Avalon

We found this wreck on Google Earth and today paddled out to find it. How weird is that? We tried to follow a map we'd drawn of some dirt tracks that get you close but they were all signed with nasty trespassers will be prosecuted type signs. Great day, although naughtliy I am sunburnt.

My thyroid is under acting at the moment due to too many meds, and I've decided that that means I don't really need much food. My weight is increasing in spite of my minimal intake. That means I need even less food by my logic. So I'm going to be cheap maintenance from now on. Tomorrow the doc might disabuse me of the notion but I'm trying the best that I can. They say that some peope deliberately ditch the meds so their body will produce too much thyroid hormone and they'll lose weight... maybe when I was young I might have considered it... (joking).

Lovliest weekend in ages. Family, did a lot around the house, got out on the water... all good and tomorrow off! Yay!

The Curtain Is Up!!

Not the best photo, but the room is in the dark part of the house.

I'm thinking of couchng some knot-work onto it though, it doesn't fee finished. Perhaps border the ship bit and do some kind of fisherman's loopiness underneath??? Waddya reckon??? Hmmm?

Tanya

Yackandandah again, out the back of Granny's pub. My other Grandma did up this doll and it was donated to the Yack Mardi-Gras. I remember the day... brass band... big parade through the town... I was just or nearly five. The doll had a sash like a real 'Miss Somewhere'. Miss Yackandandah. I don't remember the details, but Granny must have had a raffle which I WON!!! So, we took Tanya home and she was relegated to the top of the cupboard in the spare room, because she was special. Ear-marked 'for later on'.

Not long after, we had a house fire in the spare room, from an electrical fault. Tanya bit the big one. I clearly remember my dream (nightmare) of her going up in flames and I woke screaming and calling her name.

Ross wonders if that's where it all began.

My first death. Now I see this photo, she looks to be shrouded and I was amazed to see that she isn't the elegant, beautiful, mature woman of a doll that I remembered, but an ordinary girl. I love her just the same.

I got very sick after that and was given a new doll when I got out of hossie, I named her Danielle and thought of her as Tanya's daughter.

Here's The Whole Story

Apparently I wasn't allowed to climb on my grandfather's pile of bricks, as you would expect. My Dad caught it all on film. I bet I got away with it too... it always worked in the future (the smile), no reason to think it didn't work then.

Flashback Friday

Up near Hall's Gap, 28 years old... I remember thinking I was fat at the time! If only I knew how much I wasn't...

Always shy in front of a camera.

Grandma & Dah (Phyllis Lucy and Ronald) & Their Daughter Judith (Me Mum)

My favourite photo of Mum

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The lovebirds at the beach. While they were courting.

I finished the curtain today... and almost finished the red felt cushion. Stay tune...

Fancy Dress, Yackandandah, 1960-61

Mum was about 27-8. There were always lots of fancy-dress do's in the old days. We used to win too, because my other Grandma was a tailor and loved to make fun stuff. This is next to my Granny and Gramps's pub (The Star Hotel) in Yackandandah. Bomba there is actually my brother Glenn.

I left my virginity up there somewhere. Lovely town.