Thursday, 2 May 2013

Vegemite


A blog about Australia without Vegemite is like.... I don't know, but the things one finds when googling Vegemite! This was quite sweet though, good on you little Tom Morton from Woodgate Court Ferny Hills.


Vegemite

BY TOM MORTON
AGE 12

On my lunch was vegemite,
a very brown and awful site.
I swapped it with Jake,
who gave me a cake.
But my brother Sam,
he had some ham.
So the cake he got,
and ate the lot.
I swapped with “switch”,
and got a sandwich.
I took a bite,
“Oh My God.”
VEGEMITE!

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Giving it a spin

(Irish spinning wheel - around 1900 - Library of Congress Collection - from Wikipedia)

Back to the sheep farm. I was wondering... can we emulate that photograph? I mean, this is a sheep farm after all. Let's see...


We got the wool, we got the spinning wheel, and we got... the graceful spinning lady!






She seems to know what she's doing. But I'm easy to impress :-)) 
And we have much, much more. A bonfire, a few glasses of wine, a caravan palace, and tchitt-tchaaatt of course. What a great evening it was.





(photo by Henny)

Monday, 29 April 2013

The mirrors of Tenno

We will soon go back to the Bruns farm in Waitpinga, I know you are waiting for the kangaroos, but let's make a brief stop in Tenno, a small town in the suburbs of Hiroshima, since this is where Marie's Suitcase has been dragged to last weekend (well, it wasn't that heavy).
I have been to Tenno a few times but only now did I notice that this town is graced with a rather high number of mirrors. Maybe this is a good way to show you bits and pieces of Japanese suburban (suburbian?) streets.



This one was strangely (nicely) blue, but you can still see the convenience store.


Every mirror needs its Narcissus :-)




I am not sure how long those electoral posters have been there and for how many elections. It seems to me that the same old posters are always hanging on the walls and are never put down or replaced. But that is probably just my (wrong) impression.


See what you want to see... :-)





Pinboard. 








The speedway running just behind that roof. The town continues on the other side of it.





I don't know what happened there. Old age?


Narcissus had to come back, of course.



The railway crossing gate. 











Playing...


And I leave you here with this view of the bay of Hiroshima and its oyster racks. I hope you enjoyed the promenade...

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Uneven Surface


A short break along the road to Adelaide, maybe not far from Willunga, as far as my memory goes. A lot of vineyards. Next uneven surface is 5km ahead, they say. Well, we had our own uneven surface right in front of that sign, picking fresh almonds from a tree an cracking them open in the car. As I am writing this it just occurred to me, almonds need two protective surfaces, both of them uneven....



Wednesday, 17 April 2013

What is it?


What are those thingies on the ceiling?
Hint: It is the kitchen ceiling, and they are not worms.

Friday, 12 April 2013

More AAART


Art by Henny.
I apologise for the poor quality of the pictures, they don't do justice to the gorgeous art. This room is very dark but I never like to use the flash. 




Art by Eeedie.