Hi again
Here’s the news for September!
Two birthdays here this month - our friend Denis's 80th and we've
cheated and also added Mike's birthday which was actually on 1st
October so should be in next month's blog. As I'm running late this month I
decided to included it anyway!
Denis's 80th birthday
Denis
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| Denis toasting the guests |
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| Rachel, Denis and Louise |
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| John and Emil preparing to sing a special birthday song |
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| Bruce reading his poem | |
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| The cake! |
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| Maya, Benjamin, Denis and Silvia |
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| Anna and Bruce |
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| More guests |
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| Wild flowers at Denis's - Donkey Orchid |
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| View of the house |
The news from Denmark (WA) is that Emil has
been in a school play and Maya had a Spring Festival also at school. They all
managed to get up here for Denis's party, and stayed a couple of days with us, so
it was lovely to see them all.
Here's some photos of Emil's play
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| Emil is 3rd from right - with his uke |
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| Emil |
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| Collection of Ukes used by the school |
Jo and the girls have continued to win
prizes in various art shows once again! Jo has her paintings in so many
exhibitions all over the place that it's hard to keep up with her, chuckle!
Simon is still very
busy writing and you can see his books
on the Amazon.com web page - just look on his Hal Spacejock web page for the links and news of his latest books.
Mike has also managed
at last to get his short story of one of his Spanish walks from Santiago to
Fisterra, then on to Muxia and back to Santiago onto The Amazon pages too. You
can 'Look Inside' them to see an excerpt. Here are the links:
Amazon Spain: (There's no 'Look Inside' available on this page)
Mike's birthday:
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| Mike and Maisie |
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| Tucking in............ |
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| .........ditto........! |
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| Time to chat....... |
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| Only one candle! (73 was too many!) |
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| Having another blow.......... |
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| ....this should do it, chuckle! |
Finally here are some
interesting photos of some of the plants and wildlife around us.
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| Freesias in our garden |
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| and a red tailed black cockatoo in our tree...... |
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| ....stripping it of the fruit!! |
Koi in the farm dam
Some wild flowers along the CanningRiver..........
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| ......a strange caterpillar...... |
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| .....and a family of swans. |
That about brings us up to date!
Enjoy! See you all again next month.
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