Parramatta Heritage tour

Tuesday 14 June

With a lot of rain coming down we

set out on a bus tour to visit Parramatta.

We were not very lucky that even if it

stopped rainning each time we arrived

to a viewing spot the rain would start.

So I took a lot of blurrrrrrrrr photos

through the windows.

Strangely enough we had a really good

day.

 Our tour guide Historian Judith Dunn

made the tour very interesting.

 Murphy House

 St Patrick's Cathedral

On the 19 February 1996 it was

destroyed by fire. only the wall were left

standing.

 Robin, Tricia and Sigrid

We were suppose to have morning tea in the

park near the lake, but we had it in the church hall.

 The children gate. It cost $35 000

 Details from the children gates

 The pool for adult baptism

 Mary MacKillop

 Fair Madona from Germany

linden wood carving

 The new church part

 organ from Great Britain

The crown of thorns

 The Altar in grey Chinese granite

2m sq and 1m high and weighing 11 tonnes

They reposed it on a bed of crush ice

to position it and reove the suports.

 Parramatta Jail

 Theatre

 Female factory

 Baker cart

Parramatta river



Windy, wet Manly

Monday 3 June

Queen's birthday long week end.

We stayed indoor yesterday as

it rained all day.

Today we went for a walk from

Queenscliff to Shelly beach

 Ready for rain.

We were lucky we only had a few drops.

 nice rock formation

Claude looking through the sculpture

empty Manly beach

 very windy

 There is a lot of contoversy about those

rain water pipes.

There has been few surfing accidents.

I have known those pipes to be here

for more than 40years.

I thought I should take a photo for

memory just in case they are removed

in the future.

 A surfing competition was going on,

but too cold for us to stop and watch.

 a wind blown Claude

An empty Queenscliff beach.

On our way back we stopped at the

North Steyne SLSC to have a

look at a paintings exhibition.

Nice paintings...a bit pricy



A new garden

Friday 10 June

It had taken us a few week end to clear

this bit of the garden.

We had ivy and a lot of jasmine

growing all over a little bush.

We removed everything.

We filled up a recycling bin

just with roots.

To celebrate we went to the

nursery and bought 3 camelias

to put against the bare wall.

The problem is finding a solution to cover

the man hole so that the water board

has access.

With all the climbing vines they could not

see it so we were better off

but it was looking very untidy.

And this is near the path to the

front door.

The rest of the garden is not that bad.

I like this part with all the colouful foliages.



car crash

Wednesday 8 June

Coming back from aqua at about 11.30 am

I was going up Warringah road in the right

lane of the 3 carriages way.

A misubishi Triton was in the middle lane

just a bit in front of me.

When we near a side road a car came

fast and went in front of the Triton

and lost its speed (as it is a hard hill).

The Triton driver not to crash into it swerved

right into me.

I got catapulted accross the medium strip right into the

 path of 3 lanes of traffic coming down.

There was a lot of horns blarring.

I managed to stop the car without colliding with anybody.

A passing policeman moved the car for me

as I was shaking baddly.

Somebody was looking after me.

Both the young driver of the Triton and I

were ok, and the car is not very damaged.

But every pannel on the passenger side

need work on or changing.

The assessor said that the passenger

side will need to be respray.

Yep very lucky.!!

With all the noise I was very surprised that the

car was still in one piece.

Friday 10 June

 Waiting for the assessor

Monday 13 June

Just been for a drive.

I am still a bit jumpy but I slept well last night

and did not have a nightmare.