Spring florals

  I took this image on my smartphone, the flowers were so pretty in their flower bed. Not quite Spring but the warmth in Brisbane, had already started to see a few flowers bloom. I then decided to play with it in Photoshop and add some textures and make it all painterly and pretty. ~…

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Winter Outings – Mount Tamborine

Back in September last year, I was speaking at a conference in Surfers Paradise for the Australian Photographic Society, Moth came along and he went out and about while I was working and networking. I sent him to Mount Tamborine to see the waterfalls and have a look around. Due to the limited time, I…

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Furbaby Friday…Dexter update

Update on our little man…Dexter. Nearly 6 months old and weighing in at a whopping 6.8kg (real big…not lol). He survived his desexing the other week, you would never have known he had a procedure, trying to keep him calm and quiet proved a complete joke 🤣 He is fearless and cheeky and is a…

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Share Your World – 27th March 2019

More questions this week from Sparkosacombustiblemind for the Share Your World weekly challenge, so here we go…. What is the best pick me up that you know of?  To shake you out of the blues? Music is generally what gets me out of a funk, fun music that I just can’t help singing along with or even…

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Monday’s Musings

I have been a little quiet of late, our first week back from New Zealand was spent catching up with friends, family, washing and photos! Then…I got hit with Shingles! At first, I thought it was a bug bite, then an allergic reaction, by the third day I knew it was something worse and went…

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Puppy Spam…

As I briefly mentioned the other day, we have a new member of the family… This is Dexter an 8-week old Pugalier (Pug X Cavalier) X Jack Russell, so a bit of a mixed mutt, that’s OK with us! I hope he has the temperament of a Cavvy, the tenacity of a Pug, and the…

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All Hail the conquering Heroes…

I jest, but only just. We are home, we left nearly three weeks ago, and while it went quick, it seems like a lifetime went by as well. Nothing changed when we arrived home, there is still dusting, vacuuming and clothes to wash (including three weeks worth of washing!) We travelled 2,942km from door to…

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WPC – A Face in the crowd

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge – is a face in the crowd, and while I have some crowd shots below, I thought I would share this special one from this morning. Today’s feature image is a smartphone snap, this is taken inside the Victorian Police Academy Chapel, where I got to watch the daughter of…

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Furbaby Friday…

Just coz, it’s been awhile 🙂 Teddy (aka Ted E Bear), was being particularly cute the other evening, so I snapped some photos with my phone. So, please excuse the lower than normal picture quality and please excuse his manky eyes, it’s his hay fever season! Poor little mite gets runny eyes, nose and sneezes a…

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Summer Outings – Getting a little culture

I recently had a chance to visit Melbourne’s Pop-up Globe, the world’s first full-scale temporary working replica of one of the greatest theatres in history, the (Second) Globe. Not wanting to miss the immersive experience of Shakespeare performed in the space for which it was written, I dragged my friend Sue along, she has never…

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