So I was on my morning walk (to the shops, not really for exercise) looking for the extraordinary in the ordinary as is my want, and I saw a row of marigolds up against a fence. But look what I caught on film! My other photos are a little more prosaic. One day though [...]
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Just photos today – some things that caught my attention as I walked along the Nedlands foreshore.
I love this photo – my two gorgeous ones laughing and enjoying being kids on a swingy roundabout. But they won’t be able to do that again. The fun police – the wrap your children in cotton wool brigade – have decided that it’s too dangerous. I’m in Geraldton and I discover to my SHOCK [...]
On a recent trip to Albany I went down to the windfarm – about ten minutes out of town or so – to check it out. The turbines are impressively big. The whooshing noise they make impressively loud. And the cliffs reminded me of the Cliffs of Moher. Vaguely. There are lots of fun stats [...]
How beautiful is that pool. I started work early yesterday so I could snaffle an hour by the pool in the afternoon. Lucky I did because the thunderclouds rolled in. We were having a little barbie near the pool and the lightning scared the kids a little. It was spectacular. Sadly no rain which means [...]
Where do you think this church is? It could be in Europe – a sunny part obviously – it could be in South America or Mexico. It’s in Mullewa, about an hour east of Geraldton in the midwest. Coming across this church as the sun set on Wednesday was surreal. I had driven up with [...]
Isn’t it beautiful? The letters you can see are V-I-S so we think it’s a Ben Nevis pipe made somewhere in Glasgow. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the UK and a lot of clay pipes came from Scotland. Clay pipes were the disposable cigarette of the 1800s. The thin hole in the stem [...]
I’m very excited. You see this guy… His name is Sean. He’s a PhD student in Archeology at UWA. He’s studying convicts in WA. And he’s going on a field trip next year. And (this is the exciting bit) I’m going with him to help! Before I met Sean all I knew about convicts in [...]
I first saw this sign at North Cottesloe. I thought then it was a stupid sign. What are they trying to warn against? Diving? Shallow water? Why not just say that?? To just say “water” seems a bit obvious. Hello… it is the Indian Ocean… Having two stupid signs… does that make the Town of [...]
See… now the logo makes sense! I don’t usually do restaurant reviews on this blog but Friday night we went to Pata Negra, the new Tapas bar open on Stirling Highway… opposite my fave Vietnamese restaurant TQR. It was fantastic. The food was ALL good. Of course I am rubbish when it comes to Tapas. [...]
