Wednesday, November 4, 2015

And so, today, in the Painting and Drawing Class, Hazelhurst- the subject was shells and such.

Saturday, October 31, 2015

He and I sleep together.........

"Just havin' a little fun, folks"

(quote from 'The Ratpack'!)

Ozcloggie 2016

Just sharing some memories, folks!

E.g., when St Nicholas comes to Sydney!!

It's only natural!!!

I cannot help thinking of Basil Fawlty trying to impress the fraudster, "Ah! Naturellement!" :)

http://naturellement.tumblr.com/post/102458689228

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Bring me sunshine. Make me smile. Just be happy, all the while. Legalise naturism, Queensland. Just like in Europe. Encourage tourism.

PLEASE SIGN, BELOW - and pass it on!!! May take a moment to appear on your screen..... Let's get the tourists to come to Queensland when it's winter in the northern hemisphere!!

****************** Great for tourism. France has proved that!

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Ozcloggie: Love creativity........

Creativity! Love it!! Ozcloggie.

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The last time I saw Paris.........

Thursday, July 30, 2015

"Fairlight Gardens" Bed and Breakfast ~ and / or apartment - up the hill from Manly.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Kom van dat dak af! Niets is hier blijvend! Sing along now!!

BUT WAIT !! THERE's MORE !!

Monday, July 27, 2015

Grab Judith Lucy - Ask No Questions Of The Moth tickets - WHAT?

Grab Judith Lucy - Ask No Questions Of The Moth tickets

Chatswood is not part of Sydney??? :)

"After three years off the stage she’s back in Sydney, Newcastle, Chatswood and Perth, limited seasons only so don’t miss out.

Read more at http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=JUDITHL15#e4SG5rDye7g58ISl.99 "

O.K. I realise why it needs to be listed separately!!

Thursday, July 30, 2015

"Fairlight Gardens" Bed and Breakfast ~ and / or apartment - up the hill from Manly.

Adding colour, sound and interest to life. Let's all keep up the good work!!

Nicky Kurta

Deborah Wild

Jo Mulholland

And if you're "Travelling North",

stay HERE, in Crescent Head:

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Crescent Head - STILL a wonderful -get-away!

Meanwhile,

if you are passing by Crescent Head, New South Wales, DON'T !!!

DO stay in

Crescent Head Holiday Apartments

and enjoy the sights, surf, social life

of Crescent Head.

Crescent Head Holiday Apartments

1 Main St Crescent Head NSW 2440

(02) 6566 0258

crescentheadholiday.com.au

Family Accommodation

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Apartment and / or B.& B., "up the hill" from Manly, north of Sydney Harbour, NSW, Australia.

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CLICK HERE.

MORE INFORMATION.

also

HERE.

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

In art class, today, @ Hazelhurst Wed. 22 July, 2015

To be worked on some more - next week!!!

Watercolour on wood.

BUT WAIT !! THERE's MORE !!

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Fiddler on the roof Soundtrack: 08 - Sunrise, sunset

Saturday, July 18, 2015

The early encounters with the shores of Australia - although not THE earliest!! Home Skip to content HOME ABOUT NEWSLETTERS RESOURCES INFORMATION CONTACT US Welcome to Australia on the Map

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FROM........

Welcome to Australia on the Map

“Australia on the Map” (AOTM) is the history and heritage division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS).

The Australia on the Map Division is the successor organisation to

“Australia on the Map: 1606-2006”,

which was established in 2002 as an independent organisation to organise, promote and coordinate a nationwide event program in 2006 as part of the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of European contact with this continent in 1606.

As an educational resource this website, which is compiled and maintained by volunteers, is constantly being upgraded and incorporating new features. It has some documents and databases relevant to the unveiling of Australia and New Zealand to the world , the charting of its coasts and their appearance on maps from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It also provides access to some of the research and writings of AOTM’s members and news on relevant events.

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The Australia on the Map Division is a purely voluntary organisation which does not employ any staff.

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Australia and how the Dutch (my ancestors) FOUND it!!! :)

CHECK THIS OUT!!!!

http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au/

QUOTE:

WHY ORGANISING AN EVENT COMMEMORATING DIRK HARTOG’S 1616 VISIT – IN 2016?

In 2015 we will commemorate the end of the Second World War. We will be invited to attend the ceremonies or watch on TV as the lines of be-medalled people march by. The authorities will organise them, and millions of dollars have been allocated to be spent on the commemoration in its various forms. It will happen. We need not plan anything. Some of us are more involved than others because of family connections to the fallen. After similar attention having been paid in 2014 to the end of World War I, we again will commemorate war and history, this time with many of us old enough to remember. In addition, at least five countries in Europe will commemorate the Battle of Waterloo, longer ago but also considered an important historical event.

In 2016 there may not be huge international events like this planned and government may take a break from considerable commemorative investment, or commemorate the various bloody battles of WWI individually until 2018 also.

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Friday, July 10, 2015

Bed & Breakfast or apartment, up the hill from Manly- Fairlight Gardens. - Relax. Let Bob Reed advise and help you enjoy your stay, north of Sydney Harbour!!

Bed & Breakfast or apartment, up the hill from Manly- Fairlight Gardens. -

Relax.

Let Bob Reed advise and help you enjoy your stay, north of Sydney Harbour!!

BACK THERE, "up the hill from Manly",

is B.&B. / holiday apartment,

'FAIRLIGHT GARDENS'.

See some comments in the guestbook, below:

Monday, July 6, 2015

The Dutch ('authorities') seem to be unaware of how much contact there has been with Australia from before James Cook 'dropped in' - ONWARDS- Check this out:

He writes:

Why federalism should be abandoned and replaced.

"The Reform of Federation Paper “A Federation for Our Future”, recently published by the Abbot Government to generate a Green Paper, takes me back to a 2008 Conference on federal-state relations in Tenterfield. Abbott, an after-dinner speaker, then strongly advocated the dismantling of the states although the Rudd Government had, most disappointingly, just embraced another reincarnation of “cooperative federalism” passing up the very obvious chance to replace federation. Sadly, Abbott has changed his tune entirely and now talks about strengthening the states to operate in their “sovereign spheres to the extent possible”.

https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/klaas-woldring,54

I know Klaas via the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre.

PLEASE READ:

Dr Klaas Woldring Prof.-Retired, wrote:

"We find that younger Dutch Australians, and Dutch expatriates, are often not very aware of the important work involved in preserving the Dutch Heritage. The history of post-WWII immigrants is a large chunk of our work but there is much more to Dutch Heritage than that. The magnificent recent Mapping Australia exhibition in the National Library, Canberra made that perfectly clear. About half of the old maps displayed there were of Dutch 17th century origin, the products of VOC cartographers and seafarers who circumnavigated the Australian continent and mapped most of it.
The history of the WWII itself is also reflected in the role of the Dutch as the “Fourth Ally” and in important tales of those who came as refugees in 1942 from the Dutch East Indies.
And it is the story of several important individual contributions prior to WWII such as the Broken Hill Pty Ltd General Manager and pioneer Guillaume Delprat. Another example is the music shop operator Paling who started his business on the Victorian Gold Fields in the mid-1850s.
The Dutch contribution to the history of this continent is both unique and significant. This is often not realised widely in the Netherlands.
However, unless we display it ourselves here it may well be lost OR just become a very small part only of history found back in the occasional multi-cultural museum - among many other nationalities in this vast multicultural country. This is definitely NOT our objective."
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