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Today I noticed two large 'clumps' of frog spawn in the pond, one inside a broken sea-shell. I went there to inspect the pond irises which now have two blooms and 11 more buds. I also took pics of the groups of different coloured pansies and the
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Just before leaving, daughter Caryl and I visited the Vivid light show in Sydney. It was varied and spectacular, especially the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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In the morning, Roger and I had booked space on a recycling tour in the Shire. An amazing hole, 200 metres long and 20 metres deep, will contain all the landfill for the next 7 years. Previous landfill operations have been bored and fitted with extraction tubes to yield methane
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Living near an industrial estate, there's always the risk--and today a Boral truck loaded with 20 tonnes of wet cement, rolled at a corner, squashing two parked cars flat, while their owners sipped coffee in Percy's Café! No injuries. It took two rescue trucks about
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A routine ANZAC Day (April 25th) is an important date in Australia, so the 100th year anniversary of WWI receives particular attention and in Bundeena they held their service a week early. All the armed services were represented, including a fly-past. The Bundeena Band (of which I'm
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After the train journey, by Margaret, from Toronto (NSW!) to the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, to see Les Mis, we caught up with her and enjoyed a lunch in Chinatown. But first we noted a street performer- an 82 year old Korean man dressed as a woman, with a hula
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Today was a dark, wet, cold day, but we managed a walk with a neighbour, Holly together with friend Agnés and Danien, a French 'Sapier-Pompier who started a cycle ride in Mongolia and arrived in Australia 2 months ago. He is on his way to Tasmania and is
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Our Southern Sydney Francophone Association (FASS) has worked with a local state Primary School to introduce French into the curriculum. Starting with an after-school French Club, it will progress to a full lesson activity by end of year, if enough students wish to take part. The early signs are
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On our regular Tuesday 'blokes' walk, we saw a great sunrise and rainbow--even a double rainbow. There was a lady doing 'sand pictures' on the beach, as well. I include a pic from last year taken 'inside' a wave --how I did that
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This 'ship-shaped' rock has given rise to the name of a street and I discovered today that the land and path to it was donated in 2007 to the Council, for public access. A new staircase leads from the road. The sea surrounding it is now a
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I recently became a member of the Upper Blue Mountains Bushwalking Club and today they ran an abseil training day. The trainer was Geoff, assisted by Tim and my cousin John also came along to keep an eye on me! We tackled three separate drops, of increasing height and technical
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Tree fellers in a neighbouring garden seemed to leave before they have fully taken down the gum tree. A couple of days later, we spotted the probable reason--a big branch fallen on a partition fence--OOOOpppsssssssssss! I expect the lawyers are meeting now.