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I wonder why some Friday evenings I just want to collapse in a heap, and others seem to find me full of busy?
I don't think it relates to how hard work's been; this week has been busy, busy - but I got home this evening and have done all sorts of useful things, and am now drinking coffee and posting pictures for your entertainment. I have two bits of gentle beta-ing to do for pleasure in a few minutes - and I'm then going to make cookies/biscuits and, maybe, flapjack (the baked oat/syrup stuff not pancakes).
I might just collapse in a heap tomorrow instead!
Under the cut are just a few more pictures from Sydney - including some rather cuddly wee guys - well I think they are, anyway.
These first pictures were taken in the Botanical Gardens - which looks to be a really nice green place in the middle of the city -

As you can see it's within sight of the landmark bridge and Opera house.
D-d really likes the juxtaposition of trees and skyscrapers - this is a good example -

And then she looked up, and wondered what sort of tree this was - it seemed to have some rather weird fruit hanging in it -

She went a little closer, and used her zoom lens, and lo! A whole lot of little guys in leather capes!

Aren't they cute? She walked around to get them with different light -

I just think they are so cute and cuddly! I have bat envy.
This next picture is in the same batch - but I don't think it can be the Botanical Gardens as the Opera House is on the other of the bridge compared with the earlier one - but it is a lovely picture.

Now - this was her visit to the Fish Market - less cuddly, I think!


she just thought everything was so colourful, and so different to the fish shop at home.
And you can't see that lot without eating any of it - and she is her mother's daughter, so she got the camera out before the fork!

Would you believe at the moment there is an Aussie chef on TV cooking octopus?
And finally, her farewell to Sydney - a couple of night time pictures. I love this one -

And this one, with the pink fountain and the flamingoes -

The daughter in question is out with some other baby lawyers on a pub-crawl this evening! Tomorrow her and I are going to the Commonwealth Youth Games Swimming Gala - right here on the Island - it's great fun simply driving around at the moment spotting competitors. I've seen cyclists from Canada, Belize, Pakistan and Jamaica, and team members in the kits of Trinidad & Tobago, Australia, Botswana - and others I can't remember. It is wonderful to think we have such a big event right here - we are the smallest host nation ever.
I don't think it relates to how hard work's been; this week has been busy, busy - but I got home this evening and have done all sorts of useful things, and am now drinking coffee and posting pictures for your entertainment. I have two bits of gentle beta-ing to do for pleasure in a few minutes - and I'm then going to make cookies/biscuits and, maybe, flapjack (the baked oat/syrup stuff not pancakes).
I might just collapse in a heap tomorrow instead!
Under the cut are just a few more pictures from Sydney - including some rather cuddly wee guys - well I think they are, anyway.
These first pictures were taken in the Botanical Gardens - which looks to be a really nice green place in the middle of the city -

As you can see it's within sight of the landmark bridge and Opera house.
D-d really likes the juxtaposition of trees and skyscrapers - this is a good example -

And then she looked up, and wondered what sort of tree this was - it seemed to have some rather weird fruit hanging in it -

She went a little closer, and used her zoom lens, and lo! A whole lot of little guys in leather capes!

Aren't they cute? She walked around to get them with different light -

I just think they are so cute and cuddly! I have bat envy.
This next picture is in the same batch - but I don't think it can be the Botanical Gardens as the Opera House is on the other of the bridge compared with the earlier one - but it is a lovely picture.

Now - this was her visit to the Fish Market - less cuddly, I think!


she just thought everything was so colourful, and so different to the fish shop at home.
And you can't see that lot without eating any of it - and she is her mother's daughter, so she got the camera out before the fork!

Would you believe at the moment there is an Aussie chef on TV cooking octopus?
And finally, her farewell to Sydney - a couple of night time pictures. I love this one -

