Sunday Seletions #688

 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 other bloggers care to join us.

The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.

Wisewebwoman has also been joining us occasionally.

beginning with "old faithful" my much loved, now dead, washing machine with the newer tumble dryer stacked on top.

an original Asko, Made in Sweden, guaranteed for 25 years. She lived to be 27 and survived five house moves. The crack and missing section (the black hole) in that panel is from being dropped a few feet off the back of the trailer during her final move.

At the local laundromat, thankfully within easy walking distance, this wall is the bank of eight giant tumble dryers, $1 gets you six minutes of drying time and there are temperature selection buttons for high, medium or low heat.

along the second wall are eight machines, these two being the largest and probably able to easily wash king size doonas (duvets, quilts, featherbeds whatever you call them)

the middle three slightly smaller ones which I will use soon to wash all the blankets that I use on the armchairs all winter and the one on my bed that Lola loves to sleep on. Perhaps I'll just put them all at once into one of the giant machines.

at the end are the three smallest machines, though they are still larger than anything you'd have at home, and you can see my sheets and pillowcases tumbling around in one while the other has my clothes.

two good sized sorting-and-folding tables

and a rail where people can hang forgotten items they might find in a machine

across the tiles is the local Woolworths supermarket, I don't shop there as much as I used to, I prefer the locally owned supermarket across the road.

a half grown tree changing its colours

and a baby one doing the same

a trio of autumn trees seen through the front window of the bus

two palm trees with a fluffy cloud sailing past behind them, these are on Henley Beach Road, way across town, where I went to an appliance store and ordered my new washing machine, one I could afford and has an easy one dial control, instead of the multiple computerised choices which I find impossible to use. 

a couple of cheeky lads, this is a coffee shop/cafe which also has a footpath window you can order from to sip while you walk or wait for a bus.

Lola stretched out in a patch of sunshine on my table, looking much more like the kitten she once was than an old girl almost 15 which is 76 in cat years.

from my brother, this is "Elsey Cemetery" in the Northern Territory.

information about some of the unknown "tenants"

a big headstone

a gateway I think, or a memorial?

and statues of Jeanie and Aeneas Gunn, with Jeanie being the author of the classic Australian novel "We of the Never-Never" about Elsey Station  in the 1890s. A "station" is what Americans would call a 'ranch"

Anastasia with her hair loose, she began the day with pigtails.

Genevieve with her ponytail still intact, different hair styles helps us know who is who these days.

and this is what Gen's hair looks like now, it's getting longer.

This month's calendar page, very similar to last month's.

I won't be home to answer comments, I'll be having a Mother's Day lunch with the twins and their parents J (son) and S.