Self portrait

I have done mine, now let's see your efforts!

Bird Feeder

Two daily visitors to my garden. They have worked and worked to get this seed bell down, and they have triumphed.

We have a lot of birds, just not all at the same time. A Great Tit feeding from the fat balls and the pigeons looking on.

The skill of holding the cup under a cat trying to balance between cat cup and hand went out in the 20th century. See pic to see how things are done today in the 21st century.

( I hope theres nothing wrong with Soma )

My junk mail

This arrived this arvo in my junk mail. Here it is, as it was delivered, all in one greak chunk. Read on....

Hello my new friend. What's your name? I search for the Love. I'm young and modern therefore I use the help of the Internet. I have found your profile in a global network... It's great:)! I with pleasure write to you the letter. Well, my name is Elena I live in great city Saint-Petersburg in Russia. I have lovely parents. They live near with Saint-Petersburg. I the favourite daughter of the parents. They love me most of all in a life. It's great. I studied at university. I finished it 7 years ago. After university I have started out an independent life. I very sincere and sociable woman therefore I have a lot of friends. We like to spend time cheerfully.I like to smile. I love the sun. My friends joking have nicknamed me "a smile of the sun". I easily find common language with people. I trust in the good future. You like optimistical people? What do you think about it? As any normal person I have work. I work in an advertising department of brewing company " Baltic " I do the business with a smile. I love my work. I am able to work. I am able to do money. I have perspective ideas. I the big expert in advertising activity and in management of the organizations. I rent an apartment in the city not far from my work. Well, I can long tell about smiles, about the sun, about work, about leisure and hobbies. I shall not do it. I wish to tell you about " a another side of my life " It may seem that I have everything to live happily but it is not so! Of course I have a success with men. I have many admirers. I know that I beautiful and clever. I communicated with many men. It was interesting but I did not love them. I loved only one man but he has deceived me.Since then I do not trust Russian men. Also In past time I see my friends not often. They are borrowed on work. They have found the family happiness. I am sincerely glad for them. As for me I have problems with finding a boyfriend and love of all my life. Many of them lie and don't hold his word. Some men drink alcohol very much. Some men want to date with me but I don't like them, the men I would like to date with are already married or have serious relationship with other women! That is terrible! I do not represent the life without the favourite person. It not a life this existence. I am lonely in an environment of friends. I do not have not enough person to which I would give all love. I am disappointed in the country. I do not trust Russian men. I not badly speak in English that is why I decided to search all over the English speaking world :):):) I do believe that it is possible to meet my special one on internet! Many women met their soulmates abroad and they are very happy with them. Why not?!?! For example my girlfriend Tamara find her husband on internet in five year ago. The most interesting in that that she cannot hear and speak. He too. As a result of accident she became the invalid. She my best girlfriend. She move to Australia and they have happy family. She write to me letter often. She invites me to Australia for a long time. Well, what else to tell you about me?! My parents have good money. My earned payment too not small. I can pay for all life expenses. And I will not ask you help me with money. I know many stories about it. If you will write to me more, you will understand, that I am not such woman! I need serious relationship, I don't want to have a penpal. I have much love to give and I need somebody loves me also. I don't want to ask you many questions, just write me about yourself as I did. And of course feel free to ask questions! I hope, you can send me your MSN address and we will talk, when I will have time. I will like to see you photo with each letter. Write to me on my e-mail.Have a nice day! Sincerely Elena.

Tassie Hurricane Warning

When I first heard this i thought its an april fools joke one day late. But its no joke the southern states are being battered at winds reaching 137km. Click the link to read and see the video.

You Were a Snake

You have a primal energy that drives you to explore the mysteries of life.A nearly immortal soul, you'll live a very long life.

I was a Mouse

You Were a Mouse

You quietly examine life's lessons and see multiple meanings in things. You are also good at discovering details and remaining in the background.

What Animal Were You In a Past Life?

A Cougar eh! I love the little mouse, he is so sweet.

You Were a Cougar

You are a great leader who has dominance without ego. You are wickedly cunning and off the scale confident.

What Animal Were You In a Past Life?

who is it ,

My father's book - at last!

I nagged dad for 4 years to publish his autobiography, and he very nearly did, dying before he was able to complete it, sadly.

I promised dad I would complete his journey and publish it, and so I have, after 4 long years of editing and indecision on how to complete the book...
"....and then he died.......argh..."

Anyway, it's now published on glossy paper (for the photos) and looks (and feels) great. I am very happy and relieved.

