These are random bits and pieces that have been hanging around and around. Why not post them, yes.
I passed this fungi a year ago, and I remember being startled by my companion’s observation that an overseas friend had believed that all Australian fungi are edible. Oh, no, no, no. Luckily, they were warned.
Did you ever go mushroom picking? I remember mushroom picking as a child. I was more interested in the strange sight of bones in the unfenced acres, than learning to read the beautiful big mushrooms growing on the dung.
Your grocer sells them.
No they don’t. I have never had a banana cream biscuit, then again, I have never been a flapper either. Swallow and Ariel was a Melbourne based biscuit company, eventually dominated in the 1960′s by Arnotts. Was this when the banana cream disappeared? This photo was taken one Grand Final day in a Fitzroy pub. I can’t think of the name of the pub, but it will come to me. I don’t get much out of football, but on grand final day I can manage to sit in a pub, and share a beer with those who do.
Not my shoes, not my beer. Probably GF day again. Says something about GF day.
This is what all the fuss is about. An intriguing Melbourne view, in this case, in Elizabeth Street. Newmans, was it the chocolate Newmans, I wonder? Funny, the signs that survive.
I saw this in the middle of the drought. I remember at the time longing for this statement, command, plea to come true. This year, so much rain. It would be a relief if it wasn’t for the floods causing suffering elsewhere.
A comfy bench by Coburg lake.
An enchanted moment curtesy of light, willow and creek.
I think I can remember Banana Creams. They tasted like banana flavoured medicine we were given for something, not nice.
I’ve always assumed the sign did refer to Newman’s Chocolate.
The creek is running a banker.
Hi Andrew,
Those biscuits sound horrible. Now you mention it, I think I remember banana flavoured medicine, the taste of it. Yes, the creek was running high. The photo was taken a few days after one of those big rain events we had.
Ewww, banana flavoured creams/medicine put me off banana-anything for a looooong time.
Love the seat by Coburg Lake :)
Hi Jayne,
Yes, and considering the price of real bananas, they might be tipping that flavouring into smoothies. Yukko. Isn’t it a lovely seat! It just suits the spot beautifully.
We have some of those old painted brick signs here, too. Sometimes they end up being revealed when a neighbouring building is torn down, revealing an ad from the early 20th century.