21/06/2024  I went to..

 Bruges in Belgium to look at the WW1 battlefields. In this photo Sherree and I are having a carriage ride around the old city and canals.

 20/06/2024  Photo a Day I don't like to...

Well not me but  Molly does not like getting her nails cut, 2 groomers, a muzzle and tied up to do a very quick cut whenever necessary.

19/06/2024  Photo a Day I like to drink 

Weak black tea.

Happy birthday Patricia

 

Sitting to the left of her Great Grandmother who is nursing Tim and their Grandmother on the right.

18/06/2024  Photo a Day I love this time of day

 17/06/2024  Photo a Day I bought

   A new hydrangea earlier this year but unfortunately it did not survive.

 16/06/2024  Photo a Day  I create

 Quilts and lots of them this hand appliqued pink quilt is probably 40 years old now.

 15/06/2024  Photo a Day On weekends I

 Considering it's cold and wet This weekend will be all about sewing.

14/06/2024  Photo a Day I love this view

  Neutral Bay where I grew up.

 13/06/2024  Photo a Day I know

 I hate winter and I hate the cold and there's a long way to go until the warm weather comes back

11/06/2024  Photo a Day  I work here

10/06/2024  Photo A Day  I stood here

The preparations for the First time the Tour de France started outside France in 2006.This photo was taken on the Mall.

 9/10/2024  Photo a Day I read this

8/06/2024  Photo a Day I like to eat

Grazing box from the Neville Hotel was so yummy.

7/06/2024  Photo a Day  I have..

  Finished another quilt top using my Kaffe Fassett fabrics I have stores over the years.

 6/06/2024  Photo a Day  I love

 Snuggling with my fur babies on a cold winter evening.

D Day Memorial

Today is the 80th Anniversary of the Dday Landings in France which turned the War in the Allies favour.

In a small town in Virginia USA is  a magnificent Memorial to Dday, I was fortunate to visit there in 2010 all the allied forces were represented  and the story behind the memorial is below why this town was selected.

The Bedford Boys

Among the hundreds of thousands massed off the shores of Normandy on the morning of 6 June 1944 were 44 soldiers, sailors, and airmen from the town and county of Bedford, Virginia. Thirty-seven of these young men belonged to Company A of the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. For almost all of them, this would be their baptism of fire. Of the 37 assigned to Company A, 31 loaded into landing craft and headed for Omaha Beach in the first wave; the remainder belonged to supply details and would arrive later. En route, a landing craft struck an obstacle and sank, stranding dozens far from shore, including five of Bedford’s own. The remaining 26 successfully reached Omaha Beach, where 16 were killed and four wounded within a matter of minutes. Three others were unaccounted for and later presumed killed in action. Another Bedford soldier was killed in action elsewhere on Omaha Beach with Company F, bringing Bedford’s D-Day fatalities to a total of 20. In comparison with its wartime population, Bedford suffered the Nation’s highest known per capita D-Day loss, a somber distinction for the rural Virginia community. 

 5/06/2024  Photo a Day I saw

    This statue in a park in Nashville Tennessee. 

 4/06/2024  Photo a Day  I feel

 Cold ! winter has arrived with a vengeance the max yesterday was 9 and today 10.I hate winter so much

 3/06/2024  Photo a Day  I walked here

  X marks the spot on the road where JFK was shot in November 1963

 2/06/2024 Photo a Day  I held this

Grandma and Luke about 7 years ago

 1/06/2024  Photo a Day I am

 Christine a retired nurse , quilter ,Mother, Grandmother, Sister ,Aunt, Great Aunt and friend to many.