Home, Garden and Sydney
Our local gallery , Hazelhurst, run by the council, hosted the year 12 indigenous art display which opened on Sunday with appropriate indigenous dances in Aboriginal costume . There were about 4o entries on display, all very good and some were for sale. The ones we liked had already been sold unfortunately.
Spectacles
Today our Probus club had arranged a visit to Port Kembla blast furnaces where most of Australia's steel is made from iron ore and coking coal. The sight of the blast furnace was stunning-like a volcano with the slag from the reaction at 1450 Deg C running
Australian Holidays
Michael, Kris and boys came down to Manly for a couple of nights and we met them at the Museum. Many sections have been refurbished in a very creative and interactive way. Also in a very 'solid' way so that specimens couldn't be accidentally knocked - so
Home, Garden and Sydney
A cloudy, windy, very cool day but mercifully dry until about 4.00pm. The event is organised by a local bilingual primary school (one of only three in NSW) that we helped get off the ground about five years ago. It's the school annual fair day. In spite
Family
Our band had performances in Bathurst, just over the Great Dividing Range, an inland major University and Cathedral city about four hours drive from Sydney. I stayed in an 'Irish' pub! A bit basic but OK. I looked inside Bathurst Cathedral. It's not as spectacular as
Family
I stayed in Blackheath on the way there and back but cousin John and Penny only there for my return. John took me for a quick visit back to Hathill Road (now asphalted) to Anvil and Wave rocks. We examined some rock samples of various types
Home, Garden and Sydney
The inhabited bays and promenade around Cronulla make it a very suitable place to show off the , often vintage, putt putt inboard motor boats that enthusiasts own in the Shire. Makes a colourful parade for half an hour. Some of the more flamboyant ones---
Home, Garden and Sydney
This has become a controversial date as there is increasing recognition of it also being 'invasion day' by Britain. The date may get changed. A very divisive issue as you might imagine. There is now increasing use of Aboriginal place names for broadcasting stations "This is Joe
Home, Garden and Sydney
The Australian Museum in Sydney followed it's Ramses II display by this and did it again, very well. We went with cousin John and Penny and Jacqui and the boys for our first ride on the new $3 billion driverless Metro to a new station -Gadigal via another
Birthdays & Anniversaries
The family had kindly given me tickets for this and booked for last night at the Castlereagh Boutique Hotel in Sydney, Uber transport as well! It took place in the really attractive upstairs 'Cello Room" about 112 people sat in mostly tables of 8 while Basil, Sybil and
Family
The drive there along the M8 and WestConnex roads was horrendous, with all the twists, turns and lane changes. A couple of years ago son Michael oversaw a major reconstruction of the zoo. He moved on to Newcastle before it was completely finished and this was the first time he’
Home, Garden and Sydney
We went by train with Matt and Steph again and ate sushi at the end of Circular key wharf where the main Vivid sign is. I've kept the picture size small to include more to show the changing scenes on each building we looked at. After an hour