Dad will be pleased.

Here's the Foreword, by anthropologist Athol Chase.
FOREWORD

Some years ago John Warby published his memoir called “You-me Mates Eh?” which dealt with his nine years or so across the decade of the ‘50s as the superintendent of the Lockhart River Mission in eastern Cape York Peninsula. He was kind enough to ask me to write a foreword for that book, which I was extremely happy to do. I had spent much time at Lockhart (at the new site location near the Iron Range Airport) since 1970, and I had also met John on quite a number of occasions in Rockhampton. He was a good friend, and all my experiences with him bore out the great reputation he and his wife had developed at Lockhart River as mission helpers of character, strength, and of love towards all people.

The last time I saw John was at my mother’s funeral in Rockhampton in 1998. He had not known her, but he has seen the funeral notice in the paper, and he had come along on his very shaky legs, in his 80s, to pay his respects to our friendship. As is the way of church funerals, there were the usual desperate and faint attempts on the congregation’s part to sing hymns in tune, and to make a valid participation. At my mother’s funeral, my brother had chosen a number of old Anglican stalwarts to be sung, and as could be expected, there was faint and muted participation. John decided to move things along, and from the rear of St Pauls cathedral came this magnificent voice, loud and resonant like an organ, giving very sure leadership to the congregation. I knew without looking who it was: John had come to the rescue.

In this book John has incorporated his earlier account of the Lockhart days, but he takes us back to the very beginnings of his life in New South Wales, the depression years, his subsequent enlistment in the Army, and his long period of active service as an artilleryman in the Middle East and in the south Pacific. After the war the young John, deeply affected by his war experience, married and set up house in Thursday Island, engaging in the trochus and pearling industry. He had been deeply religious since his war experiences, and in the decade of the fifties he took on the superintendency of Lockhart River mission through a Christian sense of duty. His time there is well reported in this book too.

Following his time at the Mission, John decided to go the whole nine Christian yards, and he entered St Francis’s college to study for the priesthood. Once ordained he worked as a priest in central Queensland with his usual full-on zeal, always with a strong commitment to Aboriginal people in central Queensland. For this work he was made Queenslander of the year in 1989, and his acceptance speech did little to endear him to the Premier of the time, Joh Bjelke-Petersen. As I remember, it was a brave statement of defiance about the validity of Aboriginal people and their rights. Later he also was awarded an OAM, which was richly deserved. John died before finishing his life story, and his daughter Patty has added information to complete the account. The book stands as testimony to a true friend of many Aboriginal and European Australians, and a truly humble, devoted and very effective Anglican priest, for it is in those terms which I think John would wish to be remembered.

Athol Chase
March 2008

Mum's Park Bench

Mum has been a pioneer native plant grower, so I thought a nice thing to do would be to have a park bench in her name. Voila!

Mum's day-trip to China

So Mum has always wanted to go to China, havent we all, but these days she is prolly a little frail to travel so far, so.... I took China to her; for a day.

A double Lion Dance, a traditional greeting of Good Luck spelt out in oranges a Fan Dance, a tour of the Joss, histoy explained and understood, lighting joss sticks and have Mum's fortune read out from the stick thingies, lol.


What a marvellous memory, thankyou Dorothy for organising this for me, and Mum.

Spam

I was a Mouse

You quietly examine life's lessons and see multiple meanings in things. You are also good at discovering details and remaining in the background.

What Animal Were You In a Past Life?

WHAT ANIMAL were YOU in a past life

I was a Deer

Graceful and gentle, you appreciate beauty and balance. A giving soul, you are able to sacrifice for the greater good.

What Animal Were You In a Past Life?

Jackalope

Jackalope, is generally considered a hoax. Some believe that the tales of jackalopes were inspired by sightings of rabbits infected with the Shope papillomavirus, which causes the growth of horn- and antler-like tumors in various places on the rabbit's head and body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope

Rainbow.

Rain and sun today, then a rainbow.


If you look closely at the picture below, you can just see a double rainbow.

who is it

 

where get easter aggs come from

ponder these

Something to lighten a day... but who has the time to think of these things!!!!

1. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

3. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

4. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

5. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

6. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

7. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

8. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

9. Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

10. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

11. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

12. "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

13. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

14. What hair colour do they put on the driver's licences of bald men?

15. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

16. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

17. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

18. No one ever says, "It's only a game" when their team is winning.

19. Ever wonder about those people who spend £1.50 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE

20. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

21. If 4 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhoea, does that mean that one enjoys it?