Author: Miss W.

I was a middle school teacher who retired in 2011 but still loves helping others. In my spare time I enjoy tracing my family history and volunteering at local library to help others with their genealogy as well as chatting with my friends around the world. But most of all, I enjoy travelling and visiting new places.

Beyond the black stump

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Black stump

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Tomorrow is Australia Day but I wonder how many of my visitors to my various blogs really know how to speak Australian. This is called ‘strine’ .

Try translating the following:

The bludger was watching the aerial ping pong on the box and using the Aussie salute.

The Aussie battler was away with the fairies and had burnt the bangers and mash.

Use this website to create some Aussie sentences and leave them in the comments here.

If you are not Australian, what are some words you use that we would have trouble understanding?

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On the water

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yachting

Monday, 24 January 2011

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?

Dust leaves a trail

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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?

Hayfever still

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sheaves of hay

Saturday, 22 January 2011

Now I know why I am still sniffing and having runny eyes. Usually I get bad hayfever during September/October, yet here it is in January and it is still happening. Driving along some of the back roads near my place, sheaves of hay getting ready to be rolled up into bales.

How many of you get hayfever or something similar during Spring? Are you still having effects now?

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Snails

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snails

Friday, 21 January 2011

A little bit of rain and what do I see?

Snails, everywhere. On the paths, in the grass, slimy tracks on the plant pots.

Finally these chewing on the coffee cup in my garden.

What other animals do you see in your garden after a slight rain?

Coach

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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?

Cleaning up after your animals

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horse owners

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

I thought we were supposed to clean up during Spring yet here in Australia where it is summer, many bloggers are ‘Spring cleaning’ their pages as part of the activities in the teacher challenges. As you many have noticed in my previous images, I am trying to clean my office (very slow job … lol).

So why is it, that horse owners can’t clean up after their animals especially in a parking area?

Do you have any stories to tell about owners cleaning up after their animals or not?

Signposts

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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?

Cleaning

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cleaning

Monday, 17 January 2011

OOPS!!

I was so busy cleaning my office area that I forgot to post my picture for today (it is Tuesday really). But an update on my office area – I can now see floor space. I will soon be able to get that new computer desk in there.

Now, my mother says just get in there and do it all in one hit, but I enjoy playing computer games so have to do a bit of tidying up every time I finish a game.

Are there any computer games that you really enjoy playing rather than cleaning your room?

Windy night

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Sunday, 16 January, 2011

Last night we had a lot of wind blowing through our suburb. Above is a photo of the tree across the road from the entrance to my house. It is a Eucalyptus or gum tree as we call them in Australia. Many of the Eucalyptus species have stringy or loose bark that will fly off in a breeze. I have also included the bark as it landed next to my drive.

Do you have any trees that lose bark? Or do you have trees that lose leaves instead? How often do you have to clean up the backyard from all the leaves and bark?

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Where do they go?

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battery life

Saturday, 15 January 2011

Two weeks into the challenge and I am still keeping up. But so many of the toys and gadgets we use have these little batteries in them that don’t always last the lifetime of the technology they are in.

I have three pieces of technology in my home using batteries – my digital camera,  my keyboard and my mouse. What should we do with these batteries after they have finished their rechargeable life?

What toys do you have in your house that need batteries? What do you do with the batteries when they no longer work?

Doctors and needles

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drawing blood

Friday, 14 January 2011

Do you like going to the doctors? Despite being overweight, I rarely have to visit the doctor’s office. So during my school holidays in January, I head there to have my annual checkup. I have a mother with diabetes and high blood pressure and a father with cholesterol problems and I have thyroid problems. So this visit usually ends up with me having to fast overnight to have 2 or more tubes of blood taken out of me the next day.

Then comes the next problem … can we find somewhere that will allow that amount of blood out of the arm? Lots of capillaries close to the surface, but they need to go deeper. Hence the image for today.

Do you like going to the doctor or dentist where you need injections? Why?

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