Monthly Wrap-up - November

Sat 2nd - The Canning Agricultural, Horticultural & Recreational Society (Cahrs) held the annual Canning show from Friday 1st to Saturday 2nd.

Our Community Harvest group has been participating for the last couple of years, and this year we just participated for a few hours with a Kids Pasta Making workshop. After that we served up pasta with sauce that had been previously prepared.

We were visited by the "Marvel team"

 Legos, art, photography, flowers, flower arranging, cake decorating, etc, etc...was on display at the Canning show.

Sunday 3rd - Our local "Buy Nothing" organized a "Buy nothing garage sale".  I had lots of stuff to be gifted, but the garage sale wasn't too successful for any of the participants. Not too well advertised, too many events in our area that weekend....

Anyway, a few days later I advertised the items individually on the Buy Nothing facebook page and managed to get rid of a few items.

Friday 8th - Together with another couple, Jose and I met up with a friend visiting from Tasmania, and we had dinner at The Wellard Pub.

Saturday 9th - Sara, who was recently voted as the "Portuguese Community Counsellor", organized the First education session at the Perth Portuguese club, with members in various fields - education, business, aged care, consular matters...

Sunday 10th - With my friend Maria we attended the "Open House Perth" event by visiting 3 architect renovated houses - 2 in the northern suburbs and 1 in Fremantle. This year we had to book our visits (at least for the houses...).  We loved seeing clever ideas.

The we had lunch in Fremantle, at an Italian restaurant "Vin Populi". Food was delicious, service great.

                                  

Wednesday 20th  - I put up my Christmas tree to be able to enjoy it a little bit since we won't be home for Christmas. We will have our usual big get-together with family and friends, but this year it will be the weekend before we leave.

Thursday 28th - Dr S. invited me to go with her and family to a candlelight concert at the old Perth Town Hall in the city centre.

Even though I'm not a great fan of classical music, I quite enjoyed the 1 hour long concert, and found it very relaxing.

On the way to the train station to return home I stopped to take photos of some of the Christmas lights in the city centre. This year there wasn't even time for a proper visit to the "Christmas lights trail".

Saturday 30th - Jose and I spent a few hours working in the garden and preparing our patio area for the upcoming Christmas lunch with friends.

It was our wedding anniversary, so we went to dinner at the Italian restaurant "Vin Populi" in Fremantle. I had been there with my friend Maria on the 10th and suggested to Jose we go there.  He also liked the food.

One of the days I went to my weekly Occupational Therapy session in South Perth, near the Swan River and took photos of these cute statues of meerkats and the area near the ferry station.

Another day returning home from the Occupational therapy in Claremont, I took the river road instead of the inner road and stopped at one of the parks.

Great river views, mega mansions... these suburbs are where the other half live 😎

After over 2 months after my hand operation there's been no improvement despite the physio and home exercises... I've had an MRI done, blood tests - nothing much apart from scar tissue, which we are trying to massage away... Hand still doesn't fold to palm as finger stills swollen and doesn't go straight either... so I'm actually worse off than before the operation. Very frustrating!!

A sunset near Coogee beach (near Fremantle)

A sunset seen from my backyard

Jacaranda time - a street in the suburb of Applecross

BIRDS:

The beautifully made nest from the Willie wagtail in one of the trees in my front garden

A magpie and it's baby, and a magpie in the nest - in the park across from my house

OTHER SIGNS: 

"All you need is love and a good cup of coffee"

Personalized number plates

Monday Murals - In Maylands II

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 

More murals from the riverside suburb of Maylands, just northeast of the city centre.

On Greenslade Lane, at the back of Squires Real Estate -  a mural that pays tribute to famous names of the music industry, painted in 2016 by various artists. (Not the best likeness I think...)

Jimmy Hendrix painted by Shime

Jim Morrison painted by Amuck37 

Bob Marley

Behind some gates was this graffiti wall in the same lane as the above mural.

On Lyric Lane

This will be my last Monday Mural post for this year, as we are flying out on Friday to Doha, Qatar where we will spend Christmas with our daughter and son in law. The first Monday Mural in 2025 will be published on the 13th January.

Wishing all my readers a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Monday Murals - In Maylands I

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 the riverside suburb of Maylands, just northeast of the city, there are quite a few murals. These were photographed last year.

Painted by New Zealand born, Perth resident Graeme Miles Richards, this mural was painted on a garage door at the back of Lyric Lane Bar, in Lyric Lane in November 2022.

On the walls of "Liquor Barons" in Ellard Lane, this mural was painted by Australia artist and author Kyle Hughes-Odgers.

On another wall of Liquor Barons another mural by unknown artist.

Next week's (16th December) mural post will be my last for this year, as we will be flying to Qatar on the 20th to spend Christmas and New Year with our daughter and son in law, who will be residing there for the next 4 years. I'll be back home and posting Monday Murals on Monday 13th January 2025.

Monday Murals - Fauna and Flora of Lake Claremont

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 

I had heard of a mural painted by Brenton See at Lake Claremont, so after one of my visits to the Occupational Therapist and the Hand specialist at Bethesda Hospital in the suburb of Claremont, I drove the short distance to the lake, which is part of a conservation category wetland, that supports wildlife above and below the water.

The mural painted in 2021/22 on a shed in one of the park's areas represents the wildlife and flora around the Lake and park, and as usual his work is stunning!