True Colours Thursday - PEACH

Hope this is peachy enough (hunted all over the house & didn't find anything peach colour. To check out more PEACH go here.

The Wednesday What's It

Following on from yesterdays post I have started making postcards with used stamps.

This one for Mo. Anyone else?

Some stamps to choose from.

Today's Flowers #48

Australian Flower Stamps
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Mellow Yellow Monday #27

I'm cool & mellow, man. Just hanging around waiting for the sun to go down.
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Talking ‘bout BOOKS

Book of the month: ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’ is taking me quite a while to get into.
I finished ‘The Reader’ by Bernhard Schlink last week, found part 2 more interesting than part 1.
Very brief today. My biorhythms say "mediocre - declining & getting worse"!!!
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Saturdays Birds

Digging up the past - again! Trafalgar Square looks like it was getting a bit of a makeover. Year was about 1949. OMG that's 60 years ago!!!

Sky Watch Friday #52

True Colours Thursday - Navy Blue

OK, OK, Ebony is black but the chair is NAVY & the jumper has some NAVY in it. Very difficult to write this as I am now sitting on the chair & Ebony is on my lap. I have the jumper on as it is cold here!
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The Wednesday What's It

Today a friend reminded me of Roger Bannister & I dug out this photo. It shows him with Chris Chataway & Chris Brasher coming from Buckingham Palace & I am in the crowd (black coat, long rolled umbrella). I wrote to them all in 1999 asking if they could tell me when it was – they all wrote handwritten replies, snail mail. Sir Roger saying it was a petition to Winston Churchill to launch a campaign to raise money for a charity called the Historic Churches Preservation Trust.

Today's Flowers #47

Right out of flowers today - here is one I did earlier - put in my scrapbook in 1941. Yes folks 1941


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Mellow Yellow Monday #26

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Talking ‘bout BOOKS

I picked up ‘GRASSHOPPER’ by Barbara Vine for two reasons, one because I enjoyed ‘ASTA’S BOOK’ published in 1993, the other, I once lived in Maida Vale, London. Did I enjoy it? Not as much as I thought. Intriguing, interesting & different, it jumped about a bit too much.
Now it’s on to ‘The READER’ by Bernhard Schlink (on loan from a friend). More on the book next Sunday.

Waiting by the bedside is a little night reading, two cooking books, ‘The Shifting Fog’ by Kate Morton, ‘my Life as Me’ by Barry Humphries (from the library).A Barbara Kingsolver omnibus ($4 op shop buy) & ‘Thanks for the Memories’ by Cecelia Ahern ($2 op shop buy).

Saturdays Birds

Seed pecking before the doves get to it!

Sky Watch Friday #51

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True Colours Thursday - Lemon

Pears - Bananas & LEMONS
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The Wednesday What's It

To follow up on yesterday, here are some more shoes I coloured.

Today's Flowers #46

2 yellow flowers/weeds with shoes.
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Mellow Yellow Monday #25

Had my car serviced today.

Talking ‘bout BOOKS

‘Dark Places’ by Kate Grenville was chewed, digested and spat out by me last Thursday.
Back cover quote – ‘Kate Grenville has written a disturbing, shocking and darkly funny novel that resonates in the mind with the truth of great writing. Dark Places is a literary triumph’.
Disturbing? Yes. Shocking? Yes. Darkly funny? Dark, yes, funny, no.
Great writing and literary triumph ? Possibly.

Albion Gidley Singer - a despicable lump of human flesh.
I suppose most of us women have come across men like this, a real gentleman on the outside but not worry about a grope or more in the stockroom or back office. I know I have. Hopefully they never sank to the depths Albion Gidley Singer did.
I like to read books for enjoyment and I didn’t enjoy this one little bit although I must say I will not forget reading it (which is more than I can say for some of the books on my list!).

