Today is DonateLife Thank You Day (20th November 2016). This is a day to say thank you to all the donors and their loved ones for giving the gift of life…and it is a day that is very important to us. Because organ donation saved my husband’s life…it is as simple as that… If a […]
I have had a rough few weeks…nothing life threatening and I am perfectly safe…I have just been feeling downright awful. Which is why I have been a bit quiet round here…hard to think of things to write when feeling unwell. My main problem is nausea…constant, unexplained nausea…one specialist called it Functional Nausea. It all started […]
A few months ago, we went along to a camera market which turned out to be packed with vintage cameras…and people! We were unable to get close to some of the popular tables as there were too many people…who said film photography was dead! But because I had a little money to spend (thanks footy […]
When we head into the city, we usually park at Federation Square….it is central to where we go, and it is an easy jump to get on the freeway. Ages ago, we noticed a garden on the top level, but had never taken the time to check it out…until last weekend. We have resurrected our […]
I love photography, and I love this amazing city that we live in, so when I was given the opportunity to do a review of a book which combines my two loves, I said yes immediately! A Snapshot of Melbourne is a collection of black and white photographs taken over a 26 year period by […]
You may have known that there was a very big sporting event last weekend here in Melbourne…the big dance…the AFL Grand Final. Sadly our beloved Geelong Cats fell at the last hurdle, so it was the Western Bulldogs against the Sydney Swans. Two cities against each either….except it wasn’t. It seemed that if you weren’t […]
When our gorgeous old boy, Bill, started to struggle to walk any distance, we went hunting for a solution as he was too heavy to carry comfortably for both him and us. And we discovered that there is such a thing as a dog buggy/stroller. There are quite a few different ones out there…from eBay […]
When we visited the Analogue Academy in Geelong to get some film developed, they had a little gang of Olympus XA cameras on display. I had been looking for a smaller vintage 35mm film camera for times when I didn’t want to take a big camera with me, and this looked to be the perfect […]