A Bit of Perth

I headed out today to find some more Bits of Perth. Driving east from my home alongside the Perth/Midland railway line, I have often seen this, on the other side of the rail line. Today I decided to get that photo. And guess what I discovered! Oh bother. It is only open on Sunday afternoons. [...]

Tuesday Tunes

Hair Suit

Just before we enter the punnosphere, here is something else to experience. Open Google Earth Type the coordinates 37.645409°, -115.751123° into the search bar. Become worried. Very worried! Now, with apologies to Daddy P for the title – – - Little Amy came home from school one Wednesday afternoon with a note from her teacher: [...]

Sid and Sod

A Bit of Perth

The Rotunda Hospital, established by midwife Elizabeth Baillie in 1912, provided women with an alternative to home birth. The Rotunda Hospital was established four years before King Edward Memorial Hospital, Western Australia’s first public hospital for women. It fronts onto Albany Highway in East Victoria Park. The side street is Baillie St and that is [...]

Final Rapture Comment

Vintage Adverts

We had some rain a few days ago. It has been so long since we had real rain here in Perth that many of us thought the Rapture was coming.

Book Review; Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Joanna Fluke has created Hannah Swensen who is in her early thirties and has flaming frizzy red hair. Let it just be said that I am a complete sucker for redheads! Hannah is the oldest of the three daughters of Delores Swensen and runs the Cookie Jar, a bakery in the small Minnesotan town of [...]

Rapturous Thoughts

God and Science

Reverently burgled from I Am your God

A Bit of Perth

I checked it out. There wasn’t a Kiwi in sight. I think they were out chasing the sheep!

Photo Hunt; Cluttered

Here is a very cluttered fruit bowl.

Vale Kathy Kirby

Singer Kathy Kirby, best known for her cover version of Secret Love in 1963, has died aged 72. Born Kathleen O’Rourke in Ilford, Essex, Kathy Kirby began her career working with bandleader Bert Ambrose who took her on the club circuit. The blonde pin-up was often compared to Marilyn Monroe and, after securing her first [...]

Raptured, Ruptured, Raptored; Whatever.

Rationed Recipes

Two more recipes from the immediate post-war period. Australian Women’s Weekly, 18th May, 1946