30/09/2021   Photo a Day  Achievement

   My family is my greatest achievement

 29/09/2021  Photo a Day  On my desk

 28/09/2021  Photo a Day  Landscape

  Nerada Tea Plantation in the Atherton Tablelands Qld  in September 2020

 27/09/2021  Photo a Day  Portrait

   My mother in 1946/47

 26/09/2021  Photo a Day Behind me

When we go out in the car Molly sits behind me

 25/09/2021  Photo a Day Rows

 These machine pieced hexagons are in vertical rows!

Visitors

 

I had some visitors yesterday morning Mother Duck and her four kids out for a stroll I left the front gate open and they wandered off hopefully to the Duck Pond in Machattie Park or down to the Macquarie River neither of which is far from my home.

 24/09/2021  Photo a Day  Sad

It makes me very sad that I can't see my family and haven't been to Sydney for two years now

 23/09/2021  Photo a Day  Mirror

 Tim and Tamara  have a mirror splashback in the kitchen as you can see from this photo of Luke and Zoe

 22/09/2021  Photo a Day A Hobby

   Some would call it an obsession but I call it a hobby

 21/09/2021  Photo a Day  A Pile

A pile of 2 inch squares cut out ready to start next project ,by the way there are 320 squares!

 20/09/2021  Photo a Day  I believe

I believe it's time to reorganise some things in the kitchen so I got busy this morning and I think I like the result but as they say the proof is in the pudding so I'll have to wait a week or two to see if this works better.

 19/09/2021  Photo a Day  Chair

 18/09/2021   Photo a Day  Mess

 This is the mess in my spare room and it's not even mine. It belongs to my Bubble Buddy who comes and sews on her days off.

17/09/2021  Photo a Day  Plant

My Daphne is almost finished flowering   for this year but it has been prolific

16/09/2021  Photo a Day Begins with E

 15/09/2021  Photo a Day    A  Pet

                            Molly  Kathleen is named after   my Great Aunt Molly and my Aunt Kathleen

 14/09/2021Photo a Day Happy

Happy days when family could gather, DD Trish and DIL Tamara at a  family wedding, the  last time my family were all together

 13/09/2021  Photo a Day On my wall

 12/09/2021  Photo a Day   This is useful

When my oven died about 6 weeks ago I couldn't afford a new one but I could afford an oven/air fryer and although I am still learning it has indeed proved useful.

 11/09/2021  Photo a Day   How I feel today

This photo was taken last year but I am closely watching it again this year as the leaves start to form, I was worried that being so young the frosts might have won but I am now confident it has survived winter.

Happy birthday

 

 My sister Louise who lives in Brisbane ( and is not under lockdown ) is celebrating her 69 th birthday today.

 

 10/09/2021 Photo a Day  What I'm watching

   From afar I am watching my grandchildren grow up not really knowing me at all , I haven't seen them since January and rarely talk to them as their parents are too busy . Just get photos every couple of weeks.

 9/09/2021   Photo a Day  Begins with M

                           Molly Kathleen

 8/09/2021  Photo a Day  4 PM

 Doesn't happen very often a clean sewing desk

 7/09/2021  Photo a Day  Letterbox

Iain Donald Hay McDougall

 On this day one hundred years ago my father was born in Christchurch New Zealand to an Australian Father and an English Mother. When he was ten years old the family of five moved back to Australia and lived in the lower north shore of Sydney mainly Neutral Bay.

Dad excelled at school and was Dux of North Sydney Boys High School and decided to become a journalist however World War 11 intervened and he lied about his age and joined the 2/1 Battalion AIF and travelled to the Middle East but was injured near Tobruk and was repatriated home and discharged as a TPI in late 1941.

After regaining some health and strength he again went into Journalism and at one stage worked on the Sydney Morning Herald until the late Fifties when he set up his own Printing and Publishing business. 

A freelance writer of prose and poetry from his schooldays ,he wrote for many publications especially the Bulletin under the pen-name of Dick Turpin.

He and Mum were married after she was demobbed in 1946 and they divorced in 1963, he went on to marry a further two times.I  don't have many memories of him after we left Sydney as the only contact we three kids had was via mail as his second wife did not want anything to do with us.

After she died however Dad rekindled his relationship with Louise and I (Andrew had died years before) and I had one visit to Townsville to stay with him and many frequent  long phone calls .

  I am not sure how old Dad is in this photo but I have always loved it.

    Iain Donald Hay McDougall 6/09/1921 -26/09/2000

 6/09/2021  Photo a Day  Best Part of my Day

  The evening when I am relaxing with a glass of wine in my chair and Molly on the foot stool

 5/09/2021   Photo a Day  Free Choice

  The three of us Christine, Louise and Andrew with Lindy and Lady at home in Neutral Bay  1956

 4/09/2021   Fave Jewellery

 3/09/2021  Photo a Day  I use this daily

 2/09/2021  Photo a Day  Tasty

    Home made fish Tacos

 1/09/2021  Photo a Day  What I'm reading

I've just finished this book lots of insight into her life as a Curator at the Victoria and Albert  Museum