Finally a Kookaburra

Just a minute! Here I am. I ‘ve been chuffing along trying to balance work stuff and life stuff. Gawd, I’ve got to practice that. A lot. I am not good at it and I used to be under the delusion that I was fabulous at it, but anyway and anyway again…I always miss the [...]

Spirit of Place

Not too many words today. Instead, I wanted to show you some of the photos
I have taken in the Shire of Murrindindi over the last couple of years. Murrindindi
shire has suffered beyond belief in the bushfires. It is a very large shire and as I
tend to stay in the valleys, I can’t include majestic hillsides, [...]

Orange Whip

About 7.30 am.
The sky looked so beautiful this morning…hotting up…the calm before the storm. Actually, I would like a storm, with sleet and bucketing, gushing rain. What are the odds?

Here it comes again

Melbourne weather!
Last week we had 3, or was it 4, days in the 40’s , lows (ha ha) over-night in the high 20’s. We cooked, we boiled, we swore. My favourite 40+ day was the Thursday, I think, when I felt phantom cool breezes in the late afternoon and had to have a cold [...]

Poor old Pentridge

Interesting combination – a latte in the prison reception building
On Sunday we went to see how historic Pentridge Prison (circa 1851 ) was holding up in the good suburb of Coburg. This site was part of Jeff Kennett’s effort to sell the government assets of the State of Victoria while he [...]

The smell has it

A sign in the back streets of the city.
About three million years ago (OK, last December) lavenderbay suggested I might like to answer this meme. Well, I am slowly catching up with things, so here are some of the smells that come to mind. I haven’t included the usual, house selling, bread baking and [...]

Greening the Ghost Town

Why do I leave for so long, blog? I don’t know but I must have needed the break. Look at the dust here. I had better shake out the curtains, vacuum the stairs and reply to the kind messages people have left for me. Firstly, a very belated happy 2009 to all [...]

moths

“True, you ride the finest horse…”
I found a white moth spinning on the kitchen floor the other day. It was upsidedown, spinning, performing backstroke. Young Belle the cat was just starting to show interest so I rescued the creature. I wasn’t sure at first about touching it although it was quite an elegant beast. I [...]

Four Weeks in the Fairy Ring

Ok, do you want to know what happens when you are tempted and you step right into a fairy ring….you stop blogging apparently. I should be more careful what I name things because in names there is power. Off with the fairies kind of came true.
What has been happening. Bloody lots and nothing at all [...]

Off with the fairies

I could be accused of being ‘off with the fairies’ sometimes. Particularly today, when I am procrastinating rather than doing my work and sitting inside rather than walking in the sun. It is a lovely day out there. Early spring sunshine but still a little chilly.
On the weekend we visited the Fitzroy Gardens. It was [...]