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purple beauty Another glorious iris from the garden beds on the main street in Giverny.

pretty maids all in a row More street flowers in Giverny. I love the frilly edges of these tulips pretty maids all in a row

still life with tap I love Monet's blue kitchen with its flash brass fixtures and copper pots. This pot on the sink is one of my favourite things still

Street flower, Giverny This one wasn't even in Monet's garden, but the streets of Giverny are lined with flower beds, and this iris was so striking, people were lining up to take its photo

Monet's garden Looking out through the window of Monet's house, into his garden. Spring 2023

it was Mickey's birthday When we visited France last year, it was a dream come true to go to French Disneyland. We both have happy memories of watching Disneyland on a Sunday night when we were kids. Of course the best episodes were the cartoons. I always thought it was a dud week when we got...

Sunny day My sister gave my some sunflower seeds and I am loving this glorious show

Short n tall Hydrangeas are my favourites. Here's a selection from my garden this year.

It was a damp one My son was 100% determined that we would have Christmas in the park. His son spent the whole day zipping round on his scooter; he didn't even have a raincoat. Got SO wet. Oh well, at least we didn't have to fight anyone for parking spaces!

check the sender's email I received two emails this morning, confirming, well, something or other from who? And for rather a lot of money, considering I'm going to have to raid the piggy bank for groceries. I could have asked hubby about it, but he was in a meeting, so I went to my go-to hack...

Halls decked! I love to see Melbourne's laneways getting all decked up for Christmas.

Down the track On a recent trip north, I had to stop the car by the railway tracks and get a couple of shots. I love the perspective of those rails going off into the distance in their long, straight lines.

The original Internet? When I was little, my most beloved TV show was The Magic Circle Club. Every Monday they would start an adventure and resolve it by the end of the week. One time I even got to be in the studio audience. It was fun to see how they made the show, though I was very...

Eiffel spotlight This is one of my favourite pictures from my birthday in 2017. We had such a great night and I loved that light shows that the tower put on.

holiday memory I love when my phone pops up past memories. My husband took me to Paris for my 60th birthday. I had always wanted to go to France. Love this picture of the evening skyline of Paris.

Musical Scam Last night I got a message on Instagram from someone claiming to work for a music group that I'm interested in, saying that they'd noticed I liked a lot of their posts, and that they wanted to know more about me. When I questioned this, they sent me a screen shot of a...

School fetes and cake stalls It's getting on for school fete season and of course my favourite was the cake stall. All those mums who put together a plate of Anzacs, a sponge, some fairy cakes, and of course, the school fete special – the toffee in a patty-pan. Some had nuts sprinkled on top...

Jezebel The jezebels are my favourite butterflies. I'm glad they're loving the lilacs as much as I do.

Lilac harvest I've read that the best way to prune your lilac bush is by picking the flowers. We had quite the harvest and Gorkel and Flossie came to admire the flowers. Gorkel picked some and I thought he was going to give them to Flossie as a gift, but he just ate them instead. Not...

Puffing Billy race One of our annual events is the Puffing Billy race. We live locally and walk into Belgrave for the race, it's a good warmup. My SO is the racer. I am much more sensible, I ride the train! SO was happy with his time this year and we stopped for a cuppa in the lovely...