Thursday, March 31, 2022
Photo a Day Challenge - 31.3.2022 - Under a Tree.
There is a young Remy under this beautiful tree up at Ku-ring-gai High School.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Photo a Day Challenge - 30.3.2022 - A Stranger.
Strangers looking inside our old London Taxi while we were in Dollinger, Austria 1969.
Labels: 3/2022PAD, London Taxi
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Feeling like a bit of a 'sillybilly' today, here are somethings I found on FB which gave me a smile.
Labels: Facebook
Photo a Day Challenge - 29.3.2022 - Old Building.
Below the Homestead with no verandah and how I remember this beautiful old building.
Labels: 3/2022PAD, Wollogorang
Monday, March 28, 2022
Photo a Day Challenge - 28.3.2022 - Shop Window.
Labels: 3/2022PAD, Macao, Pennie, Woollahra
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Photo a Day Challenge - 27.3.2022 - A Tree.
One of our many beautiful Gum Trees.
Saturday, March 26, 2022
Found this in News Review of the Sydney Morning Herald this morning, just before David set off for another day of fun Volunteering down at Rozelle!
Photo a Day Challenge - 26.3.2022 - Empty Road.
David on the road to Wollogorang from the Hume Highway... lovely memories.
Labels: 3/2022PAD, David, Wollogorang
Friday, March 25, 2022
Conversation with my brother Tim the other day about these awful Harness Leash things that are put on kids when out walking.
Photo a Day Challenge - 25.3.2022 - Graffiti.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Photo a Day Challenge - 24.3.2022 - Sunbeam.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
No Internet!
I had no idea just how crippling it is when one doesn't have an Internet connection! We lost ours at about 9am this morning, I kept getting messages on my phone from my server telling me the NBN was working to resolve the problem then it wasn't until just after 3pm when it came back to us! Yay! Mmmmm... I know I use the internet a lot but, this felt very uncomfortable, I was doing some writing and wanted to check things online such as... Spelling? Google maps? History dates, Ancestry... all good now thankfully.
Labels: Internet
Photo a Day Challenge - 23.3.2022 - A Leaf.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Sweet Peas... Yay!
I bought three packets of Sweet Peas about a month ago, I like to plant them on Emma's Birthday which just so happens to be St Patricks Day - 17th March.
On the 17th I'd chosen two pots, found two climbers and David had bought me some potting mix.
St Patricks Day came... but... but... I couldn't find my Sweet Peas, David and I looked everywhere, the last time I remember seeing them was in the Office on my desk... but no... we looked outside, looked in the kitchen, sewing room and even in the Garage with no luck.
Then five day later while I was sitting at my desk to check out some bills and so on and...
There they were hiding behind something against the filing cabinet.
Yay!
Looking forward to seeing and smelling some colour this year!
Labels: Garden, Sweet Peas
So when you're fluffing around on Facebook what ya gonna to do when one of these silly things crops up!
Photo a Day Challenge - 22.3.2022 - A Garden.
Monday, March 21, 2022
We don't usually get the Sunday version of the SMH in paper, we get the whole week online but only paper from Monday to Saturday...
... but this week we really needed a paper version, not only is there a really interesting article that Gwilym has contributed to but ...
... David's Big Red Leyland Double Decker Bus is in there as well, it was celebrating the 90th Birthday of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The young Lad who surprised us yesterday with his big HELLO, vanished upstairs a couple of hours after arriving.
Photo a Day Challenge - 21.3.2022 - A Colourful Place.
Nowhere could be more colourful than our Family Room.
Sunday, March 20, 2022
We were just chilling in the garden in the first sunny day since... what feels like forever, Nerys and Charlie had popped in then at about 11am a 7 year old boy with a big smile on his face popped around the corner with a very loud HELLO!
We jumped in surprise then following that young boy were Briony and Kate all from Canberra.
David and I had been asked if we could do a Face Time with James at 11am because he had a school assignment to do which was interviewing his Grandparents about what School was like for them!
Instead of a Facebook Interview they decided to rock up here at 11am!
