Your windmill could use some help Copago!

haha - yes it could. Storm got hold of it one night. Makes the scariest creaking noise now. The tank is right near the house so we got an electric pump and can run a cord across.

All together now! "Awww, isn't he cute!"



Although it is unusual to find a koala in the wild in Sydney, it is not unknown. There are several areas where they roam freely. This is not one of them- I found him in a wildlife park just up the road from my home.

awwwwwwwww!

What a cutie, ozzz!

Satguru, your pic reminds me of the song 'In a country churchyard ...', it's exactly the sort of image that those particular lyrics always inspired in my thoughts.

Here's another photo from our hike through the fields, an interesting looking branch:

Some places are always photogenic wherever they are, and graveyards appear to be one. Here are the yucca palms in the centre of Esher, and despite my views on the climate were never seen in the country outside the SW until about 20 years ago

more web and gumnuts

Ill be on those trams in a couple of days. Hooray! Sushi and the markets here I come.

Resurfacing work was being done on the road outside our drive. This is what my wheel looked like after driving on it, then going up our 100 meters or so driveway.



er um ... stop looking at the dirt and scratches

ugh that's a nice mess!

Here is my local council stating the bloody obvious once again. They are very good at it.


But I'm afraid to say the council does have to do it sometimes, there was one man, last time it flooded, that did try to get across it. He camped three days there before someone came across him.

The Council doesn't look after the paths and borders very well down our way. Sometimes though, I think this is a good thing. Nature runs wild and it reminds me of when I was a child around here before 'neat and tidy' was fashionable. Ah well, there's me looking back again. I am reminded of these times by this photo. It was taken at the beginning of this afternoon's off-road (mostly) cycle ride.

My teenage kids were very impressed by the cake I made for my youngest for his birthday a year or two ago. Adolescent they may be, but they begged and begged me to make two of these cakes last night so that they can share them at their class parties for the end of term today. How could I refuse?

A statue of Miguel de Cervantes

Seen earlier this week in the pretty town of Bourg-en-Bresse, France, can anyone translate the wording on this plaque on the wall of the Hotel de Bohan?
I know it's something about cavalry and ironwork

The text could be translated as follows:

Constructed around 1730
Property of a family of Cavalry officers
of the 18th Century
Facade in the regency style
Alternating curved and triangular pediments ('frontons')
Louis 15th Ironware
Today houses the Lord Mayor and his Councellors

A bit of suburbia in Highgate complete with bus

What a wonderful lot of photos. The Road Closed sign made me laugh, and that wonderful cake made my mouth water!

This evening, Precious and Buddy faced-off under the watchful eye of Tigger, from behind the door.

ha! Great photo, Liz! Who won the standoff??

Here is a shell I found this morning - it reminded me of that sea snail that Dr Dolittle sailed in in the Rex Harrison version .. although a million times smaller

Oh, yes, you are right about the shell! Great pic!

The standoff was pretty much a draw, in the end, they actually like one another

An impressive house and garden in Stanmore

The Elgin & District pipe band, going down the main street of Garmouth today. The occasion being the Maggie Fair, the oldest of it's kind in the North of Scotland, that started in 1587.

track graded for a new fence going up

Another proper road sign complete with its stripy pole. You'd look old and shabby if you'd been left outside for around 50 years without a wash as well...

The swing bridge over the Caledonian canal on the south side of Inverness, in the process of opening.

bit cold here this morning

A butterfly roof from the 60s in Stanmore

I am so thrilled to see all the water photos Jillian, after so much drought around Copago it is just wonderful to see.

With that lake filled up on the neighbours we have so much water backed up we are going to buy a jetski LOL

This is my boy's dog, Jess. She jumps a lot.

I love the shadow! What a fun dog.

I was thinking its a bit crazy!