I love taking photos and I love looking at other people’s photos and I’ve decided that to advance my own photographic skills, I need to equip myself with a proper ‘grown ups’ camera of the digital SLR variety – I think! I used to own a Kodak automatic point and shoot. Remember the ones? We […]
Today would have been my lovely Gran’s one hundred and fifth birthday and by way of rememberance, I’d like to share with you the poem I wrote just after she passed away in 2000. I’m not into poetry in any shape or form, in fact in English classes at school, it was my worst nightmare; […]
The weekend is well and truly over and so too the queue of scheduled posts; the pressure is on! Thought I’d share with you just how I’m feeling this week. For just under ten years I was employed by the Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of SA (RA&HS). Sounds mighty grand doesn’t it? I was […]
As soon as I had finished writing yesterday’s post Upping the Ante, I slammed shut my laptop and toodled off to the gym. It’s the same gym chain I was a member of in South Australia, Anytime Fitness and I do my best to go two or three times a week, mixing with walks around […]
Apparently I need to write more; I’ve had some requests to post more often but two things hold me back; time and inspiration. I’m certainly a writer who’s been waiting for inspiration to smack her in the face but apparently that’s all wrong. An article published on the Australian Writers Centre’s Facebook page, by The […]
This week’s challenge is mirror and I took this photograph a few weeks ago in the Japanese Garden in Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha. Originally a display piece of the World Expo of 1988, it was gifted to the city of Brisbane by the Japanese government and relocated to the Mt Coot-tha site after the Expo in […]
My first photo for this weeks theme, Frame, is of Onkaparinga Gorge taken through a hole in the wall at Samuel’s Gorge Winery, McLaren Vale. My second shot is a section of Brisbane CBD captured at the look out at Kangaroo Point. Frame
How timely this Daily Prompt is having turned FIFTY just 8 weeks and 3 days ago. I marked the occasion with a tribute to me – we must celebrate our milestones because there are too many of us who sadly don’t make it this far. You can read my letter to me here.
I found our old childhood book while rummaging through a removal box for something else. The cover was slightly torn but it brought a smile to my face; a well-loved book, Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne. I opened the cover and there on the inside page his name written in blue ink in his unmistakable cursive hand-writing. […]
For the daily post blogging challenge, I give you the Huntsman! This photograph was taken back in October 2006 and although it’s a scary looking Huntsman, it is a beautiful and rare sight to behold. I’d popped outside to put some rubbish in the dustbin, opened back the lid and this was the surprise waiting […]
Waking the Wombat