I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week. Thanks, Sami.
This very, very long dachshund was painted by Cale Hummerston for the "No more blank walls festival" in the northern Perth suburb of Mount Lawley in April 2022.
Painted on the ceiling of the entrance to a car parking garage in the little lane at the back of theAstor Theatre, just across "the hands" mural and near the "Lois and Reija" mural.
Paper serviette at a coffee shop where I met up with work colleagues last week.
Sign at Coffee shop in Mount Lawley, seen when I went to photograph the murals I've been posting.
Old Tram that takes tourists to the most iconic spots in Fremantle.
Rooibos Tea anyone? We like Rooibos tea, a South African herbal tea, but somehow I bought one with vanilla flavour and we weren't fans of it. So I gave it away on the Buy Nothing group and it was quickly snapped up :)
I've just celebrated my 11th year in the blogging world on the 18th June.
It's not always easy to blog regularly when working (part-time), but sometimes my job can be quite stressful... home life, upcycling furniture, researching my family tree, and many other pastimes I still keep up with.
I have found it very interesting to connect to so many people around the world, get to know how others live, virtually visit many places in the world I have not and may not ever get to visit...
I have personally met a few people of my blogging community here and overseas and hope to meet many people in the future.
I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week. Thanks, Sami.
These three small murals were seen around the northern Perth suburb of Mount Lawley, painted by Ian Mutch for the "No more blank walls festival" in April 2022. He painted quite a few in the area and there's even a "Monster tour" around Mount Lawley, so next time I visit a friend who lives there we might take a walk around to discover some more 😉.
I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week. Thanks, Sami.
Painted by Hope & Kanbarni for the "No more blank walls festival" in the northern Perth suburb of Mount Lawley in April 2022, in the little lane on the back of theAstor Theatre.
Brendan known as Hope, is a 26 year old born in Darwin but based in Perth, and Kamsani Bin-Salleh, known as Kambarni is an Aboriginal illustrator, who reflects the natural world with his intricate designs. In 2018 he won the Western Australia Young Person of the Year award.
I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week. Thanks, Sami.
In a car park in Beaufort street, just before reaching the Astor Theatre (see posts of last 2 weeks) in the northern suburb of Mount Lawley, I found this interesting mural. It's a very clever mural, because as I stood in front of it I could only see lines and dark spaces, but when I focused my camera lens all of a sudden I saw faces.
Painted by Perth artist Dipesh Prasad, aka "Peche" in his monochrome style, it was part of the "No more blank walls festival" in April 2022.
For other signs from around the world please check Tom's blog.
On Thursday 5th, Jose and I went to a movie premiere of the hilarious film "How to please a woman". It was filmed in the suburb of Fremantle with mostly Australian actors. The main actress is Sally Phillips, a British actress which I had last seen in the movie "Off the Rails" in March.
Bottom- Sally Phillips (the main character) and Q&A with the directors, writer and Hayley McElhinney (red jacket)
I don't think I had ever seen a movie house so so full of people and such a vibrant audience that clapped, laughed and cheered all the way to the end.
Before the session started Jose managed to get a box of nibbles that was being given to the audience, and he bought 2 glasses of wine. There was a short presentation and at the end no one left the cinema until the end of the "Question and answer session" with the Australian producers Tania Chambers and Judi Levine, director Renée Webster and one of the main actors Hayley McElhinney, who is actually from Perth, and which I knew mainly from Australian TV series.
On the morning of Saturday 7th, Jose, I and a young couple who we met through the "Buy Nothing group" and also part of the "Community Harvest Group" went to pick olives. After lunch Jose and I went to the house of neighbour who had donated olives that had been requested via the "Buy Nothing group". In total that day Jose and I collected about 80Kg.
In the evening we attended Mother's Day dinner at the Portuguese Club. Dinner is free for female members.
Dinner at the Portuguese club
Monday 10th - At work, the receptionist who had been there for just 8 weeks didn't show up to work during 2 days and no message or phone call to justify. Eventually after many calls and messages from our end, she messaged the boss to say she was resigning!
That is now the third receptionist that leaves within the first couple of months, and with the huge lack of workers around, I'm getting worried that by the time I go on my overseas holidays we will be down to 3 staff members when we used to be 5 or 6.
The following day one of my colleagues who had just returned from a short holiday and was meant to start back at work on the Wednesday, called in sick with Covid, plus one of the Doctors was diagnosed with covid too! So you can imagine how crazy it got!
Friday 13th - Two members of the "Community Harvest Group" came to my house and we loaded our cars with the buckets of olives and drove to and olive pressing place - Tarralea Grove in the suburb of Jarrahdale - 45 min south-east of Perth in the Darling Ranges also know as the Perth Hills.
Just as we rounded the corner from my house, the passenger window dropped into the door with a loud bang. We returned home and with some semi-transparent plastic and tape I covered the window and off we went hoping it was enough to drive all the way there and back and hold up against the rain threatening to fall from very dark skies.
As we were having lunch it started pouring, luckily I had put the plastic to the outside of the window, so no rain got inside.
The olive grove, our olives in the press and my "plastic" window
After weighing the olives we were surprised we had 109kg (240lb)! The lovely couple invited us to check the start of the olive oil process, then the three of us went for lunch and returned 90min later to pick our cold pressed olive oil - 15,5lt (4.09 gallons) of it! The oil is now in a metal canister we brought from Portugal, where we used to put the home-made olive oil we would buy every year. It needs to stay there for 6 weeks and then can be decanted into bottles.
Saturday 14th - I took my car to a windowscreen shop, where a friendly chap managed to pull up the glass, put some rubber stoppers at the bottom, ordered the part and sent me on my way.
I returned on Monday after work, to have the new part installed and it just took about 1 hour.
Friday 20th - Met up with Grace , (who some of you might know from the "Perth daily photo" blog) at Ikea for lunch and a chat. While having lunch a Portuguese friend of mine who I hadn't seen for a couple of months walked past and we asked her to join us, and we had a lovely time.
Welcome to Ikea
"Kindness is Free"
Saturday 21st - The dinner/dance event for the election of the WA Portuguese of the Year - to be held at the Portuguese club was cancelled due to a lot of guests having Covid. It has been postponed to mid August.
Sunday 22nd - Federal elections, voting at the local school. Voting is compulsory and this year they even had "telephone voting" for those at home with covid.
Thursday 26th - we went out to dinner for the first time to a Korean restaurant not far from us. It is a BBQ style restaurant - you got your meat, chicken, prawns, calamari, either raw or marinated and grill it at the table grill. There were various salads, rice, potatoes and other accompaniments. To end the meal we helped ourselves to ice-cream and fruit and a few small cakes.
One of our female Doctors/friend who was going on holidays, gave me and another colleague a bunch of sunflowers to thank us for our work. So lovely to feel recognized for a job well done.
I finished two furniture projects and have started a big one...
A plain white bedside table now sports a jeans like style paint and a 1950's sideboard that I started painting in January was finally done.
The old sideboard
I also upcycled a bicycle that was "verge shopped" - the handlebar had a bit of rust and I spray painted it silver and the beige bits were painted in black. Looks more modern now I think.
Until the last week of the month we have had great Autumn weather with temperatures up to 26C (78,8F) with a few rainy days here and there. But of course at night the temperatures drop and Twiggy loves to snuggle under a blanket.
Twiggy is feeling the cold. A dove and magpie on top of the postbox eating seeds
And I end this post with one last sign, seen in front of a carpet shop.
