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Clematis "Old Man's Beard'
This is what I am still removing from the front garden. The only time it looks at all remarkable is when the seed sets, and it develops the fluffy 'beard'.
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Queen Victoria Building - 3rd post
I had hoped to post this on April 25th, it being Anzac day, and this post being about war heroes, but life got in the way, as it often does.
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Queen Victoria Building - 2nd post
On the Gallery level there is a display case of facsimiles of the Crown Jewels of England. I apologise for the quality of these, I suppose if I had been using an SLR camera with an appropriate lens the reflections may have been avoided. (Must ask Les, being the professional he would know the answer to that).
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The Queen Victoria Building, Sydney
Some more pics from the Sydney trip. The Queen Victoria Building was built in the late 19th century, and later fell into disrepair and was converted into office space. Fortunately someone had the foresight to remove the floor tiles and other decorative elements, and when the building was restored in the late 20th century it was possible to bring it ( Read more... ) -
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Woke up in the early hours feeling cold (Les had dragged the bedclothes over to his side of the bed), so decided to come out to the living room and do this post. I mostly do LJ about 3am as I am certain of being uninterrupted, and my brain is usually working quite well at this time ( Read more... ) -
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We have been quite busy since we returned from Sydney, complicated by our birthdays which are 2 days apart. We celebrated Les' birthday last weekend, and after 2 days of celebrations were left feeling too tired to bother about mine, which we have slotted in for tomorrow. Last Sunday we went to Les' daughter's home for lunch and a family catch-up. ( Read more... ) -
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The night before our departure for Sydney it was 11.30pm before I got to bed, and I was overtired and couldn't sleep. At 3.30am we got up and made a cup of tea, which meant we had plenty of time to get ready before being picked up by the taxi at 5.30am to go to the airport; we had to be there by 6am for a 7am departure. As I was walking out to the ( Read more... )