And this one, with the pink fountain and the flamingoes -

The daughter in question is out with some other baby lawyers on a pub-crawl this evening! Tomorrow her and I are going to the Commonwealth Youth Games Swimming Gala - right here on the Island - it's great fun simply driving around at the moment spotting competitors. I've seen cyclists from Canada, Belize, Pakistan and Jamaica, and team members in the kits of Trinidad & Tobago, Australia, Botswana - and others I can't remember. It is wonderful to think we have such a big event right here - we are the smallest host nation ever.
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Date: 09/09/2011 07:21 pm (UTC)Maybe they're fruit bats. *g*
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Date: 09/09/2011 07:44 pm (UTC)Love the fact that the world has come to your little Isle for the Games. I'm sure everyone will enjoy the venue. Have fun wandering around spotting kits and athletes :-)
- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 09/09/2011 07:52 pm (UTC)It is amazing that we are able to host a world-wide youth games - I'm guessing most of the teams had no idea where they were coming to. The Tongans got lost on the way, for a short while, the Pakistanis had a bomb scare on their plane, and the competitors from the Falklands and St Helena had to set of a couple of weeks ago to get here on time!
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Date: 09/09/2011 08:19 pm (UTC)Hopefully, you won't collapse in a heap tomorrow either.
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Date: 09/09/2011 08:58 pm (UTC)I like that picture with the bridge and the Opera House, too. She has a good eye for a picture.
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Date: 10/09/2011 07:50 pm (UTC)Aha! But the thing is they tend to zoom in while you're asleep. Then, when you pick up the banana to eat you find out only there's nothing left under the skin. LOL
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Date: 09/09/2011 08:20 pm (UTC)I love the framing in the first Botanical Garden photo. As an interesting aside, the Botanical Gardens (at least the one in Brisbane, so I assume it would have been the same in Sydney) started out as the convict tended farm to feed the colony, hence being in the middle of the city.
The fountain is beautiful... I am trying to place it because I think I've seen it (alas, during the daytime), but it's been years since I last went to Sydney... I'm thinking it may be in Darling Harbour, but I'm not sure.
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Date: 09/09/2011 09:01 pm (UTC)She has a good eye when it comes to taking pictures. How interesting about the beginnings of the Gardens - I must tell her tomorrow when she recovers from her, inevitable, hang over!
It could well be Darling Harbour - the other picture taken at more or less the same time seems to have boat moorings or something similar in it.
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Date: 09/09/2011 10:14 pm (UTC)Tomorrow her and I are going to the Commonwealth Youth Games Swimming Gala - right here on the Island - it's great fun simply driving around at the moment spotting competitors. I've seen cyclists from Canada, Belize, Pakistan and Jamaica, and team members in the kits of Trinidad & Tobago, Australia, Botswana - and others I can't remember. It is wonderful to think we have such a big event right here
Very cool, enjoy.
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Date: 09/09/2011 10:50 pm (UTC)I'm looking forward to going to the swimming - I'll report back later.
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Date: 09/09/2011 10:24 pm (UTC)Looks like a perfect holiday all together. :)
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Date: 10/09/2011 09:59 am (UTC)She's quite happy about the views etc. being shared - and I would always ask her about any pictures that showed friends.
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Date: 10/09/2011 12:08 am (UTC)When you see the bats' wings, you can sort of see where the idea of the undead comes from!
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Date: 10/09/2011 10:01 am (UTC)Absolutely. I think the bats all look like either Spike from Buffy, or The Count from Sesame Street!
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Date: 10/09/2011 10:08 am (UTC)Although encouraging it in the right direction might be a rather long-winded process!
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Date: 10/09/2011 10:11 am (UTC)I an quite envious of you having your own personal bat lodger.
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Date: 10/09/2011 10:12 am (UTC)I love the bats too - they really do looks cute and cuddly even if they probably aren't!
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Date: 10/09/2011 07:57 am (UTC)The one of the bridge and the Opera House looks like it's taken from Woolloomooloo. The composition is great, with the grasses in the foreground.
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Date: 10/09/2011 10:15 am (UTC)She does have a good eye for composition, some of her pictures look very professional, and I love those ones, too.
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Date: 10/09/2011 01:31 pm (UTC)I live further south in Melbourne.
Our Botannnical Gardens used to have loads of bats, flying foxes are considered a pest as they spread lots of diseases.
The government has spent a fortune trying to move them out of Sydney as they are damaging rare trees. They used tapes of loud noises to move them out of Melbourne gardens.
Our cat brought one in the house once, creepy little thing.
We got it out but ick!
I'm glad your daughter had a great holiday.
=^-^=
PJ
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Date: 10/09/2011 10:28 pm (UTC)My daughter had a great time - she spent the summer travelling - and had already been to visit a school friend in Argentina before she went to visit her friend in Sydney - she then travelled up the coast to Cairns, went down to visit her grandparents in Perth, and finished by spending two weeks in Thailand...
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Date: 10/09/2011 06:21 pm (UTC)What a lovely girl/young woman/baby lawyer you have raised!
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