The Park Test

You Are as Free as the Wind You are gracious and good-natured. You are big-hearted and genial with everyone. You have a natural serenity that makes others feel calm. You are a safe haven for others.You are unselfconscious and totally natural in your behavior. You are free-spirited. You are totally comfortable with where you are [...]

A Bit of Perth

“The Witch’s Hat”, 148 Palmerston Street, Perth. Built circa 1898. A large two-storey residence with a bow verandah and a turret with Gothic influences. Built for William Dartnell, an engineer and one of the designers of the Horseshoe and Barrack Street bridges. (Oh yes, I must show those as well very soon).   These days [...]

Not The Strolling Ones

A friend returned from one of those events we get stuck with as we age. “So, how did the class reunion go?” I asked. “Kinda fun. Some sad moments, though. Remember Lucy? I found out she died,” he answered. “How awful! What happened?” “She got a job at a chemical plant. Keith Simons was working [...]

Sid and Sod

 

A Bit of Perth

I have no idea of the age of this residential building. It has probably graced Palmerston St in Perth since the 1890′s or 1900′s. All I know is that I am in awe of its beauty. If you have missed earlier “Bits of Perth” and would like to catch up, there is an index in [...]

It Tickled Granny’s Fancy

 

Puzzle; What is it? The Answer

I took the photo through the window of an antique shop in Nannup. And the Nurse was the first made an absolutely brilliant deduction.

A Bit of Perth

Lee Hop’s Cottage, 176 Fitzgerald Street, Perth. Built on the corner of Robertson Park [Lake Henderson] in 1903 by Dr Daniel Kenny who had purchased the property in the 1890s. Lee Hop occupied the cottage from 1903 to 1914. Altogether around six Chinese men worked the 18 acres of market garden. Lake Henderson was filled [...]

A Puzzle; What Is It?

I’ll post the answer tomorrow.

More Tulips

More of the Nannup Tulips from yesterday.

God and War

Reverently burgled from I Am your God

A Bit of Perth

Here is the building I was looking for yesterday. The Maltings, cnr Stuart and Palmerston streets (the building fronts both streets in an “L” shape with the Electric Station right on the corner) Built as a brewery in 1899 for David William Harwood who established the Perth Pneumatic Maltings Company. In 1907 it was changed [...]

Nannup Tulips

The first of what will be a collection. Nannup was a timber town.

Photo Hunt; Drink

Bottoms Up!

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