Along with Elephant's Child and River, here are my Sunday Selections. I am slowly catching up with the backlog, now at November last year.
This is a poor quality photo but I did my best without scaring the bird away. It is rare for a Pied Currawong to appear on my balcony, so I was a little excited.
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The display at Melbourne Town Hall changes frequently and always looks good, sometimes brilliant but I hate the Harvest Festival display; without colour and it looks stale and tired very quickly. I remember as a child displays of fruit and vegetables in church but my religious consultant, Phyllis, has never heard of it, so I don't know if it is Christian religious, and if so, Catholic or Protestant. No doubt one of you will fill me in. Who needs Google!
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Just a photo I snapped from the balcony, which I quite liked.
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The room is not always this bad but sometimes worse. As long they don't damage anything, I don't care how untidy it is.
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The contrast to my bedroom, the common wall being where my pillows are. I couldn't live in such a mess as in the photo above.
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We saw a jelly fish at Station Pier. I didn't realise you can hear speaking. Firstly is Kosov and the last little bit is Phyllis. While Phyllis missed the last word Kosov said, YouTube subtitling picked up the word. I don't know why the video has subtitles.
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Another eclectic delight. We often get pied currawongs - and I love their call. The balcony shot is excellent and I like the flower display. I am not and never was a church goer so I can't answer that question - but will watch the comments. That is a very pink jelly fish. How I wish I had sound and could hear the boys. Soon.
ReplyDeleteEC, they seem to have a couple of different calls. I am not entriely sure about their calls.
DeleteIt’s interesting how childhood memories like those displays of fruit and vegetables stay with us
ReplyDeleteRoentare, it is indeed.
DeleteI suppose a disgustingly messy bedroom is the private concern of the resident, as long as the door to the rest of the house is always shut. But it makes me wonder about what the parents were teaching the child about cleanliness when the child was 6.
ReplyDeleteHels, condensation was forming so I now I insist they keep the door open if not in the room. I don't look in as I walk past. They pay for the room, their business. The do tidy it frequently, but it quickly becomes untidy.
DeleteOh dear hels. As the mother of grown up and gone teenagers, I can tell you that these messy rooms happen despite the parent's teaching.
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DeleteI didn't ask my teenage sons do too much around the house, but their bedrooms had to be clean each morning before school and their dirty clothes had to be put in the laundry every Sunday morning BEFORE they went out.
I had rules. They were ignored. The kids were busy with school and jobs, and I could have spent a lot of time fighting with them about their rooms. In the end, it became a 'pick your battle'. They were good kids, good work ethic, popular. I decided to be grateful for that. The oldest is still untidy, but the youngest two, in their 30s now, are real neatniks.
DeleteI had the same dirty clothes rule and the bed had to be made with clean sheets every single week.
DeleteMy mother used to change all sheets weekly. My stepmother used to change the bottom sheet weekly and move the top sheet to the bottom. I've already mentioned my filthy sheet habit.
DeleteI love the old gate. I don't know about Harvest Festivals, maybe they predate religion, but if they were held in honour of whatever ancient Gods blessed the fields than that would be a religious festival, like the Aztecs or Incas appeasing their Gods with blood sacrifices so the next harvest would be bountiful, or something like that.
ReplyDeleteI remember my kids rooms being messy too in spite of my raising, round about the age of 14 or so you couldn't see the room for the mess.
River, I think you are on the right track about the celebration of the harvest. Naturally as a 14 year old my bedroom was immaculate. Actually, we didn't really have much to leave around to be messy.
Deletehe tribute to tram staff is touching, and that preserved crane is such a nostalgic nod to the past. The contrast between the messy room and your neat one gave me a chuckle.
ReplyDeleteAnd the jellyfish sighting? Unexpected and fascinating! Great to see Phyllis involved too—love the personal touch throughout.
Asep, the jelly fish was pretty cool.
DeleteNo subtitling on my end. Interesting to hear their voices.
ReplyDeleteYes, that must have been within my own settings, Kirk. Kosov's last word was celebrity.
DeleteCan finally voices to their names. That kind of a mess I couldn't live that way, but lots of people can and do.
ReplyDeleteStrayer, but not yet mine. I've tried but I've not been happy with the result.
DeleteThe coat of arms is for the City of Melbourne: "a fleece hanging from a red ring; a black bull standing on a hillock; a spouting whale swimming in the sea; and a three-masted ship in full-sail."
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That's what I thought, as it was explained to me during a tour of the Town Hall, but why would that be on the Royal Mint, I should think a federal building.
DeleteAnother lovely, varied selection and the video was an extra delight. So nice to hear their voices.
ReplyDeleteMess and teenagers go together, no matter how strict the house rules are.
JB, at times it just easier to wear things than make a big deal about a non life and death matter.
DeleteWell I have to answer about the tradition of the Harvest Festival for most surely it came from Britain. And according to Wikipedia, one of my favourite characters. The Reverend Robert Hawker. A Cornish pastor who excommunicated his cat for mousing on Sunday. You just can't make it up, or him up.
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Amazing, Thelma. And Hawker looks quite 'prosperous'.
DeleteGood selection Andrew. The video is interesting to see the jellyfish, it looks a decent size one.
ReplyDeleteLove the bird and you did well to get a photo of it.
The room is a bit of a mess, but it's not too bad.
Margaret, I've never seen a jelly fish like that before.
DeleteMy bedroom has always been untidy, for as long as I can remember. I think it's a teenage boy thing many people never grow out of.
ReplyDeleteThere used to be ways of dealing with such bad teenage boys.
DeleteI made my bed, once a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteAnd not a bit of shame at telling us.
DeleteThe balcony view is nice. They usually are, generally.
ReplyDeleteQuickly running through my mind Pradeep, I can only think of one that hasn't a nice view.
DeleteThe bedroom is messy, but not terribly so. It seems pretty typical for young guys. (Mine looks more like yours!)
ReplyDeleteI'm relieved to read that, Steve.
DeleteI like your exotic balcony bird, the fact that like me you have a view of traffic and life happening! Yes, that car was a beautiful champagne color. Thanks Andrew. Aloha
ReplyDeleteCloudia, and wouldn't we miss the view if we didn't have it.
ReplyDeleteAt 54 I'm as messy as I was at 15. I try to confine my mess to my room and I'm not proud of it but for now, that's me
ReplyDeleteKylie, while I don't understand, people do what they do in their lives. It is up to them in their own space.
DeleteSuch a bird to be on the balcony, Andrew. We get pigeons here.
ReplyDeleteThe messy room would drive me crazy.
My water sprayer would come out for pigeons, Pat. Generally they don't seem so keen on being so high.
DeleteTheir room is nowhere near as messy as my teenage daughter's was.
ReplyDeletePixie, it's all relative I guess.
DeleteMy husband's two brothers do all the (very intense) household cleaning and I'm sure both despise the state of our home. Their long distance visits are brief, for sure. lol My intentions to use the vacuum cleaner, mop, etc. continue being sidelined with excuses. ~shakes head~ But my gardening efforts are going well, at least. Best wishes!
ReplyDeleteDarla, at least your last thoughts won't be, 'I wish I mopped more often'. I think you have the right priorities.
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