Monday, November 30, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 30.11.2020 - Tiny People.


 Just some of my Tiny Babushka's.

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Sunday, November 29, 2020

 

Happy 4th Birthday to Mandy.


 Mandy fell out of her nest on this day exactly 4 years ago, Niall found her then David wrapped her up and took her to our local Vets who checked her over and called WIRES who came around and showed us how to look after her.  We made her a new nest with lots of dried grasses in the bottom and watched as her mother attended to her every need and we watched her grow.  

In mid December our family all headed to Hamilton Island for a week and Alda, our next door neighbour let us know that Mandy had flown off, but only a day or two after our return there she was high up in one of our trees saying Hello... with her mother by her side!

Over the months Mandy visited often with Mother watching out for her but in the past two years Mandy has come for a visit on her own, if I don't notice her she calls in a very soft 'Who ha' and enjoys a little nibble of meat.  Such a joy and honour!  


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Photo a Day Challenge - 29.11.2020 - A View.


 Several 'View's' here, these are the Newsletters my Great Uncle John started at Wollogorang with my mother Rosie drawing a lot of the covers.  You can check them out here 'Wollogorang News and Views'.

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Saturday, November 28, 2020

 

Our Baby turns 40 today!! Happy Birthday to you Gwilym.


 We now have 4 babies in their 40's!!  Yay!

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Photo a Day Challenge - 28.11.2020 - Out of Focus.


 Dunno what happened to this photo, it's Pennie and Kisser Kelly and someone's car... ???

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Friday, November 27, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 27.11.2020 - Picture of Me.


 

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Thursday, November 26, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 26.11.2020 - An Edge.


 Some Grandkids doing the Edge of this Puzzle first.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 25.11.2020 - This Season.

This photo may not show us 'This actual Season' but there are some incredible seasonings is this shop at Paddy's Market!
 

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

 

Lovely memories of Rosie my mum, who made these Angels for me when I was in an Angel Mortal Swap in my SCQuilters Group many many moons ago.


 

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Photo a Day Challenge - 24.11.2020 - Serenity.


 Oh the Serenity of a slow walk along the pathway to Shelly Beach.

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Monday, November 23, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 23.11.2020 - Sharp.

 

This is a Grab I took of one of the many many beautiful photos of stone fruit on my friend Kerry's 'Sharp Fruit' Website, I still find it amazing that so much and so many different stone fruits can be grown in Victoria and are available in our shops in Sydney... How lucky are we all eh!

Check them out... Sharp Fruit.

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Sunday, November 22, 2020

 

Lovely to be able to celebrate David's 78th Birthday and Gwilym's 40th Birthday yesterday only half our family this time though.

Oysters, Bugs, Prawns and Crabs were on the menu and I thought... so much cracking open of hard shells so I bought a jar of Crab Meat some Mango's and decided to make up a Crab and Mango Salad which was delicious and received high praise!  I asked for suggestions for the recipe next time, Charlie suggested Avocado which I did buy and just forgot to add and I remembered I thought to add mint but didn't.  This salad didn't need any dressing, the crab meat was juicy as was the delicious mango!  This will be on the menu again one day soon.

The fish shop sliced open the Morton Bay bugs for me which was so much better than trying to do this ourselves, Gwilym added some garlic and butter and they were BBQed on the Kamado.

Briony had already sent David two enormous Octopus along with some other yummy seafood's so Gwilym looked up how to cook them which started with boiling but I didn't see the rest, they were just beautiful.


I very kindly peeled all the Yamba Prawns for the family.

Seriously delicious lunch that's for sure, especially with a little sparkling soda water for me!

 
 
Then there was Dessert, Gwilym requested my Yoghurt, Berries and Toffee Shards. always been a top favourite with our all our family and friends as well and so easy to prepare... well except I have to remember to stay close while making toffee shards, they brown up so quickly.



Pennie, Remy and Jackson... photo taken by Charlie on other side of bench.

Gwilym had a lot of help opening his pressies.

A few Babushkas were played with.

Two beautiful families on their way home after a lovely day.


 

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Happy Birthday to David! 78 today... Wow!


 Can you guess where David is here??

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Photo a Day Challenge - 22.11.2020 - Upside Down.

 There was a lot of Upside Down happening during this wonderful show in Macao back in 2010.



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Saturday, November 21, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 21.11.2020 - This or That.

 

This or That... Prawns or Bugs??  I'll have both thank you

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Friday, November 20, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 20.11.2020 - Starts with T.


 Tabitha the Taxi, a sleep over in the Swiss Alps back in 1970.

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Thursday, November 19, 2020

 

Mr King has come two days in a row now, he is getting a bit cheeky standing on the back of the old tram seat and calling through the window!


 But... of course I attend to his every need with a little native bird seed   😇




 



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Photo a Day Challenge - 19.11.2020 - I went here.


