20/10/14  Photo a Day   T is for......

Twin nephews Isaac on the left and Joseph but  when they were younger  they did not look, as much alike.as they do now.

19/10/14   Photo a Day  S is for.......

Sheila Maura

My mother with Andrew,Louise and myself about 1954

18/10/14   Photo a Day   R is for.......

the Rileys

Jayne and Tom who are so good to me , this time next week I will be seeing them for the first time since May 

17/10/14  Photo a Day  Q is for ..........

Q is for Quilting friends, I pinched these photos from the Sydney Scquilters Blog

Brenda,Lissa and Pennie

16/10/14   Photo a Day   P is for .........

Patricia Anne aged 2

15/10/14   Photo a Day  O is for ........

the Ousbys

My sister Louise and her husband Joe

14/10/14   Photo a Day  N is for .........

This photo taken in 2001 includes one niece and many nephews as well as my own two children

13/10/14   Photo a Day  M is for........

Macy will be 14 years old in December 

Murphy and Millie enjoying the sun over the weekend

12/10/14   Photo a Day   L is for .........

Louise my younger sister

And aged about 2 

11/10/14   Photo a Day   K is for ..........

Kathleen Maria McDougall

My paternal Grandmother

10/10/14  Photo a Day  J is for ........

Judy and Joy

Two of my closest friends on a day out at Cowra Japanese Gardens about 10 years ago.

9/10/14   Photo a Day  I is for ..........

Iain Donald Hay McDougall

My father, I took this photo in Townsville in July 1996 which is the last time I saw him.

8/10/14  Photo a Day  H is for ........

Hamish Ousby in 1996

youngest son of my sister Louise

and these are his sons Jed and Leo

7/10/14  Photo a Day  G is for .........

George Doyle

Mum and her older brother in September 2000, the photo was taken in Mum's unit the last time they saw each other as Mum died the following March.

6/10/14  Photo a Day   F is for .......

Family

My small family taken at a wedding about nine  years ago

5/10/14  Photo a day   E is for .........

Ernie

Uncle Ernie was everyone's favourite uncle RIP

4/10/14   Photo a Day  D is for ....

My friend Dianne

3/10/14   Photo a Day  C  is for

Cathy my youngest sister

2/10/14   Photo a Day  B is For........

Brother

Twenty month old Trish holding her week old brother Tim

1/10/14  Photo a Day   A is for...........

This is Anne Maria my childhood friend , this photo was taken at Kurraba Point Wharf about 55 years ago.

The list for Photo a Day for October is the letters of the alphabet and then some numbers so I have decided to feature some friends and family starting with Anne Maria who lives in Brisbane now and I don't know her surname to try and find her.

30/09/14  Photo a Day   Where I'm from

This is the tram that used to run from Neutral Bay Wharf up the hill to Neutral Bay Junction , I caught this tram to school every morning as we lived near the Wharf and  Neutral Bay School was near the Junction. By the time the trams were finished I was walking to school I think in the late 1950's. I lived in Neutral Bay until I was 14 years old.

29/09/14  Photo a Day  I wish

I wish to stay healthy and to live until a ripe old age

               

28/09/14  Photo a Day   Game

Tim is ready for his game of cricket I think this photo was taken in the mid 80's

27/09/14   Photo a Day  Celebration  

Christmas 1967

26/09/14   Photo a Day  Best

This is the best sewing machine I own or have ever owned

25/09/14  Photo a Day  Angle

Lots of angles on this ruler which is my favourite

24/09/14   Photo a Day  Loud

I don't watch very much commercial television but I hate the fact that advertisements are loud! 

Monday Patchwork girls

This group of friends meet on Mondays sometimes we sew but more often than not we chat, exchange ideas, read magazines and of course eat and talk food as well as patchwork.We take turns cooking lunch and yesterday Joy made a lovely salad with Maple poached pears and walnuts,Chicken, tomato,avocado,cucumber and salad greens etc.
For dessert we had strawberries marinated in Balsamic vinegar  served with cream and custard.

It was a beautiful sunny spring day in Bathurst and were able to sit outside for the first time in months , I enjoyed it so much three of us are having a rerun today to catch up on some work but also to sit in the sun and enjoy the warmth.

23/09/14   Photo a Day  Triangle

I made this ocean waves quilt in 1998 and it has  3464 half square triangles 

22/09/14   Photo a Day  Crisp

It is a crisp morning here in Bathurst only 3 degrees and a fog

21/09/14  Photo a Day  Fave Word

20/09/14   Photo a Day   Beginning

Spring has sprung and my tree has new beginnings after all these things fall the new leaves will be appearing in about 3 weeks.

19/09/14   Photo a Day   Even

The scales of Lady Justice should always be even

18/09/14   Photo a Day    Person

This is my rock, my daughter Trish

This photo was taken at the Grand Canyon a couple of years ago, at present she and her friend Emma are travelling in Africa

17/09/14   Photo a Day  Key

16/0914   Photo a Day  I don't like

I don't like Peanut butter or anything made with it!!

15/09/14   Photo a Day  Remember

This is Balmoral Beach and for many years when I was young my father and I would have a swim every morning before school.I have many fond memories of this beach and my childhood.

8/09/14   Photo a Day  Broken

The poor donkey has a broken ear but I still love my nativity set

more family photos

This photo was taken on the 6th May 1989  of my mother her siblings and their significant others.It was the last time they were all together and there are only two left now,  Kathleen  and Eileen

This photo taken at my wedding in December 1969 and is Nanny Catherine Helena Doyle, Aunty Kath, Kathleen Mary Boswell, Christine McDougall Colley  and Mum Sheila McMenamin

 This photo of Catherine Helena Doyle  and  Jane Beatrice Gavell (nee Doyle) was taken at my parent's wedding 6/05/1946

More family history

 Here are some more photos from my family history box especially for you Sue Booth

James Osborne Doyle b.? Narrandera d. Leeton

He was at one stage the Publican of the the Hotel at Gillenbah near Narrandera.

married Jane Ann Graham at Goulburn NSW in 1884 and they had four children

Annie (d. 1930 Whitton)

Jane Beatrice (d. North Sydney  1964)

James Oswald Doyle

Millicent Isabelle (d. North Sydney 1962)

George Dowling Moore born 13/05/1869 in Mt. Gambier  SA died 15/07/1919 (Flu epidemic) in Leeton NSW

married Mary Kealy 21/07/1895 in Chetwynd Victoria

Their first child was a son who died in infancy George b. 23/06/1896 d. 1896  in WA

Mary Ann (Aunty Mollie) 5/07/1897 -13/05/1993

Catherine Helena  18/11/1898 - 17/08/1980

Agnes (Sister Mary Lawrence)

Margaret (Peg) Flanagan

Eileen Arberry

Celia McLaren

Ruth Elliott 1913 -2/12/1998