did think they all had crests not just the males, my bird book doesn't have the details.
DeleteHick will have to be content viewing these vintage items online, unless he's prepared to make "an offer I can't refuse". Ha Ha.
They do all have crests. I do hope the one without a crest isn't a victim of victim of beak and feather disease.
DeleteElephant's Child; she/he does look a little rough in the feathers and doesn't fly back to the tree, instead walking back and then climbing up the trunk and branches. She/he does fly down to the seeds. I hope this isn't something contagious and the other birds get it.
DeleteSadly if it is beak and feather disease it is contagious. And incurable.
DeleteElephant's Child; that is sad. So far the rest of the mob seem okay, they don't live around here.
DeleteAfter reading about beak and feather disease, I would try to catch and if necessary kill the affected bird. Don't know if those birds can be caught at all - for me they are a species from the zoo.
DeleteThis post is full of delights!
ReplyDeletemessymimi; thank you
DeleteDo the sulphur crested cockatoos really keep away the doves? If yes, please send me a pair!.
ReplyDeleteThe twins ... sigh ... cuteness overload