31/03/2019   Photo a Day  Fix

The Doorman came and fixed ny garage door this week , on the left is the before photo and below is the after.He has also rendered it silent because it was making very loud screams as it went up and down.

30/03/2019   Photo a Day  Park

  The Fountain and Rotunda in Machattie Park Bathurst

29/03/2019   Photo a Day  Mirror

I remember a mirror like this in my childhood home , don't know what happened to it perhaps my sister owns it now.

28/03/2019   Photo a Day  Stick

27/03/2019  Photo a Day  Home

I can't wait until I get home to this little corner this afternoon as I am having Day Surgery today to remove some very nasty skin cancers.Although I am not scared I didn't sleep much last night I suppose I am wrrying about the outcome.

26/03/2019   Photo a Day  Sky

Sunset in Darwin in June last year

25/03/2019   Photo a Day  Fashion

24/03/2019   Photo a Day  Black and White

   I think this photo was taken in 1968

23/03/2019   Photo a Day  OK

Well now OK I have to put more things up out of reach because yesterday Molly learnt that she can jump up onto chairs etc. to reach things!

Quilt Top

 For the last two years I have been hand piecing this quilt designed by Brigette Giblin called Quilts in the Shearing Shed which was the raffle quilt for an exhibition she held near Bathurst two years ago.
I decided to buy the pattern and using Kiwi fabrics I had collected in New Zealand I've been stitching away.

Pictured below is Molly's contribution to the making/unmaking of the quilt

 

22/03/2019   Photo a Day  Craving

For the last two weeks as the weather has cooled down I have been craving a good curry, last night I went for a complete comfort food dinner Sausage Curry, Yum.

21/03/2019   Photo a Day  Wall

   This Dry stone wall is  behind the water liliy pond at Mount Tomah Botanic Gardens

20/03/2019   Photo a Day  A Pile

19/03/2019   Photo a Day  Funny

 Molly is  a funny little dog but she wormed her way into my heart

18/03/2019   Photo a Day  Jar

                            

  I bought this jar of jam at Maggie Beer's Farm Shop in January

17/03/2019  Photo a Day Something Green

Anniversary

  It is eighteen years ago today since my mother died aged 78.

RIP Sheila Maura pictured here with me in 1948

16/03/2019   Photo a Day  On the Ground 

   

    This sign on the ground near Broome WA

15/03/2019   Photo a Day  Kid

                                                

                                               This photo of Luke was taken at Pre School

14/03/2019   Photo a Day  Simple

I finished this quilt top on Tuesday anad whilst it looks complicated it is very simple just a disappearing nine patch.

13/03/2019   Photo a Day  Jewels

                                              This tiara belonged to the French Royal Family

12/03/2019   Photo a Day My mood today

11/03/2019   Photo a Day  About Me

This photo was taken before the first surgery on my face and I'm about to have another operation in the next couple of weeks after I have my dicky ticker checked out.

10/03/2019  Photo a Day  Words

9/03/2019   Photo a Day  Bird

This is Harry who lives in Townsville he's a very well mannered bird

8/03/2019   Photo a Day  Grateful for

 My two companions Millie and Molly because life would be very lonely without them.

7/03/2019   Photo a Day  Phone

I can't remember the exact model but my first mobile phone was a Nokia Flip phone , I had this phone when I visited my Father in Townsville in 1996. I still have the same mobile number would you believe.

Happy birthday Lidija

 

 This is my brother's daughter Lidija who is two days younger than Tim, I last saw her when she was about six weeks old. Andrew and his partner separated when she was about twelve months old and Andrew died about eighteen months later.

My brother had a very hard life as a child and he became a very troubled adult , we had a Father who basically ignored his family and then our parents divorced with Mum and we three children living with our Grandmother for twelve months and then Mum remarried to a man who did not even try and be nice to us.

Our life in Bathurst was very unhappy and then Andrew was sent to Stannies (St Stanislaus College) as a boarder and everyone now knows what occurred there.After running away numerous times and being sent back he was expelled when he was 16 and my Step Father kicked him out of home.

After a few months living with Uncle George and his family in Sydney Andrew eventually moved to Canberra where he worked as a Gardener and then just drifted.

My Father also remarried ( to his mistress!) and the only contact we had with him was via letters , we weren't welcome at his home until after she died and by then Andrew had gone too.

6/03/2018  Photo a Day  Out the window 

  I tore this picture out of a magazine about twenty years ago for inspiration for a quilt , one day I'll make it.

5/03/2019   Photo a Day  Flowers   

Begonias in the Begonia House Machattie Park Bathurst

Tim

Happy birthday Tim , how the years have flown by ,in this photo he's a couple of weeks old and getting big cuddles from his big sister.

4/03/2019   Photo a Day Happy

This little bloke makes me happy I just wish I could get to see more of him.

3/03/2019  Photo a Day  Old

           This photo is old probably taken about the time of her marriage in 1910, Kathleen Maria Turley was born in Reddich (Birmingham) UK in 1889 and with her family migrated to New Zealand in 1909 where she met my Grandfather an Australian  working in New Zealand as a KC.
She died in Nazareth Nursing Home in Turramurra in June 1983.

2/03/2019   Photo a Day  Alone

 

I have been on my own now for over twenty two years but sometimes the lonliness is overwhelming and other times I'm happy with my own company.

Restarting Photo a Day for 2019

1/03/2019   Photo a Day  Something colourful

Luke is playing with some colourful blocks at Pre School