Year: 2018

Today with various hats from my various lives I:Washed the French windows in the house,Vacuumed and mopped the floors,Ironed sheets and made all the beds, as lotsa boys coming,Did the washing and the ironing as lots more next week,Dusted all those bits my lovely male cleaner doesn’t,Swept the yard back and front,Polished some silver,Planted spinach…

So I have risen to the elevated status of Dumpster Diver according to my lovely Aussie neighbour Russ. Last week a house up the road was being cleared to make room for renovations and new tenants. A skip sat outside it. As I walked past, Russ came out from behind it with a sheepish grin…

Its been a lovely week and weekend. As the new one starts I sit at my desk. There above me is a Campari and Soda bottle carefully brought back from Italy in the summer, bearing wild orchids now, the kind that Brisbane gardens seem to have an abundance of, and just behind, my Birthday card…

Photo courtesy of Creative Brisbane.  Today is her last show and I cannot let her go without saying what an astonishing performance Noni Hazlehurst gave in “Mother” which is on at the Cremorne Theatre, QPAC. If you get a chance see this play which was written by Daniel Keene and directed and co produced by…

He/ She was curled up in a little ball by our garden fence. We knew not all was well because, there it was in the daylight and sluggish in its movements, so as any animal lover would do we immediately identified the nearest vet, wrapped it up in a towel with history, and set off.…

I have just done a post about Ekka, the agricultural show that is on every year at this time in Brisbane. This year’s highlight for me must be the crazy, mad, bad hair day- good hair day, fancy my feathers poultry group comprising backyard chickens, colloquially known here as “chooks”, bantams, cocks, cockerels, turkeys and…

This is a time in the year which I enjoy a lot, not only because the temperatures are cool and the skies a deep blue but because this is when country comes to town. So much of what makes Australia is because of all the farmers out there, be they beef farmers or vegetable and…

The island is celebrating this month and a festival is being held near Point Lookout.  I came across this blackfella, though he is largely white, he is a direct descendant of one of the most famous people born on Stradbroke island. Kath Walker who was a well known poet, activist and environmentalist.He told me all about the two…

Seas teeming with fish and turtles, dolphin pods and whales coming up for air. They were more difficult to capture on camera other than as blips in the ocean but your eyes, thankfully, are never confined to one species or one area. So white bellied sea eagles floated by, as did some surfers on a…

Off to the beautiful Stradbroke Island just a short distance from the mainland by ferry. Pristine beaches and bushland. Today I am taken by the lines I see on my lens. Grassy outcrop on a undulating ocean. The line of rock, grass, sea in full vision where every wave which towered up was full –…