Tuesday

Yum - or would that be - mmm … breakfast. The eggs were excellent especially as I'd remembered to cut the toast into "soldiers" so it was easier to dip into the yolk. (Benz on York, Sydney)

Saturday

I was lucky enough to receive a Xmas gift from a friend's chickens this year. Thanks girls (and E&M).

Friday

Not often you see a penny-farthing bicycle since they were more in vogue a century ago - but you never know what you'll see in Marrickville.

Saturday

Buying for Christmas for that special someone who has most everything - including horses? The Greystone is hard to go by - a vacuum pooper scooper. It would probably also work if there were large dogs in the picture.

Friday

I stayed at the Downs Motel in Toowoomba recently, and this is the offering in the tea/coffee making drawer (there was an electric kettle as well, but it didn't fit in the drawer). The biscuits came home with me - but I wanted to take a photo to prove that they were special - Gumnut Biscuits.

Saturday

This is Lizzie and Elaine at our regular monthly breakfast - except I've missed the last two because I've been either waiting at home for the removalist to bring my goodies from the office (for the start of the new telecommuting era) or away in South Africa. It was good to catch up - and to show them photos on my blog (using the Treo 750). Upstairs, Muse, Summer Hill.

This is the fountain in the second coffee shop we visited today, this time to sit in the courtyard, read the newspapers and soak up some sunshine. Bo Bo at Dulwich Hill.

Friday

Africa - well part of it anyway. This is out the window of the plane on the way from Cape Town to Johannesburg (which gets to be Photo of the Day today because I've just started going through the photographs).

Thursday

Our friend Lizzie is back from her travels overseas today and we met her this afternoon at a new Belgian coffee shop in Italian territory - Norton Street, Leichhardt. It's the Le Pain Quotidin (Daily Bread) - and it was very nice (and yes, my coffee came exactly as ordered - flat white, weak and very hot ... but I couldn't find the handle on my mug at all!)

Thursday

Sunset over the Atlantic last week in South Africa.

Wednesday

Little by little, make that "box by box", I am getting my home office sorted. Homer is helping. Today, I was putting away the last of the "stuff" from this box, and when I turned back around, there he was. I couldn't help but be impressed - because the box was not fully on the desk and he could have toppled it, and him, off.

Tuesday

The ibis around Marrickville were out in force today and I was stunned to see a pair of them "tight-rope walking" across electricity lines spanning Marrickville Road. On balance, they did not look as though they were having a good time.

Monday

If I was at all concerned about liking telecommuting, this morning has helped sway me to the positive. Just before 9am the doorbell rang and it was a courier with a package for me ... Season 10 (final) for StarGate SG-1 - which was very exciting because I hadn't purchased one and can only figure that it was from a competition I had previously entered (or some kind person recognising my name on a database and sending me same). Either way - thanks!

Sunday

In the throes of cleaning up/out "my shed" today, I found a couple of things that had slipped from my mind ... my calligraphy practice pad; and the box from my Star Trek jigsaw puzzle - itself long gone now - but memorable for the fact that I had placed all but the last two pieces when my partner decided to help out - and taking the piece that belonged in the stars, she proceeded to pound it in to place - until I gently stopped her, and turned it the right way around so it would slip gently into position.

Saturday

I'd never really taken time out to look at our national animal emblems adorning the Supreme Court Building in Sydney - because if I had, the eyes of the emu would have been cause for some alarm (even concern).

Friday

The Arts of Islam exhibition has just finished at the NSW Art Gallery.

Thursday

Thoughts of Queensland. On my recent trip I discovered my favourite fruit "barn" had closed, so I went to the one across the highway ... where they weren't sure if they were selling JAB or JAP pumpkins. (I am reliably informed that JAP means ... Just A Pumpkin.)

Wednesday

Welcome to the St Brigid's Church, Marrickville, affectionately know to locas as "The Mozzie Zapper" - this is actually one of the palm trees in the grounds which is home to a flock - perhaps more than one - of ibis (? plural).

Tuesday (after a long absence)

It's not often you find Kermit the Frog in your suburb ... but there he was, as large as life (which is odd really, because if he were a real frog, he would probably be a bit smaller).

I think this little fellow (and there were a whole heap of these banners lining both sides of the road in George Street, Sydney) is part of Art Express - but it's hard to know for sure.

This is my last day in the office, boxes packed, surfaces clear - and still the crane stands sentinel outside the window.

I visited Queensland recently and had an onion for lunch. I had some other things as well, but this was the onion on an onion plate.

Loose change will buy you a copy of The Daily Telegraph ... and some other things besides. I used my coin purse for most purchases for the best part of a week - until I finally had little more than 5c pieces left.

Friday

A family of ducks has taken up residence in our bathroom. Not quite sure when they arrived ... I noticed them this morning for the first time. They're cute, quiet, and they haven't yet rumbled with the cats.

Sunday

Conservation is always a good thing ... and we did our best to keep the (herb) tree intact once it was placed atop the tor of poached egg.

Saturday

It's not often that doing one particular job around the house yields pleasant surprises ... but it did. Click on the small picture to see the bigger picture!