On to the next book – ‘Grasshopper’ by Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell, I have never even wanted to read a Ruth Rendell book so I was very surprised to find this out!).
Picked up from the library on Friday, on reading the back cover and finding out the novel is set in Maida Vale, London. Very grasshopper like in the way it is written, jumping all over place and time. Intriguing.
More next Sunday.

Saturdays Birds

A few days ago all looked a bit gloomy and the kookaburra came to say rain was on the way. And was he/she right!!! Lovely rain. Does the garden a power of good.

Sky Watch Friday #50

Yanchep Lagoon.
It looks a bit chilly, don't think I'll go for a dip. (Haven't put even my toe in since April!)
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True Colours Thursday - MAROON

Not sure if beetroot is exactly what you would call maroon but near enough I think. These little beauties and the baby carrots came from a place called paradise not far away.
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The Wednesday What's It

Mmmmmm what is the date? Ebony not sure!

Today's Flowers #45

The last of the Geraniums - winter is upon us.

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Beside the Seaside

Check out this xylophone here and here Don't forget to turn your sound up!
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Mellow Yellow Monday #24

An Op shop buy a tin of Simpsons for $3
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Talking ‘bout BOOKS

Finished reading 'The Forgotten Garden', an enjoyable book by Kate Morton. Nice easy read you just want to curl up with, especially when you're not feeling the best.
Not so the book I'm reading at the moment, 'Dark Places' by Kate Grenville, although I must say she depicts the main character extremely well. A despicable lump of human flesh, very sad really.
I spent most of the weekend making a list of books I still own, see LibraryThing, as well as a list of some of the books I have read. See here

Saturdays Birds

Sky Watch Friday #49

In the days before the BIG blow.
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True Colours Thursday - Black & Tan.

Thung with his nose in the air alongside Scottie & Four Eyes.

The Wednesday What's It

I want one of these!!!
Check out this website Pomegranatephone and see how it becomes a coffeemaker, a shaver, and even a harmonica. Brought to my notice by Violet Sky.

Today's Flowers #44

Not sure if these are buds, flowers or seed pods! Must go back for another visit & see what has changed.
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Mellow Yellow Monday #23

Another shopping mall view.

Talking ‘bout BOOKS

Not much to talk about really! A couple of very light reads.I have been laid up most of last week so reading was the thing I enjoyed most.
Finished reading Relative Love & agree with Caroline see Books at Whats happening....
Have just started The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. Apart from jumping from 1913 to 2005 & 1976 & back again (every chapter) I am enjoying it very much.

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Saturdays Birds

The Carnabys left the sky & descended onto the gum tree in the back garden & proceeded to rip it up. Mustn't grumble as they are very precious. more info on birds australia

Sky Watch Friday #48

Join the dots? A flight of black Carnaby Cockatoos, making more noise than a jet aircraft!

True Colours Thursday - IVORY

The best I could come up with was 'dried flowers' & 'plaster of paris'.
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The Wednesday What's It

So there is light at the end of the tunnel. Beneath Perth.

Today's Flowers #43

Hydrangea - Hydrangea with large white, pink or blue flowers.[from Greek hudor 'water' + aggos 'vessel from the cup shape of its seed capsule]
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Mellow Yellow Monday #22

Have no idea what this tree/bush is!!

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Talking ‘bout BOOKS

The next Book Club choice - not too sure if it's going to be a book I can read last thing at night. May have to find an 'easy' read.

Saturdays Birds

You may have to 'click on pic' to see the magpie looking at the twenty eight.

Sky Watch Friday #47

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True Colours Thursday - PURPLE

Chilly weather (it is winter, after all!)so that's the reason for the scarf.
signed Mr. D.S.

The Wednesday What's It

What is it all about? This breeding of Beanie Kids!
I suppose it could be laying around in confined spaces......

Today's Flowers #42

The bush next door.

Mellow Yellow Monday #21

High winds & torrential rain led to leaks in the new shopping mall.

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