 Right up the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 18.11.2020 - My Favourite Food.


 Oh yes indeed, anytime any day!!  Sushi!

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 17.11.2020 - What I am doing today.


 Chatting with Mr King, such a delight to have this fellow... and sometimes Mrs King as well... pop in for a bit of native seed and a little chat, so friendly 😊

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Monday, November 16, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 16.11.2020 - Something beautiful

 

Love the tiles on the floor of this Cafe in Manly.

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Sunday, November 15, 2020

 

Wow!

Very proud of our Jackson Harry he turned 18, finished his HSC then a week of work experience and he has a Mechanical Apprenticeship with Alfa Romeo, his dream come true.
 

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Photo a Day Challenge - 15.11.2020 - Waves.

Manly.
 

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Saturday, November 14, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 14.11.2020 - Weather Today.


 The Weather today is just beautiful!  and it's not going to be too hot or too cold either, just Perfect.

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Friday, November 13, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 13.11.2020 - Something I can't live without.

... Of course I can live without these superdeliciousyummyyumCho-Choo Bars... but not for long 😛
 

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Thursday, November 12, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 12.11.2020 - Grass.

Love these grasses on our nature strip.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

 

Rememberance Day - We Will Remember Them - Not only today but all through the year.


 1. S.A.Long (G.Grandfather)  T.R.Rodd (G.Uncle)  F.Amphlett (David's G.Uncle)  M.S.Armstrong (Wollogorang)

2. H.M.Bishop (2ndCousin)  R.C.Bishop (2ndCousin)  H.C.Cobcroft (Grandfather)  A.W.Griffiths (David's Grandfather)

3.  E.J.Griffiths (David's G.Uncle)  R.W.Griffiths (David's G.Uncle) J.H.Hogarth (G.Uncle)  S.A.Long (G.Grandfather WW2)

4.  B.B.Rodd (G.Uncle)  C.R.Rodd (Grandfather)  E.Rodd (G.Aunt)  T.M.Atkins (Friend) 

5. J.D.Evans (David's Uncle)  K.B.Evans (David's Uncle) M.E.Griffiths (David's Father)  D.Quiddington (Godfather)

6.  R.C.Rodd (Father)  J.R.Cobcroft (Mother)  C.R.Rodd (Grandfather WW2)  A.H.Cobcroft (Uncle)

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Photo a Day Challenge - 11.11.2020 - This makes me happy.



 I love it when Native visitors arrive,  we're seen this Blue Tongue Lizard a around our pool several times now, we miss Milly our Water Dragon though, haven't seen her for a couple of years now.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 10.11.2020 - Older

This High Chair was once used by my Grandfather Clements Ripley, it was then used by my father Ripley Clements, then myself and my siblings, next came our four children and more recently by many of my Grandchildren, that's Five Generations!  It has been repaired a few times though.

I looked up the history of these chairs and found that they were first built in the years 1890 to 1919 in Austria, I found one for sale in the Netherlands costing A$814 or shipped to Australia A$1,668 it is in better condition than ours is though.  

Below is Penniedarling enjoying a little play out in the sunshine.


 

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Monday, November 09, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 9.11.2020 - A Corner of my Home.


 Pictures painted by my friend Mavis, David's two Double Decker Buses and our Taxi and on the other wall pictures of all the homes my families lived in... 'Nar Vale' Strathfield, 'Wollogorang' Breadalbane,  ''Glenroy', Windsor, Haberfield and 'Cooma Cottage' the home David's mother bought to donate to the National Trust.

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Sunday, November 08, 2020

 

A Mosaic of the four Mosaic's I made this Spring, beautiful colour.


 

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Photo a Day Challenge - 8.11.2020 - Favourite Word.

 PooPooToShirley

 

This word came into my families vocab in the late 1950's.  Our Great Aunt Nancy aka Cranky was a great traveller and not only did she send us kids 100's of postcards from all the different countries she visited she would tell us stories of her experiences when she was home in Aus and this one is the best... well in my honest opinion. 

Cranky and our cousin Sue were on the top deck of a Double Decker bus driving down Park Lane, London when they saw a youngish rather large woman skipping along singing... PooPooToShirley, PooPooToShirley, PooPooToShirley, PooPooToShirley, 

and at the same time lifting her skirts up way above her head. 

I've always loved this story and this word has become one of my most common and favourites. The blog I put together of these 320 Postcards has been archived by the National Library

Postcards from Aunty Cranky

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Saturday, November 07, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 7.11.2020 - Something I do every day.

It's knitting!
 

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Friday, November 06, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 6.11.2020 - Bird.

Mandy calls in every week or so to say hello, she's almost 4 years old now.
 

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Thursday, November 05, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 5.11.2020 - In the Middle.

I typed 'Middle' in my iPhotos and these are three of the photos that came up...here is our father Ripley Clements in the middle of every photo.


 

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