Home, Garden and Sydney
With a bit more attention possible this year, things have come on quite well, helped by some horse droppings from a local stable and some rain! I am particularly pleased with the yellow wallflowers--lovely scent.
Home, Garden and Sydney
Our French Group-FASS--organised a meal at Miranda RSL for about 80 people and heard a talk on wines by an international judge and were entertained by a French singer.
Home, Garden and Sydney
We drove to Cremorne yesterday, to visit Michael and Kris, where Michael had booked us into a guest house--one of the oldest in Sydney. Cremorne could not be more different to Cronulla. When the whole peninsular became available the Council banned any private waterfront development, thus preserving a wide
Home, Garden and Sydney
A leaflet with our council rates caught our attention as being a bit 'quirky', so we got tickets to this 'medieval' performance by the Royal Opera House Ensemble at a local small theatre. 'Royal' in this case means Royal National Park Opera , not THE
Birthdays & Anniversaries
With weather warm enough (just!) to be outside, we had a lunch then retired to the heated lounge room. Cake courtesy Caryl (plus pansy leaves).
Kayaking
With warmer weather and a manageable breeze and high tide, I set off for Mainabar and the café for lunch! The water was very clear . In case you were wondering--I balanced the camera on a bough of a dead and capsized gum tree.
Music
Our Sutherland Shire community Concert band performed, with exhibition dancers and the public yesterday afternoon--to great acclaim! There were some smaller group performances as well and it was all fun. The flute group nearly descended into hysterical chaos when one of them almost fell off the back of the
Family
A family weekend with John, Penny, their son-in-law Adam and Grandchildren James and Tom, in the Blue Mountains in very low temperatures. Garden pics of caryl, James in a tee pee with ipad (!) and Tom (in disguise) on the treehouse watched by Kris. We also did a walk
Bushwalking
A very pleasant walk along the river banks in sun and later, wind, commencing at Emu Plains station--a fine building.We also passed a Japanese Saké factory (distillery?) and the classiest outside 'dunny' that I have seen. Once again there were interesting people to talk to. Our
Bushwalking
A walk with our friends from FASS in weather perfect for walking, along the coast track. A lot of it burned out by the recent fires. We saw more whales than we have ever seen before and the whales breaching and flapping their tales as well. It's the
Spectacles
This year there was a one way pedestrian traffic flow, which allowed us to cover more of it without long waits or frustrations. It did rain for the last hour we were there, which was not welcome but overall a great display. We started the walk with a meal with
Kayaking
First trip for over three, possibly four months. We went to the cafe at Maianbar then pic of Mary preparing for the final leg home .