Saturday, June 30, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 30.6.2018 - Plant.

It looks like a Prickly Pear Plant just above David's head!   That's the Palace in Monaco in the background.   We saw Princess Grace on this day, we were walking towards the Palace up a narrow road and she passed by being driven in a.....  Now David will remember what sort of car it was!!  :-)

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Friday, June 29, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 29.6.2018 - Close Up.

Back in 1968 we were able to get right up close to Stonehenge, not any more!

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Thursday, June 28, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 28.6.2018 - What I'm doing right now....

Going through my photos in iPhoto.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 27.6.2018 - I Feel.

 I feel very happy that this old Coal Miner was willing to sit and chat to me about life in the tin mines of Cornwall.  1968.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 26.6.2018 - Brave

David is very brave shaving in a cold creek somewhere in Wales 1968.

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Monday, June 25, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 25.6.2018 - Path.

One very dangerous path up to the cottage on Lands End.

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Photo a Day Challenge - 24.6.2018 - Black and White.

This is a photo of the first meal I cooked for us, enjoying our dinner watching a black and white TV at  Henfield Cottage.

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Photo a Day Challenge - 23.6.2018 - Pink.


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Friday, June 22, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 22.6.2018 - Collection

A collection of postcards that we sent to our family in Australia, some are from friends to us as well.

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Thursday, June 21, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 21.6.2018 - Something far away.


 Its a long long way to the Island of Stroma from where David is standing at John O'Groats in Wick, Scotland.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 20.6.2018 - Reward.

Lots of yummy 'rewards' in this shop...

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

 

Thinking of my mum Rosie, she would have been 95 today...

Rosie's 80th Birthday on Rodd Island back in 1993.

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Photo a Day Challenge - 19.6.2018 - The Weather.

Cold and snowy all around.

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Monday, June 18, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 18.6.2018 - Something Blue.

Postcard... Blue Sky over Buckland Abbey, once the home of Sir Francis Drake, then the home of one of my very distant relatives Captain Rodd, now owned by the National Trust.

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Sunday, June 17, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 17.6.2018 - Outside.

Walking on the outside walls of the Roman Military Station on Hadrian's Wall.

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Friday, June 15, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 16.6.2018 - Dinner,

Eating my dinner in the back of our London Taxi.

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Photo a Day Challenge - 15.6.2018 - Water.

A boatman wearing a bus drivers hat on the River Wey back in 1968.

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Thursday, June 14, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 14.6.2018 - I never...

I have never ever checked oil or fixed an engine... lucky I have a good man eh!!

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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

 

Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday!!!

 Happy Birthday To Tomo...

 Happy Birthday To Kate... 

Happy Birthday to Ellie!

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Photo a Day Challenge - 13.6.2018 - A sign.


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Monday, June 11, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 12.6.2018 - Play Time.

 Hard to see but that's me sweeping the snow off the footpath.  My legs must have been freezing!
David building a Snow Man for me :-)    Playing in the snow is over rated in my honest opinion!!

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Photo a Day Challenge -11.6.2018 - Something Awesome.

October 1967 just before David left for England, we did a little trip around Sydney... Opera House not yet finished!

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Sunday, June 10, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 10.6.2018 - Organise.

Our London Taxi all organized and ready to be driven down to Southampton to board the SS Orsova and sail to Australia, while we head to Siberia!!

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Saturday, June 09, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 9.6.2018 - Paper.


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Friday, June 08, 2018

 

50th Wedding Anniversary Lunch.

Way back in October 1967 David was about to sail off to England for who knows how long!  We were good friends and had just started to like each other so before he left he took me on our first and only real 'Date' to Barrenjoey House at Palm Beach.    How' La de da' was this eh!!  

I remember it well, I had my first ever Carpet Bag Steak (Fillet Steak stuffed with Oysters), very popular in the 1950's and 60's but never seen on a Menu now days.

During this meal David asked me to wait for him... I replied... No way!  I wasn't going to wait for someone who was going overseas for one or two years!  No Way!

David sailed off a few days later and we both remember that feeling of  'What the???'  while I was on the dock and he on board sailing away out of sight...  The rest is history.

So today is our 50th Wedding Anniversary and we decided to go back to Barrenjoey House for lunch... and do you know what that man of mine did... he checked the menu online, no Carpet Bag... so he rang and booked a table then asked if he could order two Carpet Bag steaks, the Chef had to be asked and yes... just for us!!    

Amazing, what a beautiful gift eh!
 Blini, Smoked Salmon, Caviar, Dill and Creme Fraiche.

 A deliciously yummy Blue Carpet Bag Steak for me...  Very Big Sigh...

 Mango, Raspberry and Sticky Fig Gelato for me...

 Affogato, Vanilla Bean, Gelato, Espresso, Frangelico for David.

 These beautiful lights fascinated me.

 Out the window is Pittwater.





This bus was full of Asian Tourists enjoying their tour... and further up the road around the corner in Governor Philip Park were truck after truck of film crew so maybe they were lucky and saw some filming!

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On this day 50 years ago!

David and I were married at Guildford Register Office in Surrey, England.
Reading Telegrams sent from Home. 



Here is a photo of all our guests,  I knew nobody at our wedding except David of course and I hadn't seen him for seven months.



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Photo a Day Challenge - 8.6.2018 - Mates.

Freezing on the Brighton Road watching the London to Brighton Vintage Car Rally.  That's me on the roof with our 'mates' by the side of the road.

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Thursday, June 07, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 7.6.2018 - To my Left.

 To my left is a window then a big open space to put suitcases!




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Wednesday, June 06, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 6.6.2018 - Where i work.

Cooking our evening meal on some back road in the UK.

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Tuesday, June 05, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 5.6.2018 - My Favourite.

Our Favourite Children... all four of them :-)

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Monday, June 04, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 4.6.2018 - This is so ME!

Big and Brave up the Leaning Tower at Pisa!! 

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Sunday, June 03, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 3.6.2018 - I sat here.

Sir Francis Drake's chair at Buckland Abbey.

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Saturday, June 02, 2018

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 2.6.2018 - Snack.

Beaulieu back in 1968.

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Friday, June 01, 2018

 

On this day Fifty years ago... I left Australia for the very first time.

Almost my whole family turned up at Sydney Airport to farewell me on my first big adventure overseas.
Uncle Tony, Great Aunt Carol, Friend of Meredith's, Aunt Anne, Cousin Matthew behind being held up by Uncle Mick, between Mick's head and my head is Rip's bald head, sister Meredith on my right... then Rosie, behind her is Cousin Andrew, then Aunt Pam and Cousin Sue, in front Cousins Marcus, Nick and the top of Cousin Simon's head....

First stop was Darwin, then Bombay, Tehran, Rome then a big detour around Paris because of Students Rioting so I arrived in London flying over the beautiful fields of Essex...  I know sounds like madness but there were no direct flights to London 50 years ago. 
Why was I going to London you may ask...  Well this old friend rang and asked... 'Why don't you come over and we'll get married or something?' 

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