Saturday, May 31, 2014

 

Not only can he restore Double Decker Buses and change Lightbulbs!!!!!

 He can lay bricks as well......

... What a man!!

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Photo of the Day Challenge - 31.5.2014 - Sunset.


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Friday, May 30, 2014

 

You know when you just have to get up off your chair and dance like your life depended on it!

Here I am Dancing to one of my very old favourite songs from my early teens... we did live near the beach back in 1961... Gawrd, I was only 16 when this came out    :-)

Richard Fidler played it after his 'Conversations' today with some guy who's name I've forgotten already.

David kindly took some photos for you all to enjoy!!!!!!


Are you dancing yet??  Come on I dare you :-)



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Photo a Day Challenge - 30.5.2014 - Side View.

The Homestead Verandah at 'Wollogorang'.

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Thursday, May 29, 2014

 

There is a Debate going on in our family... To Cut or not to Cut?? That is the Question...




Do we think it's time to have Remy's hair cut??

Well just look at his father at about the same age...
How would you Vote?

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Photo a Day Challenge - 29.5.2014 - Negative Space.

Hang Gliding over Manly.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

 

This is a first!

 We do lose a lot of balls into our garden, they get lost in the Ficus on the brick wall or they go into the garden next door... but this is a first that's for sure!


So who hit this ball into our blinds?  It was Val!

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Photo a Day Challenge - 28.5.2014 - Unique.

David's Big Red Bus up on Stilts!!  Now I reckon this is pretty Unique  :-)

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

 

I have a very 'Special' Husband... do you??

 My Husband cuts his Oysters in half... does yours?


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Now lets talk LEGO!!

 When my boys stopped playing with Lego I spent days and days sorting through it, putting all the patterns into a folder and making as many of the models as I could, there was a Double Decker Bus, a Train with Carriages and Track that ran on a battery, there was the Spirit of St Louis, there was a Shell Service Station and many many other wonderful things. 

I was so relieved to get it off the floor, I packed it all up and put it away in the Loft... until Jackson arrived and we were so excited to be able to bring out this enormous amount of Lego to play with... but... he wanted to pull those precious things to bits... he wanted to actually 'build' with it and do what kids do with Lego!  All my work all those years ago was now back on the floor and in pieces!!!  But every time he and then Charlie came around we got the Lego out and they had a ball. 

In the meantime Jack and Charlie have an enormous amount of Lego and love playing with it as well so 'my' Lego wasn't as interesting as the Computer was each time they visited so I sort of re packed it and put it upstairs for when they asked to play with it.

The other day when visiting Jack and Charlies home Nerys told us that she had spent a whole day packing up Lego into plastic bags...  Like Mother like Daughter eh!  :-)

 I had to take photos of Nerys Lego... or should I say Jack and Charlies Lego  :-)


So then I had to take a photo of 'My' Lego... 






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Photo a Day Challenge - 27.5.2014 - Meal.

 Some of my favourites... maybe half of each would make a good meal!



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Monday, May 26, 2014

 

Knitting, knitting, knitting...


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Photo a Day Challenge - 26.5.2014 - Pet.

I'm not a domestic pet sort of person, animals in the house are not my thing.  But I do love Animals and I like my pets native and roaming free, this little chap has been with us for ages, very cheeky and quite daring and hilarious to watch running  :-)

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Sunday, May 25, 2014

 

Soccer in Macao... of should I call it Football?

 George is putting everything into this kick! 

Gosh he loves his game and he looks pretty darn good for a 4 year old!   Go George!!

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Photo a Day Challenge - 25.5.2014 - Neighbourhood.

In our Neighbourhood, up at the local school actually, is a buried Capsule which Nerys and her fellow student Mark buried in 1984, on the Schools 70th Birthday.  The Capsule will be opened for the schools Centenary Celebrations...

Cake cutting and time capsule excavation on Friday 24th at 11.30am

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Saturday, May 24, 2014

 

This old thing... is finished and given away at LAST!

 I started it about 15 years ago, all hand pieced but I was so over it about 10 years ago  :-)  But I don't like having any UFO's (Unfinished Objects)... so a few months handwork and here is it.  I've just given it to a friend who is giving it to Shine, a Charity I'd never heard of but I'm happy to support.

My friend Emma Smith quilted it for me.

Check out... Shine!

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Photo a Day Challenge - 24.5.2014 - Sunrise.

Lying in bed watching the Sunrise in Manly last year... I tried to take a photo of this morning's Sunrise from my bed at home but you don't want to see that one, trust me, this is much better  :-)

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Friday, May 23, 2014

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 23.5.2014 - Black and White.

This is a Black and White photo taken on 'Drawing' setting on my camera.  I should have used this for the 18th.

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Thursday, May 22, 2014

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 22.5.2014 - Free.

Bravo gave me these free after I complained about their containers being too hard to open!!  I love Bravo, especially the Vanilla Bean and the Bavarian Chocolate!!  The containers are much easier to open now :-)

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

 

Let the Truth be told!

Remember this post...

http://penniedarling.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/just-check-our-our-mandy-tree.html

Well I put that post up on my Blog because my friend of 68 years, Miss Smurray, was quite doubtful that my little Mandy Tree could produce the five Mandy's that it did, she peered at me directly and asked if they were actually MY Mandy's!   Well!!!  Of course they were...

... Now that got me going...  and luckily my dear friend Mavis came to the rescue!  Mavis took some photos of her over flowing Mandy tree and sent them to me to put up in that earlier post.  Mavis had already indicated that she would be bringing a basket full of Mandy's to Tennis this week for us to share around.

So today, Mavis true to her word bought her basket of Mandy's and we shared them out... so here is a photo of 'Our' Mandy's!

Poor Smurray couldn't make it to tennis this week so she had to miss out...  Poor Smurray!


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Photo a Day Challenge - 21.5.2014 - Card.

Just look at this amazing card hand made by my friend Kathy!  She is amazing isn't she.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

 

So what are the big boys up to?

 Well... Charlie is on the front cover of his Schools Newsletter.



... Jackson is living it up in Bathurst, here they are the Blue Mountains, one of their stops.

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Our Youngest... but only for another two months................

 Remember these in the Playground... what fun!

 Hey wait for me, I want to help...

Like father like son!

Good work Remy, good work helping daddy grow some veggies in your Community Garden.

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Sunday morning chat with three out of five in Macao!!

 Still in bed we chat to Tilly's finger and George while Daddy eats his breakfast behind!

 Aren't they beautiful!

And so very chatty... doesn't look like it here in this photo but they are.

Emma and Abi were in Hong Kong, Emma was doing a Show and Abi was having a sleep over with a friend who used to live in Macao!  Wonderful world isn't it  :-)

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Photo a Day Challenge - 20.5.2014 - Waiting.

That's me again, in Dover beside our London Taxi waiting to drive it on board that Hoovercraft to Boulogne in 1970.

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Monday, May 19, 2014

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 19.5.2014 - Alone.

When you are driving a 1958 London Taxi, you are all alone in the cabin!  Yes that's me driving through snow in Switzerland!

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Photo a Day Challenge - 18.5.2014 - Something I drew.

I don't draw but I do have a treat for you, here is a Portrait of Penniedarling holding hands with Tilly :-)

Lovely drawing and lovely message Tilly! 

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