Thursday, March 14, 2024
Photo a Day Challenge - 14.3.2024 - Symmetry.
Tuesday, January 09, 2024
Photo a Day Challenge - 9.1.2014 - An Entrance.
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Photo a Day Challenge - 26.7.2023 - F is for...
Thursday, June 30, 2022
PAD June is 'Grateful Month' 30.6.2022 - How very lucky are we all.
Labels: 6/2022PAD, Friends, Griffiths Family, Rodd Island
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Photo a Day Challenge - 26.1.2022 - Water.
Labels: 1/2022 PAD, Rodd Island
Friday, January 07, 2022
Photo a Day Challenge - 7.1.2022 - Word to live by.
This is tricky, just one word?
Featured snippet from the webPhantasmagorical describes something with a dreamlike, fantastical, unreal, deceptive, or shifting appearance, like an optical illusion. Phantasmagorical is a big and relatively uncommon word, and you may encounter it more often in literary or learned contexts than in everyday conversatioI do love seeing this sign when arriving home.
For 2022 I would say... Wecandoit! but is this word in the Dictionary? maybe I should ask David Astle from Letters and Numbers or Susie Dent from Countdown.
Then here's another that I made up many years ago and still love... Fantasmorgorigal!
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Labels: 1/2022 PAD, Griffiths Family, Rodd Island
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Photo a Day Challenge - 31.10.2021 - I believe...
I believe in Family.
Here are the bestest and loveliest people on the planet! Gosh how many are here ? more than 50 back in 2012 on Rodd Island to Farewell Rip'n'Rosie... today I think there would be over 60.
Labels: 10/21.PAD, Family, Rodd Island
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Photo a Day Challenge - 27.4.2021 - Path.
One of my favourite Paths is this one, once off the boat we head up the path on Rodd Island.
Labels: 4/21PAD, Rodd Island
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Photo a Day Challenge - 27.1.2021 - A Path.
Friday, October 23, 2020
Photo a Day Challenge - 23.10.2020 - An Empty Table.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Photo a Day Challenge - 19.8.2020 - What Happiness looks like.
Labels: 8/2020, Rodd Island
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Photo a Day Challenge - 16.8.2020 - I Value...
Labels: 8/2020, Cobcrofts, Rodd Island
Thursday, July 09, 2020
I have it on good authority that my last post of what I thought was a Fort on Rodd Island is incorrect! Lots of Photos here.
Labels: Rodd Island
Photo a Day Challenge - 9.7.2020 - Building
Labels: 7/2020, Rodd Island
Monday, April 27, 2020
Photo a Day Challenge - 27.4.2020 - Month of Gratitude.
Labels: 4/2020, Family, Rodd Island
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Photo a Day Challenge - 19.12.2019 - Joy is...
Labels: 12/19, Griffiths Family, Rodd Island
Monday, September 09, 2019
Photo a Day Challenge - 9.9.2019 - I.
Here is an Island in Sydney Harbour named after my paternal family - Rodd Island.
Below, 2018 the last of many visits we've made to the Island usually to celebrate some family events.
Labels: 9/19, Rodd Island
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Photo a Day Challenge - 30.3.2019 - Park.
Labels: 3/19, Rodd Island
Sunday, August 05, 2018
Photo a Day Challenge - 5.8.2018 - Sunshine
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
During our 'Noughtie Party' on Rodd Island last Sunday we got everyone together for a Group photo... a Rodd tradition... while we had a captured audience David and I did a little Chat.
By Special Request from a couple of friends who were right up the back and didn't quite hear what we were chatting about.
Sunday 8th July 2018 - 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration Chat.
Pennie.
Our 50 years of marriage has involved a lot of luck, a lot of hard work and compromise with a lot of way out totally wacky plans and ideas.
David.
We met at Wollogorang a sheep station near Goulburn, fell in love with different people until we got over them and saw each other as potential partners, my marriage proposal from England along the lines of... 'Why don't you come over and we'll get married or something?' clinched the deal and most of you know the rest.
Pennie.
We have such different tastes in so many things such as foods, he likes his well cooked while she likes hers lightly cooked or raw, he enjoys a good drink be it wine, beer, tea or coffee, she doesn't, but she does enjoy jumping into a cold pool for a swim while he doesn't!
David.
When first married she suggested we have 6 children, I suggested 2... so 4 was the compromise.
I guess compromise, compassion, supporting and sharing has played a big part over these 50 years, I have my hobbies such as playing with buses, she has her's making quilts and writing... all of which our family love to be involved with.
Pennie.
What we are both the most proud of is how fantastically we have bought up our four children, there has been some threats, such as 'sitting on them' if they don't do as told, there have been some lies such as Underwater Chicken (which is really fish), there has been bribery as well but we won't go into that right now. Then there was teaching them to say 'Please Mummydarling, I love you very much... ' which turned into Penniedarling from nieces and nephews and now Grandchildren.
David.
One of our aims has been to try to ruin each child's life. Not once were they taken on holiday to Hawaii, although we did spend a day there on our way home from England in 1978, but they wouldn't get off the ship, the playroom on the 'Oriana' was just too good.
Nerys tells us we ruined her life by not letting her watch American junk TV such as 'Love Boat' and 'Bay Watch'.
Tomos tells his friends that we ruined his life by not letting him see 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' when he was 8 years old.
Briony's life was ruined because we never took her skiing as some of her more prosperous friends parents did.
Gwilym knows we tried to ruined his life but he can't remember right now...
But we tried to show them a good time by taking them on long trips in our Double Decker Bus, all over the State and 5 years running to the Burleigh Heads caravan park which we all loved.
