Art from the street

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Art from the streets

Cockatoo Island

strange

lot of them were spooky

I wonder how they are going to remove all

the graffiti when the exhibition is finished

well it was not our cup of the

I am adding my own graffiti

the rain washed it away



Cockatoo Island

Sunday 11 December

Visit to Cockatoo Island

It started on a sunny morning

but rain was predicted.

We parked the car in Milson point

and walk across the harbour bridge to

Circular quay.

Claude had to pay $10.60 for the ferry

me...I only pay $2.50

the advantage of being a senior citizen.



inside the tunnel.

graffiti art on one side



some old building but every where was that

graffiti art.

where we had our picnic lunch

(noticed my new hair cut?)

an old church

 the camping ground

just walking, 2pm the sky was all black

and the rain came down

we did not have the first ferry back but we were

on this one and those poor people had to wait

for the next one.

we had a lovely day a shame it had to stop so early.

we could not walk back across the harbour bridge

we had to take the train.

I used my same ticket and Claude had to pay

 an extra $3.20





Street party

Saturday 10 December

We are having a street party.

They closed down the bottom of the Avenue

for the children to play.

It is amazing how many small children

there is. Living in a dead end I only go

up the street and in the car so I do

not know most of those people.

Claude love "white Christmas"

but I don't make it anymore as it

is too much for one person.

But this morning I did a batch to

take to the party so Claude was able to have some.



Lunch at St Patrick

Thursday 8 December

 St Patrick used to be a monastery

 The catholic church sold it

now it is a cookery school, well all to do with

running restaurant and hotel

(Jenny, Jan, Joan ans me)

 today 3 students were being tested on service

(Tricia, Sandra, Rosina and Pam)

Marie, Camille and Marge.

We had a 3 courses for $30.

There was only 2 choices of each courses.

I had baked ricotta (or soup)

chicken with lentils (or prawn with gnocchi)

and I was good I had the fruits salad



A visit

Tuesday 6 December

We had the visit of Jo with Amelia and Joshua

 A big surprise...Joshua is sitting up

 Amelia chatting on the phone.

( I wonder where she is copying this :o)

I bought this toy at AKEA for Amelia

and we put it together. she got very

cranky when I put the Allen key away,

she was not interested in the toy, she

only wanted to screw it together.

Joshua has now 2 teeth and he is such a good baby, no crying



School for Senior Christmas lunch

Tuesday 6 December

Today is the "school for senior Christmas lunch"

I go every Tuesday morning to the school

to learn quilling.

We make beautiful cards.

Well mine are not so good most of the time

but I enjoy making them.

I am the youngest in the group

and I have a lot of fun.

Every week I am looking forward to going there.

singing Christmas carols

L-R: Lucette (french) Beth and her husband (he

plays scrabble and indoor bowling at the school)

forgot her name and Marie

Coral, Anne and Jessica

forgot her name,Elaine J, Joan and Elaine M

Elaine S and Dorothy

oh, this is me standing taking photos

Not all our group came to the lunch.

we are the biggest group at he school.

Very often I don't even talk to the people

at the other tables so I don't know them

that well

The school is in the church hall.

This young man,just 2 months ago became

a new minister. He read us a Christmas story

The major gave a speech

and then it was food:

vegetarian quiche or chicken

potato salad, garden salad and bread

Christmas pudding with custard.

All very yummy.

I went for second....

the old people don't eat much

After lunch 2 school choirs came to sing for us

They sang beautifully

they have sang at the opera

And we finish off with the door price.

And Ann won $40, she was very happy.

Her daughter is on TV on SBS 2 she is a chef

Peta Mathias

Christmasy Manly

Sunday 4 December

A very grey day.

Claude has been working all week end.

And we are climbing the walls.

So we went for a walk to Manly.

 

The pub had nice silver decorations

 

Also it was "Ocean Care Day"

the guy was covered with plastic bags.

But they kept on flying off so he had to

run after them. It was fun to watch.....

And suddenly the rain came. We were lucky

we had a large umbrella.