using my camera more often
This photo is not one of mine but all around the world on this date, members of the Scouting and Guiding movements celebrate “Thinking Day” where they remember the joint birthdays of their founders Lord and Lady Baden Powell.
Image: ‘IMGP0399‘
Remember,my parents, squirrel and I headed to Maria Island during January. We didn’t make it on the island because of bad weather, but one of the other people on the boat sent me this great image to use in my blog.
Now that I have retired from classroom teaching, I needed to sort out all my teaching resources ready for a book stall next week. Many of the books were still at school, so I went down today to bring them home. One teacher was finding some good bargains in there and saved me bringing home extra weight in the car.
May I buy these, Sue?
My mum is an avid knitter. She creates over 350 bears each year and puts them in the Samaritan’s Purse Christmas appeal where shoe boxes are packed with toys, school items, hygiene and other goods. I’ll often get some school items and help pay for the postage.
Knitted bears
Thought I would introduce you to my parents who were at the barbecue yesterday. SnowyBob had done a bike ride, while mum (Phyl) had organized the cooking.
SnowyBob and Phyl
Happy Australia Day!!
Every year, my parents organize a barbecue at the Girl Guide Camp for the bike riders and easy walkers in the Hobart Walking Club. One rider I noticed today also had great glasses.
Happy Australia Day!!
What a great idea on a hot day! Kayak, canoe, slalom- get out on the water and paddle around visiting some of the local places on the foreshore.
Water activities
Went to lunch today at my parents’ place. Mum’s sister Margaret was also there as was my niece Georgia. Dad (SnowyBob) doesn’t particularly like roast meals, so when mum wants one, we all get an invite. This is what remained of a home made Christmas pudding by the time we had all had a slice. These are made and cooked in a cloth then boiled in a saucepan.
Home made Christmas pudding
Let's chat!
A couple of weeks ago, @mgraffin asked if I would mind running a #globalclassroom chat on Twitter.
How difficult could that be, I thought.
Well today I found out:
But I think the participants, from many parts of the globe, all shared and received information on how they are connecting their students in a global world by communicating and collaborating.
Here is a link to a Google document where you could add the global projects you have taken part in.
Want to know more about #globalclassroom? Then check out the blog here.
Have you and/or your students taken part in a global project?
Please add a link in the comment section telling us about it.
In 1796, John Caesar, a convict from the West Indies, was still at large as Australia’s first bushranger. It was on this day that the government offered a reward of 5 gallons of spirit for his capture.
I have 8 convicts so far in my family tree – none of them became bushrangers but all settled down in the then Van Diemans Land and raised families.
When we studied convicts at school we borrowed a kit from Port Arthur Education centre and this included clothes often worn by local convicts.
What other bushrangers have you heard of in your state?
Now that I have finished the cleaning (sort of) I took some time off to visit the docks in Hobart. During January, this part of Hobart includes visitors for the Sydney to Hobart yacht race as well as people visiting for the Taste of Tasmania food festival. Occasionally, we have large cruise ships visiting as well.
But I wonder where these people are heading off to?
Have you ever been on a sailing yacht or a cruise liner?
Where did you go?
I am the family historian in my family. I love doing genealogy and have one line of the ancestors back to a baptism in Bedfordshire, England in 1603. As well as finding information, I am often given lots of photos, often with nothing written on the back of them to identify who is in the photo.
One relative decided to clean out their attic, and lo and behold, there were portraits of my grandfather, great grandfather and great grandmother. Of course, the insects had also found them.
I have spent a lot of money having the portraits fixed and digitally recorded, but I thought I would put the original image on here today.
Do you have a family historian? Do you have lots of photos that don’t have any names on the back?