The view from my "office"

[RooFlyer]

For lovers of rainbows, this is from the ANC (oops! ABC!) FB site: The Nut at Stanley, NW Tas.

 

[RooFlyer]

Today is the neighbourhood winter solstice ‘do’.

Fire ( just started)



Mulled wine



and the nude swim for later!! ( stay tuned)

 

[RooFlyer]

OK, the party is getting out of hand:

 

[VPS]

Here it is - view from northern suburb over towards airport. Would have loved to capture a plane in the shot, but my daughter took it. The double was starting on RHS and higher than original rainbow so of course daughter missed it

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and when I got home and looked photos on computer i did just get a little of the double and you get a bit of reflection in the hotel

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

OK, the party is getting out of hand:

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SO is that a hot seat ??

 

[Pushka]

SO is that a hot seat ??

Tasmania has a hot spot! Quick, shut the borders.

 

[Muppet501st]

View from yesterday’s office.

 

[Muppet501st]

Met Henry, Franklin Manors resident doggo

 

[Muppet501st]

Tonight’s view

 

[RooFlyer]

View from yesterday’s office.

All fabulous! Well done!

 

[QF WP]

Walking my dog this morning and came across 3 curlews - wasn’t quick enough to whip out my phone while they were standing, they got spooked and had started flying away (got two of them starting their takeoff roll)

Bird profiles - BirdLife Australia

www.birdlife.org.au

As they are nearby, will try and get a photo without the dog present

 

[JessicaTam]

I spent an hour or so at the Brickman exhibition at the Queensland Museum.



Unfortunately @ReLoad wasn't around.

 

[OZDUCK]

It has been chilly overnight in Perth for the last few days and we have delayed our morning bike rides a bit. The advantage is that you get mornings like this.

Looking upriver on the the Canning River from the Kent St Weir

 

[QF WP]

Oh my kids (and wife) would love to see that Lego exhibition as we've watched both series so far...knew he was on HFC, but didn't know he was @ReLoad. Wow, memories...

 

[QF WP]

Walking my dog yesterday and looking at the vast changes our local council are making to the creek surrounds - that’s a lot of plants (which I believe the majority will probably die). They are trying to water them to get early growth and ground traction, but I think they’re shoveling uphill.




Yesterday was so cold on our work floor tiles, my dog happily disappeared under the quilt I provided



on this mornings walk, the low cloud over Hanson Quarry (Ferny Grove).

 

[Flashback]

Round 2 vs the builders next door goes to us, we now have a new fence (they destroyed our existing one with sloppy demolition work.....). That's 2-0 to us so far with many more rounds to come.

Just in time to protect the strawberries which are starting to ripen up. I may even get back to the UK in time to sample them

 

[drron]

Rainbows at my office -LGH.

 

[OZDUCK]

It being another lovely, if cool day, we went for a drive up into the Darling Ranges and visited Mundaring Weir. This dam was built to provide the water for the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme. It was completed in 1903 and the wall was heightened in the early 1950's.



As kids we would occasionally go to see it overflow - not these days.



The No1 Pumping Station one of the original 8 steam powered stations on the way to Kalgoorlie. In the late 1920's early 1930's my father used to cut timber as fuel for one of them.



It is only open on weekends but there are big windows



The chimney - no way would I be climbing that ladder.



Most of the water in Perth's dams came from the 2 desalination plants.





The Pumping Station from above

 

[RooFlyer]

Mundaring Weir.

Super interesting, thanks.

 

[Flashback]

Back in the big smoke (Conakry), busy few days ahead but good to be back in relative comfort for a while before I head home for self-isolation





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