Jackson and Jess stopped what they were doing and drove around quickly, Tim was out on the water in his canoe but it didn't take long for him to pop in as well.
James interviewing David.
💗💗💗What a beautiful surprise this has been. 💗💗💗
Here are my answers to James Questions.
Pennie’s Schools for James.
- What year did I start school? 1948 - (almost 3yo) Pre-School, Woollahra, Sydney. My parents Ripley and Rosemary ran a Grocery Store and I would be driven to school in a Taxi that had picked up several other children before it got to me. Rosie tells me that I would be looking out the window sadly waving goodbye then when the Taxi started with a jolt myself and all the other children would fall to the floor, no seatbelts back then.
- What was the name of this school? Woollahra Pre-school? I don’t really know.
- What was the name of your teacher (from any year)? The only teacher who’s name I remember was at Queenwood, Balmoral in 1962 when I was in 3rd Year (now called Year 9) My English Teacher was Denise Long who was my first cousin once removed. (very embarrassing)
- What Subjects did I do at school? Don’t remember Primary School, High School English, Maths, Geography, Science, Cooking.
- What did you do during lunch time? In the first few weeks of each new school I used to just sit watching the other kids or I would walk around alone hoping someone would come and talk to me and eventually be my friend. When I had made a friend I think we just sat around and chatted.
- What did I eat at Lunch? Vegemite or Peanut Butter Sandwiches then in High School a Meat Pie from the Canteen if I was lucky.
- What happened when I did the wrong thing? The only time I did something wrong I was given detention which means I had to stay one hour later at school. I was at Queenwood Ladies College in 1962. The thing I did was to take off my hat and my gloves while on the bus on the one hour trip home from Balmoral to Newport… on a very hot day. Another girl on the bus, I don’t know who, must have reported me to the Headmistress the next day.
- What happened if I was late for school? I never was late.
- Did I enjoy school? Why? I loved Kapooka Army Camp School, there were only 26 Pupils in the whole school with one teacher teaching all ages and classes. Just two of us in second class, Penelope Janice Rodd and Peter John Renfrey, we had the same initials and we did enjoy a lot of fun. I loved Willoughby Girls Primary mainly because we lived in a brand new home at 7 Field Regiment, and we had lots of paddocks with a horse and her foal. I also loved Campbelltown Co-ed High because I started in First Year, (now called Year Seven) most of us were new to the school so making friends was pretty easy, I loved doing Science and a higher Mathematics and Cooking. Why Not? Queenwood Ladies College at Balmoral, because I had to drop Science and Mathematics I was told by the headmistress, ’Ladies don’t need Science or Mathematics, they can do Botany and Religion’, This is where my dislike for Religion probably started, we were told if we didn’t pass Religion we wouldn’t be getting our Intermediate Certificate at the end of the year 3. (I deliberately didn’t answer a single Religion question but I still got my Intermediate Certificate.)
- What did you use to write? Pencil in Primary Schools then an Inkwell and a Nib Pen in High School.
Labels: Briony & Kate & James, Charlie, Jackson, Nerys and Tim
Photo a Day Challenge - 20.3.2022 - Something Weird.
These are old advertisements from our old Albion Double Decker Bus, you have to wonder if they had the passengers rushing off to buy one of these products.
Labels: 3/2022PAD, Albion Bus
Saturday, March 19, 2022
40 years ago today we walked over the Sydney Harbour Bridge celebrating 50 years, today they are celebrating 90 years!
The weather wasn't fantastic as you can tell in this photo, Nerys was happy, Tomos and Briony had found a couple of old coins but Gwilym was over it all.
This has to be the worst Human Traffic Jam ever, we had intended walking right across the bridge to Wynard and catching the train home but all the people coming from the north met up with all the people coming from the south about midway and it was one big crush, we decided it would be better to turn around and go back the way we had come and catch the train home from North Sydney.
That afternoon we had a photographer come to take photos of our four lovely children, the photos have been hanging in our hall for 40 years now.
Labels: Sydney Harbour Bridge
