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Post #78 Saturday 17th March 2018 – Back from Canberra

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Saturday 17 March 2018

I had the fastest drive home from Canberra than I’ve had in ages.   This notwithstanding there was a lot of road work – for which we all slowed down.  But as I regularly  let myself travel just above the speed limit, alas I am thinking this may be the reason for my fast trip even with roadwork and I am none too proud of it really.

It was a good stay and I collected visuals of another interesting piece of sculpture on an early evening walk near the hotel.  On reflection I could have done a better photo:

Here’s a better shot from the local Sculpture Walk Guide which I found on the net, together with a spiel about the scuplture’s name and significance, and its’ creator, all of which is quite appealing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being a bit frisky one Canberra morning I took an unsual selfie – the underboob and pyjamas shot, here to amuse 🙂 in the usual way:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can also say in recent news, I learnt how to make Steak Diane, thanks to an entrprising visitor at home, and that was all very good indeed.

 

Your glamorous aunt, MG xx
reporting on some of this week’s adventures.

Post #73 Sunday 11 February 2018 – A small road trip

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Letters from America
These letters are my glamorous aunt’s posts on her adventures and her life and times as a
♦ mature Sydney escort ♦

Sunday 11 February 2018

I did a small road trip down to Dapto last weekend.  I stopped at the spectacular Sea Cliff Bridge at Coalcliff – which is on the rail line down to Wollongong.  Here is my tourist’s picture postcard shot:

Isn’t it beautiful?

And here is a clever piece of graffiti coming straight out of the cliff face:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see there is a black horizontal seam of coal in the cliff face.  The painted train is running along the coal seam railway tracks.

There were loose lumps of coal lying all around the base of the bridge, right down at the water’s edge, all from this seam.   I have never seen anything like that.

I was in Dapto on business (and no, it was not the Dapto dogs 🙂 lol).  My business was to visit the owners of a block next door to my little acre on the edge of the Southern Highlands, who happen to live in Dapto.  The long and the short of my discussions with them is that I now have access to an additional half acre and it will be called the Orchard Block – self explanatory name really.  Some apple trees and other fruit trees will be planted on this block, under a netted structure to protect against the birds and the possums – not really a greenhouse but like a greenhouse.  Watch this space… 🙂  Next week an excavator – man and machine – is coming to make good the bumpy little road on the existing acre, and I will ask the operator to also look at doing a small job levelling part of the Orchard Block for the “greenhouse”.  It’s a time of great anticipation at MG HQ!

And although there has been a bit happening, I have managed to maintain a calm, so I hope that all of you are in fine form too.

Yours ever MG xx

PS And here is a photo of some of the calm maintained during the week – and me ready for dinner at my place:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Post #68 Sunday 7 January 2018 – Rejuvenation grout and the New Year

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♦ mature Sydney escort ♦

Sunday 7 January 2018

It’s the New Year and I don’t do resolutions so much as I find myself somehow embarking on various new projects, generally a bit domestic.  This New Year it seems to be Rejuvenation Grout.

Well I have bought the product and I am hoping it will transform the tired tiles of the bathroom into something a bit more, hmmm luminous may be :-), or just a bit whiter would be ok.

It’s been a nice start to the year otherwise.  I had a lovely unexpected visitor on Saturday afternoon.  I don’t often get magpies up on the 12th floor so it was a treat to hear that melodic gargling sort of song so close by.

I drove back from the country on Saturday and listened to the radio on the way – as a lot of you know, I love the radio.  On this trip the ABC was rebroadcasting a feed from the US National Public Radio (NPR) and I had a couple of treats.  One was a show on bluegrass which was an excuse for me to rummage around for favourite modern blues music when I got home.  Here is a link to a performer composer I really like and who is a great blues hero for souls who live rough.  It’s Chris Whitley with his melancholy guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI8ISl7xpg4

The other interesting program I caught was the end of was an interview with the columnist Michael Wolff who has just published Fire and Fury – a book on Donal Trump’s more or less accidental ascendancy and the pathology of his White House reign so far.  Perhaps I’ll make it to Abbey’s later in the week to see if I can pick up a copy, it is from all reports, an alarming and worthwhile read.

So, the year seems to have started quietly but hopefully, in your glamorous aunt’s happy domain

Wishing all the best to all of us for the coming year

MG xx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Post #35 Friday 9 June 2017 – Still haven’t found what I’m looking for

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  Letters from America
These letters are my glamorous aunt’s posts on her adventures and her life and times as a
♦ mature Sydney escort ♦

Friday 9 June 2017

Your glamorous aunt has been doing a lot of driving up and down the coast.  My mother lives on the south coast and she is not well, so I have been visiting often.    On one of these drives  I was listening to a classic popular music FM station (someone else has been driving the car so this station was on the dial already).

I heard that song which was a huge hit for U2 way back in the 80s – I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.  Most of you will have heard it and you will know that it’s very slow, maybe a bit overdone on the slow tempo, so you know, you can’t miss the significance 🙂

I would love to recommend to you an alternative interpretation by the Sensitive New Age Cowpersons, an Australian bluegrass comic outfit, recorded a long time after the hugely successful U2 version.  This is a great rendition, at a fast clip, with banjos at twenty paces.   So if we’re going to do gospel, let’s make it a joyful song.

Here’s a youtube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4-jM6i1RnQ

 

I have to acknowledge Tim Winton the writer for this music.  I first heard it on the CDs that accompanied his book Dirt Music.
Thank you Tim Winton

bisoux bisoux
from your glamorous aunt,
taking off the driving goggles
heading for the bath
it’s been a long day’s driving.

xx MG