Australian Holidays
Early last week we spent three nights with cousin John and Penny. Their garden had bloomed during the summer of lockdown and Mary and Penny picked buckets of quince. There were also a lot of frozen soft fruits from their plant enclosure. We had two walks--one to Jinki Ridge
Australian Holidays
Couple of weekends ago we took the train to Wyong and were collected by Mike and Kris, who had a new trail bike on the back of the 4WD, which we took to storage. We visited Fort Scratchley--built to keep the Russians out after the Crimean war, and Dudley
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Daughter Caryl and myself took our bikes to near the airport where there is a good off-road cycle track into the city. It passes through allotments, many parks and reserves, beside the river for most of it and briefly across a few roads. I was surprised at how rural
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Family drive to Wattamolla on Sunday. We did see some spouting and a lot of flashes of whale fins etc The best whale pic was on Craig's phone from 3 years ago! There were more family there, Michael, Kris, Kris's sister Camille and husband Jake and
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We could only 'attend' this via Zoom, which didn't work too well for us, but we got the video straight after. The ceremony only allowed for 5 fixed people, celebrant, wedding couple , two bridesmaids and roving photographer . It took place in the historic Sydney harbour quarantine
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After lunch at Sylvania Bowling Club, where we went to celebrate Alison's birthday, we took our chance on the bowling green. Alison , Toby and Mary all had spectacular wins!
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In spite of the drought , showing mostly in the brown-patched lawn, we have some healthy blooms, partly attributable to used washing machine and water collected waiting for the hot water to come through. I was advised that the tree fern accesses water from to crown or top --I didn&
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Also strong water use restrictions in NSW. Using a bucket of washing machine water and watering can of tap water for rinse! Getting rid of ash and dust.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Some garden and beach pics from last few days. Our Christmas lunch table, showing Hors d'oeuvres, Kris unpacking her Christmas 'stocking' and some garden pics
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Mary, myself, Caryl, Mike and Kris went to a local beach--boat harbour, for a swim, my first sea swim since my 'op'. It was great! Water temp was about 21Deg C , a bit cool but Ok. The beach may look deserted but but there hundreds of 4WD&
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Thanks to my cousin who suggested Gimp and Irfan. I'll try Irfan first but in the meantime I've found that I have enough of Picasa left on my desktop to make it work for the time being. Just to prove that we do have a winter
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after 16 years! A Subaru Impreza 2.0i. completely new driving experience-we asked our son-in-law how to drive it!