5/366 Fresh fruit

If there is one thing I love at this time of year, it is the amount of fresh fruit available. Go and pick apricots off the tree yourself, pick strawberries and raspberries at the fruit farm.

But me, I love eating the raspberries with icing sugar and cream. Fattening I know, so maybe then a bit of a walk on the treadmill might cancel out the extra calories.

Yummy, raspberries and cream

3/366 More cleaning

With it being bushfire season at the moment in Australia, one thing recommended to keep your house safer, is to have your guttering cleaned out. Now I haven’t done this in probably 5 years, so today, a helpful young chap came around with his ladder, bucket and blower, then climbed on the roof to clean out my gutters.

I knew there was quite a bit of grass up there but according to him, most of it was dirt and dust blown up there by the wind.

Gutter clean out

2/366 Outside clean up as well

While cleaning the inside of the house, I have also started cleaning up the outside. This included having 12 tree stumps removed and ground down to lawn level. Here is the result of the largest stump behind the shed.

Sawdust after tree stump removed

I think all this sawdust flying around is now causing some sore eyes at my place.

 

1/366 A clean start

OK, so I didn’t do too well in 2011 at taking and publishing a photo each day. In fact, I lasted 32 days only, just over a month.

Well it is now 2012 and I have retired from 35 years of teaching. It is now time to sort out the resources and start cleaning rooms. How long will it take me to do this I wonder?

Time to clean

Anyone for chess?

chess

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

You often find life size chess games now in many malls, parks and shopping places. I found this set at a resting park near the bakery at Richmond.

Do you find chess a relaxing pastime?

The students in my class often get out the chess sets when they have finished work or when they have free choice time.

What are some of the things you enjoy doing to relax?

Heat wave

an image a day 060

Sunday, 30 January 2011

On this date two years ago, Tasmania had its highest recorded temperature. It was 42.2 degrees Celsius or 108 degrees Fahrenheit and was at Scamander on the east coast. The whole of South Eastern Australia had a heat wave during that period.

Whenever it gets too hot at my place (usually during the school holidays), the only thing I have to cool off is a portable fan which often goes to school with me as well until the end of March. As it rarely gets too hot in Tasmania, most classrooms don’t have any form of air conditioning.

What do you do when it gets too hot in your house or classroom?

Murals

mural

Friday, 28 January 2011

Murals are a great way to show what is happening in a town or a school. I know we had a mural near the weir in our town showing the history of the railway line that used to add water from the weir.

In Tasmania we have a town known for its murals – Sheffield in north western Tasmania. The town even hosts an annual mural fest with great prizes.

The mural pictured above was created at ‘Orana’, the Girl Guide camp in southern Tasmania. It was painted to represent 100 years of Guiding in Australia.

Do you have any murals in your town?

What would you put on a mural to represent your town or school?

Australia Day

lost on beach

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Well, I had a quiet Australia Day. Went to the local celebrations but, of course, forgot to take the camera. Sent some messages to my students from last year on their Moshi Monsters accounts. Left some comments on the teacher challenge blog. Someone had such a great time, they left some property on the beach.

What exciting things did you do today?

Dust leaves a trail

dust

Sunday, 23 January 2011

I’m already getting behind in posting an image every day. But I have an excuse. I have been cleaning my office area. As you can see, some areas have not been cleaned for a while. Layers of dust have accumulated, but at least the bookshelves are now cleared of books, ready for me to give the desk to my brother.

Do you have to clean your room every week or does your mum do it for you?

Coach

transport

Thursday, 20 January 2011

I was driving between Risdon Vale and Richmond yesterday and noticed this old piece of transport. I wondered what it had been.

Perhaps it was a Cobb and Co coach. The first Cobb and Co coach left Melbourne at 6am on this day in 1854. Where was it bound? The gold mining town of Bendigo.

Perhaps it was a gypsy caravan.

What do you think it might be?

Who was moved around in it?

Signposts

signposts

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

I love looking at signposts as I am driving around my state Tasmania or overseas.

The image today I thought was unusual. Sorry it is a bit blurry as I took it with zoom over about 50 metres.

Does it mean don’t drive over the paws of kangaroos between dusk and dawn?

Or is it a kangaroo lifting up a car with its feet?

What is an unusual signpost you have seen in your neighbourhood?

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