26/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with Z

My lovely Grand daughter Zoe

 25/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with Y

Yungaburra in the Atherton Tablelands Queensland has a magnificent Memorial to our soldiers killed in Afghanistan

 24/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with X

   An XY Falcon same model and colour as our car bought in  1972 when they were superseded 

 23/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with W

  The windows of the Begonia House in Machattie Park Bathurst which I visited on Monday, as usual the Begonias are beautiful.

 22/02/2022   Photo a Day Starts with V

Vegemite which Zoe used as a facial cream , this photo taken ten days ago

 21/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with U

Uncle George with my Mother (his sister) in 2000 the last time they would see each other

 20/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with T

                      Tim aged 4

   with his son Luke before Christmas

 19/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with S

 Sashiko , I like doing Sashiko embroidery which is Japanese , this one is called bunnies with waves and I think I will buy this one next from Shiboridragon in Brisbane.

 18/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with R

     Rocking Horse

 17/02/2022  Starts with Q

I have been visiting Queensland for most of my life and I have and had many family members live there over the years.

My mother was also stationed there during the war in her role as a Signalwoman in the AWAS.

One block wonder

 I only recently discovered this technique and I have completed one top and have enough fabric for another one.

This is the Panel I bought (seven of ) and  it's called Lipstick Cowgirl

And after lots of pinning cutting into strips and then triangles then pinning into strips again to be sewn into hexagons , not hard but fiddly.

 16/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with P

My daughter Patricia who hates being called that ! mostly I call her Trish along with everyone else

 15/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with O

Oval Office in the White House

Of course I haven't been in the Oval Office at the White House this is the Replica of the office when Bill Clinton was President. It is situated in the Bill Clinton Library in Little Rock Arkansas.

 14/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with N

 Nephews and Niece

This group of young people is my two children and my 6 nephews and One niece  all born in Bathurst but not one of them live here.

From Left Liam ,Joe ,Hamish, Jenny ,Richard ,Isaac, Trish, Tim and Campbell

 13/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with M

My Shadow Molly Kathleen

 12/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with L

My Grandson Luke

 11/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with K

My Paternal Grandmother Kathleen born in England migrated with her family to New Zealand when she was 17 years old married her Australian husband and they came back to Australia in 1931. After my Grandfather died she led a nomadic sort of life between Melbourne and New Zealand then Brisbane and eventually she resettled in Sydney until died died in Turramurra in 1986.

She was an author and poet but I only have one of her poems as they were all thrown out years ago.

 10/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with J

My maternal Grandfather James Oswald Doyle , injured at Flanders in WW1 then went back to farming in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area not far from where he grew up. In 1936 he flew to the USA to study rice growing methods. He was very civic minded and served on the Rice Marketing Board for many years and was a Councillor in the local Shire as well as being active in the Farmers and Settlers Association in Griffith but also on the State level.

He died quite young (64) and only a few of we older cousins remember him, I was 12 when he died and I'm the 4th eldest Grandchild of 24.

 9/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with I

My father Iain Donald McDougall

 8/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with H

     Hydrangea , one of many I have growing in pots in my courtyard.

 7/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with G

   Giraffes at Mogo Zoo last November

 6/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with F

              Family , my son Tim his wife Tamara and their children Luke and Zoe

 5/02/2022   Photo a Day  Starts with E

I have eggplant on my shopping list because I am going to make Pennie's Italian Cobb Loaf for lunch for the girls on Monday

 4/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with D

My lovely dogs long since gone over the Rainbow Bridge Millie, Macy and Murphy

 3/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with C

Cousins

This photo was taken in 2016 and is a photo of six cousins who don't live anywhere near each other from left to right and from youngest to oldest

Paul from Brisbane

Jayne from Adelaide

Christopher from Wagga Wagga

Paul from Picton

Bronwyn from Deniliquin

Christine from Bathurst

 2/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with B

   My favourite toy my Bernina (or one of them) 

 1/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with A

   Andrew my brother patting Lady in the backyard at Neutral Bay in about 1955