First fire of the year

Sunday 24 June

Claude has been sick all week.
He even spent Friday in bed, not being able to move.
Saturday he stay on the lounge, but on Sunday
after lunch we went for a walk in the sunshine.
In the evening we made our first fire of the year.

oh toastie feet, wonderfull.

Sights around Manly

Sunday 17 June

No rain! I can't believe it.

Claude and I went for a walk in Manly,
along the beach front to Shelly Beach.
Where we sat in the sun and did a bit
of people watching.

Some one had put crochet bikinis on the statues.
Some one reported it and it was in our local
newspaper during the week.
Nobody is owing to have done it yet.

a stretched combi.

($500 to rent.)

well 2 sights that I never seen before!

My own play group

Saturday 16 June

We went to have lunch at Jo and Shane's

They are looking after the 2 little girls of Jo's
friend Meinir, who is in Melbourne.
She is singing the Welsh anthem at the rugby match.

making purple play dough

Nia showing me her pancake with strawberries

Amelia had eaten all her strawberries

time to make something else.

Joshua kept us entertained.

Mali had a fixation with an odd pair of shoes.

Claude and I took 40 photos....most are all blurred. It is a shame.
one funny one was Claude putting the shoes on Mali and after she
had once again taken them off, Amelia was putting them on her.
The children played well all together. And I was tired. So here is
hoping for a good night sleep as I did not sleep the night before.
It is not fun to get old!

Sydney light

Sydney Lights

Friday 8 June

Every years, Sydney illuminate some building.

Tonight we went to the Opera house for a

Brahms and Shostakovich concert,

so we were able to see some of them.

it was a bit spooky to watch. It look like it was crumbling.

across the bay the museum of contemporary art

the girl was moving across the sail

and it look like she was falling off it

when the concert was finished, I wanted to walk to
circular quay, but Claude thought that it was toooo cold

Sunday 10 June

We went to a concert at the ABC studios

there too they had lights

we saw Tamara Anna Cislowska playing the piano, music written
by a Sydney composer, Elena Kats-Chermin.

Gold Coast holidays: day 6

Gold Coast Holidays :day 6

Wednesday 6 June

42 years today that we became Australians

We left Coffs Harbour under the
grey sky, but it was not raining.

we stopped for coffee at the Zebu in Port Macquarie

and it was raining again

we drove to the top of the hill to have a look
at the big waves.
A lot of people had the same ideas. They
were all taking photos. But with my small
camera we can't really see the surf.

we saw a lot of rainbows on our way home.
But we did not find the pot of gold............

End of our holiday.

Gold Coast Holidays: day 5

Gold Coast Holidays: day 5

Tuesday 5 June

Breakfast at the marina

What a difference a bit of sunshine do.

We are walking around the ground of the resort
for the first time.

water feature every where.

the pool bar was closed.

views of our room and what we can see too (next 4 photos)

our room is right in the middle of the back
building, at the top with the curtains open.

our room top room with curtains open

and then we went out to the beach

the resort view from the beach

the resort employed a lifesaver, but nobody was in the water.

Claude was almost alone on the beach

all long the beach was a very nice path.

We took it for a while.

the sails of the marina Mirage.
We left the resort shortly afterwards
and made the journey back home.

arrived at Coffs harbour and met back with the rain.