Joining in with Elephant's Child, River and others for Sunday Selections. These are mostly my photos and a few others have taken.
I can't remember where I came across this painting but I saved it just because I like it. I guess it is Japanese.
The lovely Mama Seka with a gaggle of gays entourage.
This statement at the ABC News website is simply not true. "
Mama Seka, operator of Melbourne's first gay establishment the Key Club, pictured with Michael Jarmyn and Paul Mathews from The Laird which opened as a 'men's bar' in the 1980s." It was not the first gay bar in Melbourne.
Here's one for
Perth Daily Photo's Grace and the other Perth blogger I follow,
Sami. The tram is at Barrack Street Jetty, I guess in the 1950s. I doubt the location is recognisable now.
I pondered aloud to R what Princess Dianna would look like at sixty, a birthday she would have recently celebrated had she lived. Sure enough, someone had a try and it is close to believable.
Just a photo of some happy and cheerful old duck wearing a nice hat, twin set and pearls. She is getting on and the day will come when republicans and royalists alike will be shattered. She still drives, recently driving herself clad with her driving head scarf to Frogmore Cottage to see Prince Harry. I wonder if she muttered to herself when caught in London traffic, I should have caught The Tube.
It was very wet in Gippsland area of Victoria a few weeks ago, floods even. Spiders know what to do in such weather. They make webs, well up off the ground. The next time you walk into a spider web, be thankful it wasn't one of these. I wish I could credit these astonishing photos of astonishing things creatures do.
Those damn gladdies again blocking my view.
Well, it is nice to record history but if the house was forty metres west of here, why not put the plaque there? Next time I am in the area, I might just step out forty metres to see where the house was.
I've seen everything now. Tap and pay for a kids car ride.
Care for a little gin?
While we see lots of bird life at home, it is years since I have seen a case moth, let alone the pupa out of the case. It was in the most unlikely place, the Prahran Square metal drinking fountain.
Speaking of Prahran Square, this display was briefly in place for about a week. I believe it came alive at night with amazing lighting.
At Footscray Station is a 'comfort station' for dogs. There's drinking water, a green mat to deposit their business, a bin with bags to dispose of their business and it is secure so they won't be harassed by other dogs.
A phalanx of phallicism taken from Southbank.
It was still Autumn and the elm trees were beginning the process of dropping their leaves.
Not dress to impress. Police uniforms take into account looking authoritative when they are designed. Victoria Police changed theirs from dark blue to black.
Her name is not
Miriam Margolyes.
Today, Sunday is Jo's 14th birthday. Sister is taking her to see the matinee performance of the musical Frozen, delayed for many months by you know what. Sister will leave her car here and return for afternoon tea before they head home. Sister gave us a birthday gift list. We bought Jo a string of LED lights, I guess for her bedroom and a stylus for whatever device she uses. The LED lights were available at the Kmart department store. I went to the one in Richmond as there is none other nearby. The shelves were bare of many things, including the lights.
On Tuesday R went for lunch to Warrandyte with a former workmate and stopped off at a large Kmart on the way and bought the lights. But before that when we were checking on our phones, the website was saying there was one in the city, in Bourke Street. Nah, there isn't one in the city. When we visited the city for haircuts, we went to investigate the address and to our astonishment, the Target department store had changed to being a Kmart. I headed straight for sock rack to see if the socks I buy were still stocked, and they aren't. At $24 for 3 pair, they were expensive but they were really good. Damn! And I don't even remember the brand.
R spotted a couple of tee shirts he liked and tried them on the fitting room. I took this photo in an adjacent fitting room. I think one hook should be named, 'Not until I lose weight'.