Tassie Views

 I found an old black and white folio of Tassie photos published in 1910. It's called '81 Views of Tasmania'. Paul Stork gave it to me back in the day when we were doing many trips across Bass Strait. I think he was cleaning out prior to moving and I am not sure where he got it from. It is battered, tattered, torn and covered in sticky tape.  It is very awkward to open and prone to tearing, the pages being a metre or so across.  I got out my wand scanner to reproduce some pages before they disintegrate. There was some distortion but I have a few better ones here. Some are of favourite spots and one I have never been to.  There is a copy in the national library which I assume is in better condition.

Early Geelong

 We aren't venturing outside today as the wind is nasty, although it might die off a bit in the afternoon.  I was trawling through my map draws here and found some maps that I had purchased from the state library in 1980. Copies of maps that is. There are five of them and the Geelong area is covered as well. John Batman favoured this area when he first setup near current St Leonards, just down the way.  His first encampment and explorations are plotted on one map and were just to the back of us here along the ridgeline.  He writes that our house is on 'Fine rich rising ground'.  I must have known in 1980 that I would need a map of the area when I moved here.  It's a bit short on detail.  There are negatives of these as well. I paid 65c each for the bonded paper copies but no cost mentioned for the negs.

5th Jan 1880

6th June 1835

Kiddies Day

 We had a combined James' Birthday and Father's Day but it should just be called kiddies day as that is where all the attention is.  We had some good Estelle time to start with. She is getting better all the time at the playground.  We went back for a second session when Asher and Kaia arrived. The main focus was lunch, where Debbie had prepared sausage rolls and lasagne not to forget the birthday cake.  Grandma brought cakes and quiche and Bianca also made cup cakes so no one went home hungry. After the cleanup and packup we made it back to Clifton Springs and it was still daylight.

swing action

arms in the air

Generations

monkey swing

birthday blow

Willie Warm Weather

Sun out bike out for a short ride around Williamstown.  They have a hospital here so I wanted to know exactly where it was. We found it near the Williamstown Beach train station which was also on our list to find.  They do have an emergency department but not overnight. We also spied a number of sneaky trainline underpasses for bicycle progress.  There was one last item on the list and we stopped a couple of times looking for the chocolate shop. It is also a cake and coffee cafe so we will have to stay longer next time.

Sandy bay

Choco  Lot

All painted and I didn't raise a finger

Tongue out cheek

 Isn't there some saying about the wind changing when you make a face. Kaia does nor know that one.  Her facial action is non stop and her main thing is tongue action. Maybe she has worked out that she has one.  I paid close attention to her using a spoon for some pumpkin and that was a screwed up face like no other.  Asher seems quite happy lately to be doing some drawing and colouring. We have had a few sessions doing this. She must be getting ready for school as using textas, pencils and scissors is all the go.

tongue twister

Bambi rides again

Quadruple Screens

We spent time and money getting four Samsung screens two weeks back for Williamstown.  In the meantime, I had to get cables via the internet, with two different plugs at each end ( DisplayPort & HDMI) and also two different cables for each monitor, due to the vagaries of Samsung standards connecting to Dell standards on their docking station.  Two solid hours of removing temporary monitors, unpacking new ones, putting them together with the base and positioning powerboards for six extra power leads and I was ready to turn everything on.  Nothing happened.  The error said, 'cannot detect monitors'. I could see a blue LED telling me there was power connected.  That was my mistake, the blue LED tells me the power is connected but the monitor is NOT switched on.  After a while I found the secret, black, could hardly be seen, power button and everything worked.

2 x 2 workspace

Seven Neat Piles

The division of photos into piles has been completed or I thought it had, but it seems some fine tuning needs to be done whatever that is.  In any case it is getting close and maybe we will finally have the lounge area cleaned up a bit.  Also on the subject of deceased estates, the Gowanbrae people do not seem to be to active in their sale of the unit.  We checked the Village's own web page and the unit is not listed there for sale.  We have been told it is on numerous websites but cannot find it. Also there has not been too much response to emails so far.  They have managed to string out the process for the six months of extra payments but now that that has ended, they still seem to be slack.

Purple sky

Piles

Orange Sky