31/05/2020   Photo a Day  Selfie

30/05/2020   Photo a Day  Outside

   It is quite cold outside this morning

29/05/2020  Photo a Day Today I'm

                                                        Spending the day sewing

28/05/2020  Photo a Day  Alone

Even though I live alone I am never alone as Molly likes to be with me at all times.

27/05/2020   Photo a Day Something I wore

Aged about three or four and in the winter we always wore a "pinny" over our woollen clothes

Photo a Day Catch Up

26/05/2020   Photo a Day  Dinner   

25/05/2020  Photo a Day  Lunch 

 24/05/2020   Photo a Day Breakfast

I don't eat breakfast much these days so I pinched this image from Google images

23/05/2020  Photo a Day  Something Green

  Some green elements on the project I ma working on

22/05/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Reading

21/05/2020   Photo a Day  Routine

   Every evening when I have finished whatever I have been doing I organize my dinner and then sit in the lounge room and ejoy a glass of wine.

20/05/2020  Photo a Day  My iso crew

  My friend Dianne has been coming and sewing but we do have lunch breaks!

29/05/2020   Photo a Day  Letterbox

18/05/2020  Photo a Day  I did this today

I made some more flying geese for my current project

17/05/2020   Photo a Day  I feel

 
 very lucky that I have these two who love me and want to be with me all the time

16/05/2020  Photo a Day  I isolate here

15/05/2020  Photo a Day Reflection

     Zoe admiring herself

14/05/2020  Photo a Day  In the kitchen

13/05/2020   Photo a Day Two things

  Two of the last roses for this season they are Papa Meilland and they smell divine

12/05/2020   Photo a Day  Snack

 

 Zoe is sharing her snack (a rusk) with Beau

11/05/2020   Photo a Day Working here

   I have been spending lots of time in this room where my sewing machine and computer live.

10/05/2020  Photo a Day Self Care

  After yesterday's self pitying post I went and had my hair cut (very overdue)  then i had surprise visitors Tris and Simon drove from Sydney to have lunch with me.Molly was overjoyed to see them as was I.

9/05/2020   Photo a Day  I miss

I miss my family it is now over five months since I have seen any of them, I had Christmas ,Easter,my birthday and now Mother's Day without them.Feeling quite sad and emotional today.

8/05/2020  Photo a Day  The sky

7/05/2020  Photo a Day  Throw back

   My siblings and some cousins taken at Mum's second wedding in Griffith December 1963.
in the front row are the twins Cathy and Jenny and their young sister Phillipa , sadly Cathy (on the right) died of breast cancer aged 40 twenty years ago now.

Wedding

  On this day in 1946 my parents Iain McDougall and Sheila Doyle married at St Stephens Church in Sydney pictured here with my Maternal Grandparents Kath and Ozzie Doyle.

Mum had only been officially discharged from the Army two weeks before this date, the marriage lasted just 14 years and produced three children Christine ,Louise and Andrew.

Since they have died I have been looking into the past history  and I realise these two people should never have married because they were both on the rebound, Mum's boyfriend had proposed to her before he went to the UK to fly in the Battle of Britain where he  died after his plane was shot down over the English Channel .My Father had been engaged to a woman and they apparently had a fight walking home over the Harbour Bridge and she threw her engagement ring into the water.
Dad and Joy reconnected about nine or ten years after Dad was married and not only carried on an affair he made her his Personal Assistant at his business.They married the week after the divorce and were only parted by her death ten years before Dad's death.

6/05/2020  Photo a Day I made this

     My new big pin cushion

Happy birthday

   

  Cathy my youngest sister who is 55 today

5/05/2020  Photo a Day  A fave room

   I call this room the long room but it could be a sun room or verandah, in the winter it gets the morning sun and its lovely to sit and read . This is another activity that takes place in this room

                                                              

4/05/2020   Photo a Day Neighbourhood

 

 The view from my backdoor across to the Bathurst Library and Art Gallery both closed at presentdue to the Pandemic Restrictions.

3/05/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Dreaming

    It's a well known fact I hate the cold weather and the last two days certainly reminded me  why I hate it.

2/05/2020   Photo a Day  A drink

1/05/2020   Photo a Day  View from a window

   This photo was taken from my friend Julie's home outside of Bathurst and the lovely bird feeder she has.