Home, Garden and Sydney
Home, Garden and Sydney
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Beach and the next day
We had several extremely hot and humid days --where else can you go but the rock pools? Then, next day, it poured, for quite some time this time--more useful than the flash storm we had before. We had lunch under cover on our patio, sheltered from the southerly very
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A trip with Stuart and Alison
Getting away from the bush fire smoke, then yesterday's massive downpour , 20mm in 10 mins, and 90kmph violent winds which cut our power for 20 hours and uprooted and de-branched massive trees on the street, we opted for a quiet paddle with friends to a quiet Maianbar
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Sold and bought kayaks
To upgrade 'The Fleet' I recently sold an older heavy double and baught a secondhand double 'Prijon' (not the thing that causes Mad Cow disease!) We tested on our 'coffee shop route' to Maianbar. Mary pronounced it very comfortable, Phew. On the same day
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Garden in January 2020
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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Car cleaning 2020 in 33 Deg C heat !
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
Christmas 2019 -some pics
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
Boxing Day after breakfast
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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Bushfires
For friends overseas who have concerns for us here in NSW, I attach a map. Right now, we are in the 'eye of the storm here in Sydney--smoke haze for a week, the sun appears orange especially late afternoon, everyone coughing and trying to keep in the house.
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Sydney Harbour Bridge C 1934
Taken by my father who was a crew member on the P&O ship--The Stratheden. Since the picture was taken from shore and the ship is leaving harbour for England, how did he get back on the ship?? My guess is that as my father was the only
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Gladioli in garden
The first time this colour gladiolus has appeared--very attractive
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Aug Sept 2019
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