Tuesday isn't tennis day either!

Well, it is about time I brought you more from the mad house...I mean from My Place...
I found some photos yesterday that I hadn't showed you...there will be more to come , no doubt!

I caught up with John and Wendy for lunch one day before I went to Melbourne..now I know they will get cross with me for putting their photo on here, so that is why I didn't put it first!

In Melbourne Robert enjoyed doing his gymnastics on the swing set!

Miriam tried too...but she only used one hand!

They both love running and jumping on the trampoline! I found Miriam one day, jumping and chanting

"socks and Bare feet"

Obviously the requirements allowable for getting on the trampoline !

They both like to settle down to writing and sandpit work too! Their fine motor skills are coming along! Not to mention their language skills too! All these perfectly formed sentences tumbling out of their mouths.."Grandma push me..higher Grandma Higher! Over my head"..what did he want to do..a complete revolution around and over the top?

These must have been taken when Hannah was at kindy...as there isn't a photo of Hannah...maybe in the next post Hannah...(ah there she is hiding on the swing with Miriam back there)!

Ah, there are so few photos of them both together...and then they don't both smile or look at you at the same time, as evidenced in these shots!

Yesterday I went out to the university to read a book in the library that a Melbourne blogger (David McMahon) has written...Vegemite and Vindaloo...quite interesting. I found a visitor's book from way back in the seventies, and wondered if Jill's name was there...couldn't see it. But Xavier Herbert's was! The funny thing was that David told me his book was available from Eastern Publishing...an Indian company...and in the penguin copy I was reading, which said it had been published in all different countries, it said "only to be sold on the Indian subcontinent"!!! mmm...is he trying to make it difficult to buy one? (see footnote below)

The scrub turkeys were hard at work even in the cafe where I had a Chai ...(sorry, not as nice as the ones I had in the Inwood Cafe, in NY)

I love going to Wordsmith's cafe there during the holidays when there are less students cluttering up the place!

Drove down to the river on the way home from the uni to see if the jacarandas were flowering out there...they weren't though. So I took a photo of the bridge instead...I can't remember the name..was it the Goodwill Bridge...no I think it is named after a famous university woman...mm...what a memory!

Sorry I keep showing you these seeds and seed pods...they were all shining prettily in the early morning sunshine on my walk today! Another name I don't know...wonder if Jill does, though I don't suppose it is a native.

And this (gum?) tree is in full flower up the road too...mmm...must be hayfever season?

The scrub turkey at my place was active this morning early...so I shot him! Well, this is the shot...pretty good...I think he was getting cranky with me as he was scratching like mad! Yesterday he just ran away. His mound is getting big...and my yard pretty bare...nice to have someone to come and scrape up the leaves for me, eh? Not to mention the grass!

And just to finish...here are some colorful nasturtians for you...I was going to hop out of the car and photograph a rock orchid until I noticed it had passed it's use by date...so I shot these instead!





Footnote...on buying or asking for info in book shops.

I have asked for 3 books lately in bookshops...to see if they could sell me a copy.

The Cellist of Sarajevo (read this in NY..very good)

The Bookseller of Kabul (reading this currently, tho a part of my brain tells me I have read it somewhere before...mm..)

and Vegemite and Vindaloo...by David McMahon

and the last couple of bookshops had to ask me how to spell these words...any wonder the first shop said they didn't have them...perhaps they couldn't spell them either?

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