Pennie.
One by one and twice in their lives we have tried to kick our children out of Home and Country, the first time was when they turned 11. During their Summer School Holidays we put them on a plane all by themselves and sent them to America for four weeks to go to school there and stay with friends of ours. Then when they turned 18 we kicked them out once again to Europe to stay and work for friends... but hey... they still keep coming back so we must have done something right!
David.
We are so proud of all our children, they have kept out of jail for a start... plus each and every one of them has chosen partners that have blended into our family so well and are all so easy to love. When they are all together we watch with pride as each and everyone of them chats away while preparing food, or cleaning up, playing games with the children or just hanging... holidays together are the best times ever. Then to see them all volunteering through their children's schools, sports teams or through community is a joy to be proud of as well.
Pennie.
... then there are our Grandchildren!
Very Big Sigh... 8 kids aged from almost 16 down to 2 years of age, living in different States and Countries makes together times eagerly looked forward to by every single one of them... watching and playing sport together, playing card games together, enjoying Double Decker bus rides, and sleep overs, then watching Pennie's YouTube Channel with little movies of the much younger them. These are all very happy and noisy events.
Seeing the older Grandchildren looking after the younger ones and the younger ones looking after the youngest is a delight, they never need to be asked they just do it and they all blend in so well. I once asked them individually if there had been any fights or cross words and they just looked at me as I was weird... No???
It's also been delightful seeing how well my daughter Susan has blended into the family.
David.
It has occurred to me in recent years that there has been a huge amount of good luck in our lives. I don't mean clever plans coming good; just lucky breaks, a lot of pleasant surprises and some lucky escapes. We give thanks for the way the cards fall!
And most important... All you need is Love! Which Pennie has in armfuls and has taught by example.
Pennie.
Our 50 years of marriage has involved a lot of luck, a lot of hard work and compromise with a lot of way out totally wacky plans and ideas.
David.
We met at Wollogorang a sheep station near Goulburn, fell in love with different people until we got over them and saw each other as potential partners, my marriage proposal from England along the lines of... 'Why don't you come over and we'll get married or something?' clinched the deal and most of you know the rest.
Pennie.
We have such different tastes in so many things such as foods, he likes his well cooked while she likes hers lightly cooked or raw, he enjoys a good drink be it wine, beer, tea or coffee, she doesn't, but she does enjoy jumping into a cold pool for a swim while he doesn't!
David.
When first married she suggested we have 6 children, I suggested 2... so 4 was the compromise.
I guess compromise, compassion, supporting and sharing has played a big part over these 50 years, I have my hobbies such as playing with buses, she has her's making quilts and writing... all of which our family love to be involved with.
Pennie.
What we are both the most proud of is how fantastically we have bought up our four children, there has been some threats, such as 'sitting on them' if they don't do as told, there have been some lies such as Underwater Chicken (which is really fish), there has been bribery as well but we won't go into that right now. Then there was teaching them to say 'Please Mummydarling, I love you very much... ' which turned into Penniedarling from nieces and nephews and now Grandchildren.
David.
One of our aims has been to try to ruin each child's life. Not once were they taken on holiday to Hawaii, although we did spend a day there on our way home from England in 1978, but they wouldn't get off the ship, the playroom on the 'Oriana' was just too good.
Nerys tells us we ruined her life by not letting her watch American junk TV such as 'Love Boat' and 'Bay Watch'.
Tomos tells his friends that we ruined his life by not letting him see 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' when he was 8 years old.
Briony's life was ruined because we never took her skiing as some of her more prosperous friends parents did.
Gwilym knows we tried to ruined his life but he can't remember right now...
But we tried to show them a good time by taking them on long trips in our Double Decker Bus, all over the State and 5 years running to the Burleigh Heads caravan park which we all loved.
Pennie.
One by one and twice in their lives we have tried to kick our children out of Home and Country, the first time was when they turned 11. During their Summer School Holidays we put them on a plane all by themselves and sent them to America for four weeks to go to school there and stay with friends of ours. Then when they turned 18 we kicked them out once again to Europe to stay and work for friends... but hey... they still keep coming back so we must have done something right!
David.
We are so proud of all our children, they have kept out of jail for a start... plus each and every one of them has chosen partners that have blended into our family so well and are all so easy to love. When they are all together we watch with pride as each and everyone of them chats away while preparing food, or cleaning up, playing games with the children or just hanging... holidays together are the best times ever. Then to see them all volunteering through their children's schools, sports teams or through community is a joy to be proud of as well.
Pennie.
... then there are our Grandchildren!
Very Big Sigh... 8 kids aged from almost 16 down to 2 years of age, living in different States and Countries makes together times eagerly looked forward to by every single one of them... watching and playing sport together, playing card games together, enjoying Double Decker bus rides, and sleep overs, then watching Pennie's YouTube Channel with little movies of the much younger them. These are all very happy and noisy events.
Seeing the older Grandchildren looking after the younger ones and the younger ones looking after the youngest is a delight, they never need to be asked they just do it and they all blend in so well. I once asked them individually if there had been any fights or cross words and they just looked at me as I was weird... No???
It's also been delightful seeing how well my daughter Susan has blended into the family.
David.
It has occurred to me in recent years that there has been a huge amount of good luck in our lives. I don't mean clever plans coming good; just lucky breaks, a lot of pleasant surprises and some lucky escapes. We give thanks for the way the cards fall!
And most important... All you need is Love! Which Pennie has in armfuls and has taught by example.
Labels: David and Pennie 50th Wedding Anniversary, Rodd Island
