We took a few days off to go back to Canberra. Since COVID and since my husband no longer works for the Department of Social Services, we haven’t had to travel there. Which is sad, because the place has really grown on me. This it the reason we went: my…
Turtle-dumping? Let me tell you a horrible story that fortunately has a good ending. I don’t like our neighbours. We’re still on speaking terms and they wouldn’t know that I didn’t like them, but there are little things. Like that they “take liberties” with our garden. If they see something,…
Here are some pictures of spring flowers I’ve taken over the last few weeks in the Lane Cove National Park. They’re all common flowers around Sydney.
May to October is the whale watching season off Sydney. This year has been a good (a whale of a?) year. We went out on one of the whale watching boats last Sunday. The ocean was alive with whales and dolphins. It was also very choppy, which made for a…
Slowly working through all the photos. We stayed in Vegas for one night, as you will have seen in the previous post, and the next day left to go north. Where the main road goes through a narrow pass, it started to get cold, and then it got colder, and…
In the previous post, I already said that we enjoyed Death Valley a lot. We stayed overnight in Beatty, just outside the park boundary, and when we got the park ticket, they said it was valid for three days. We were not meant to be in Las Vegas until in…
So. When I returned from the US two weeks ago, it seemed that I took a little nasty passenger called a chest infection and I’ve only just recovered. I promised to post some pictures, so here is the first lot. I have no idea how many there will be. First…
