Penniedarling: September 2019

Monday, September 30, 2019

Photo a Day Challenge - 30.9.2019 - Inspiration.

A lot of my day to day sayings come from Jerry Seinfled! a very clever and amusing and inspiring man 😀😀😀

Labels: 9/19, Jerry Seinfeld

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Sunday, September 29, 2019

Photo a Day Challenge - 29.9.2019 - My Name.

I think it's... Pennie!!

Labels: 9/19, Pennie

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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Happy Birthday to our Jackson Harry!

Hard to believe that this little cool dude above is SEVENTEEN years old today!

🎂🎉🎂🎉🎂🎉🎂🎉🎂🎉🎂🎉🎂🎉🎂🎉🎂

Jack is doing a wonderful job of growing up 😊

Labels: Birthdays, Jackson

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Photo a Day Challenge - 28.9.2019 - Currenty Reading.

Currently I am spending many many hours reading so many ancient documents trying to work out exactly how my 3 X Great Grandfather John Rodd connects to the Rodd Family in the UK! Very confusing but I am receiving some excellent help from some wonderful people in the Cornwall area.

Labels: 9/19, Rodd Family

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Friday, September 27, 2019

Lovely Day today and I think it must be 'Bird Visiting Day' if there's such a thing.

First up was this beautiful Magpie.

Next up was Mandy! We haven't seen Mandy this year, I thought she'd may have moved interstate but NO... Here she is... Yay!

Then to Wow us! along comes Mr King Parrot, his Missus wasn't with him today but he enjoyed some native bird seed that I've just bought for them.

The next visitor we enjoyed was Mr Cocky! All on his own as well. Actually all our bird visitors were on their own today.

Labels: Birds, Mandy

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Photo a Day Challenge - 27.9.2019 - Words

So many words in these old Christmas Newsletters, about 30 of these are in the State Library which is wonderful!

Labels: 9/19, Christmas Letters

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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Breakfast at one very superior Restaurant that's for sure!

Yesterday I made this for Breakfast! Toasted Garlic & Olive Oil Bread, Avocado, Grilled Proscuito, Fig, Marinated Goat Cheese and some Cavier... Delicious! Oh and my own Apple, Carrot, Ginger and Mint Juice!

Labels: Food

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Photo a Day Challenge - 26.9.2019 - Z.

Pennie and Tim at Taronga Zoo back in about 1950, don't look very excited do we??

Labels: 9/19, Pennie, Tim Rodd

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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

My little plants...

These are Give-Aways at Supermarket I often go to, I did a big shop last week and got all these.

Planted them and... below one week later!

The Vegetables have taken off but the Herbs and the one and only flower are a bit slow... well maybe I should say... the Vegetables are fast!

Labels: Woolies Plants

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Photo a Day Challenge - 25.9.2019 - Y.

My Great Grandparents - Nancy Yardley (1857-1917) and Edmund Pritchatt (1854-1908), both born in England married in England then came to Australia with four children in about 1890 where they had my Grandmother Edith who married Clements Ripley Rodd.

Labels: 9/19, Rodd Family

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

What to do when you have a lot of odd vegetables in the fridge... Make Vegetable Surprise!

I very lightly microwaved carrots, beans, peas, corn, spinach, cauliflower then cut up heaps of garlic and made white sauce, crumbled some of my own croutons to sprinkle on top then a little Parmesan cheese and instead of old vegetables lying around in the fridge we now have several 'Vegetable Surprise' in the freezer 😃

Labels: Food

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Photo a Day Challenge - 24.9.2019 - X.

'Xmas' back in 1948!
Back - Rip, Pam, Poppa aka Harrie and Rosie. Front - Mr & Mrs Kelly, Pennie, Tim, Mama aka Eileen and Kisser Kelly.

Labels: 9/19, Cobcroft, Kelly, Rodd

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Monday, September 23, 2019

Photo a Day Challenge - 23.9.2019 - W.

'Wollogorang' One of my happiest places... where I met and then later married David 😉

Labels: 9/19, Wollogorang

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Sunday, September 22, 2019

I'm loving just wandering around our garden, lots of lovely colour shining through and enjoying all that rain (240.4mm = 9 1/2. Inches) we've had in three days..

This is my Ghost's Camellia, he must have planted it sometime after 1930 when he built 'Glenwood'. We have lived her since 1971 and this Camellia always grows buds and flowers like these, a bit burnt around the edges. We've sought help from all sorts of people who know about these plants but no luck!

Oh look a little spider??

Labels: Garden

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Photo a Day Challenge - 22.9.2019 - V.

Vera!!!!!!! David's friend Peter always had names for his cars so when David first arrived in the UK and bought his first car, this Vauxhall Wyvern... Peter called it Vera! Here we are preparing to head off for our Honeymoon.

Vera wasn't a good car to go camping in, I had to try and sleep in the front with the steering wheel in my way while David slept in the back... It wasn't long before I suggested we buy one of those old London Taxi's with all that room in the back.

We did buy a London Taxi, four of them in the end spending many long weeks, months and the odd weekend driving off somewhere wonderful and sleeping in luxury! (we turned the back into a big double bed at night) Peter called our Taxi 'Tabitha'. We shipped her home to Australia in 1970 and owned her for 26 years.

Labels: 9/19, Vera

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