13/01/2020   Photo a Day  Water

This fountain is outside the Bill Clinton Library in Little Rock Arkansas USA.

12/01/2020  Photo a Day  In the air

My tree lost a lot of leaves yesterday I don't need Autumn this year because the tree will be bare before the season starts.

11/01/2020   Photo a Day  Yum

I don't have one often but I do love a hamburger

10/01/2020    Photo a Day  Eye Candy

9/01/2020  Photo a Day  Paper

   Just one page of a paper pattern for a project designed by Anni Downs of Bathurst

8/01/2020   Photo a Day  Cheesy

   Molly and her cheesy grin not sure what she's dreaming about.

7/01/2020   Photo a Day  I enjoy

   

  Eating my vegies

6/01/2020   Photo a Day Outside

   My very dead front yard it is now two months since we had any decent rain and of course here in Bathurst we are on extreme water restrictions as our dam is only 33% full .

5/01/2020  Photo a Day  Confetti

4/01/2020  Photo a Day  Get in the picture

On the deck of The Princess of Tasmania leaving Melbourne

3/01/2020  Photo a Day  This year I'll

    Try and finish a few more quilts before starting new ones, and get to Sydney more often to see family and have lunch at the Pub with my Scquilter friends.

2/01/2020  Photo a Day  Black and White

           The three McDougall children with our Mother in Neutral Bay in the late fifties I think

Happy New Year

 I would like to wish everyone a Happy and prosperous New Year, I hope that we soon get some rain to put out all the fires and give the Firies a rest so gratefully earned .

Last year was not a good year I had significant health issues that hopefully are under control , too many visits to Day Sugery for me.

At the end of October my exhusband and father of our children died after a long battle with cancer, in the end he just gave up he'd had enough.I hope Trish and Tim have a better year this year.

The one bright light in our year was the birth of Zoe Maree a gorgeous happy baby who although she was very small at birth is growing very fast now.

I have heard it said that whatever you do on New Year's Day  you will continue doing all year, I hope to buck that trend as I have done over thirty set in corners and I hate them!

1/01/2020   Photo a Day  Happy

 

   Happy little football supporters

31/12/2019   Photo a Day  My Best pic of 2019

  I love my Japanese hydrangea because it reminds me of my Mother and Grandmother who both grew them, such a delicate flower.

30/12/2019   Photo a Day  Lunchtime

29/12/2019   Photo a Day  Selfie

28/12/2019  Photo a Day  I got this

 
  I just love this hot weather I wish it would last a bit longer because I don't like winter at all.

23/12/2019   Photo a Day  Tradition

   Yesterday my friend Dianne and I went to Young to get some cherries, they have not had a good season this year because of the drought and many of teh orchards were closed but we did buy some beautiful big sweet cherries.
It's not Christmas in Australia without cherries.

24/12/2019   Photo a Day  Christmas Eve

   I pinched this picture from Quiltville Bonnie Hunter's site.

22/12/2019   Photo a Day  I did this today

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    I wrapped the presents for my family that will have to wait until travel links between Bathurst and Sydney improve.

20/12/2019   Photo a Day  Christmas Treat

I can't post a photo because my Christmas Treat was to spend it with my family in Sydney however yesterday I made the decision to stay at home as there are too many fires between Bathurst and Sydney.
I am hoping that things will get better in the New Year and I can can travel down and see everyone.

21/12/2019   Photo a Day  Star

19/12/2019   Photo a Day  Joy is....

   My friend Joy on the right pictured with Judy when we had a day out in Cowra about 10 years ago.

My Hydrangeas

Despite the drought and with watering by watering can I have some lovely Hydrangeas in flower at present.

This is called a Japanese hydranea

  This one is a Lace Cap

18/12/2019   Photo a Day Decoration

17/12/2019   Photo a Day  Tree

     Christmas 2009

16/12/2019  Photo a Day  Wrapping

   Tom with all his presents Christmas 2014

15/12/2019   Photo a Day  Fun

   Three cousins ,it was such fun catching up with Phillipa in Darwin last year as I hadn't seen her for many years, sadly since then her Mother has died and there is no one left of Mum's generation

14/12/2019   Photo a Day  Red and white

    This is Molly's new T shirt that is very appropriate

13/12/2019   Photo a Day  Sparkle

     Zoe's party dress had sparkles and stars

12/12/2019   Photo a Day  Green

    It's a bit hard to find anything green at present with all the water restrictions this photo was taken at the Dog Park about 4/5 months ago

11/12/2019   Photo a Day  Mail

Two out of three ain't bad

I have completed two quilts and a Quilt top this week. The first one is Zoe's Christmas present and the other two are for me.

10/12/2019   Photo a Day  A gift

I have made this cot quilt for my Grand daughter Zoe for Christmas

9/12/2019  Photo a Day  Santa

       A small selection of the Santas I possess

8/12/2019   Photo a Day  Morning

  This morning I am on the Bathurst Bullet Train to Sydney to celebrate Luke's birthday

Luke Anthony

    Happy fourth birthday to my Gandson Luke pictured here doing Lego with his Aunty Trish

Millie

      This is Millicent Isabelle my long haired chihuahua who is eight years old today, she is named after my Great Aunt who was a cranky lady who scared most children.

7/12/2019   Photo a Day  Homemade

I made this pincushion earlier this year

6/12/2019  Photo a Day Small

I have two small dogs Molly Kathleen and Millicent Isabelle both named after Great Aunts of mine.

Iain Andrew McDougall

   This is my brother Andrew , he was born on the 6th December 1953 in Cremorne (Sydney) and he had a very difficult and short life.

Our parents separated when he was only nine and he never saw our Father again, our Step Father hated him (and me) and we were treated like dirt.

Then he was sent to St Stanislaus College as a boarder even though we lived in Bathurst and   when he was expelled from there when he was only 16  my Step Father kicked him out of home. He went to live with relatives in Sydney where he did confide to our cousin about his mistreatment at the hands of Priests at Stannies .

Although we suspected the same and I think he did try and convince Mum its only since Therese told me what Andrew said to her which is quite confronting when you are only 16 as she was and of course her parents  being staunch Catholics just did not believe it.

I know when the news broke about the abuse at Stannies Aunty Kath was still alive (mum had died by then) and her comment was "Oh Andrew must have been telling the truth then!" which led me to believe that Mum must have told Aunty Kath what Andrew had said.

Andrew then sadly went off the rails and became addicted to drugs and alcohol and died in September 1977 before his 23 rd birthday , he is one of the many victims of the Church who couldn't live with their abuse .

Rest in Peace little brother.

5/12/2019   Photo a Day  Today's weather

It is going to warm up again after only having 14 degrees on Monday, heater has been on the last few nights its been so cold.

4/12/2019   Photo a Day  I bought this

  I bought this last week at Bunnings it's a hydrangea hybrid but isn't it gorgeous?  Of course when I bought it last week the weather was very hot and it suffered for a day or two and like most hydrangeas that are covered in blooms it is now finished until next year.

3/12/2019   Photo a Day  Something Festive

I made this Christmas tree about 15 years ago but recently I made some more and yesterday I gave two away to friends.

2/12/2019  Photo a Day  Lights

The Pyramid and the Sphinx  lit up at night