Sunday 28 August 2011

In Hyde Park


Each of the past three weeks have been similar in activities ie Scrabble,computers etc. 
The baby birds are out flying with their parents but whenever I get near they seem to be disturbed so I have'nt taken any photos of them yet.
John and I went to Parliment House to view a photographic exhibition and to get there we walked thru Hyde Park and then onto the Mitchell Library which had a display of Shop and Shopping.  We topped the day by having Chinese meal in Haymarket.
Theres an Aussie movie out called Red Dog and we thought it very good.  I had heard these stories about Red Dog on audio tapes and the film did deviate a bit but it still is good viewing.
Fridays walk with U3A from Macquarie Park to Thornleigh was hard with lots of ups and down steps and one of the new members just made it to the end of the trail.  Luckily a police van (with dog) was there and the guy kindly dropped two at the station as I dont think she would have made it any further.

Sunday 7 August 2011


Mamma and papa bird have been very busy feeding three chicks and here is one curious one looking up when I opened the top of the nesting box.  Today the baby birds are just over a month and it will only a couple more days before they will venture out of the box to the outside world.
It was a great week weather wise so we were able to spend some time in the garden.  Here is the hard worker preparing to plant a new shrub in the white pot.  We've planted 6 types of potatoes and divided the rhubarb, keeping two plants and will take the rest to the gardening afternoon to share.
Four out of six games at scrabble this week, so either I'm improving or they were not concentrating. 


Four of us did the prewalk from Spit Bridge to Manly.  The last time John and I did the walk, we got a bit lost but we found where we went wrong so there will be no worries next week.  It was a great day and the weather couldn't be better.