Hurrah! My new glasses are here:
This is printed on one of the cleaning cloths.
The green rimmed glasses are for using at the computer, the red rimmed ones are for watching TV, and the dark glasses are anti glare sun glasses and good for wearing in the car. I also have some very strong black framed glasses for reading and writing and looking at pricetags in the shops.
Here is what you can find in Google about The Fred Hollows Foundation:
Affectionately known as ‘The King of Waltz’, André performs a series of concerts in his home town of Maastricht, in The Netherlands every year, which are always André’s most popular concerts of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Ark
Yesterday I missed out on watching “Russian Ark”. I remember that I have seen it a few years ago in a cinema. But I am sure it would be interesting to watch it again. Peter did watch it yesterday online while I was fiddling around with lots and lots of YouTube items about music and dancing with flash mobs in different cities. While I was doing this, I also came to notice videos about the dancing of some people in their 90s! I thought this was really quite remarkable. Anyhow I took to publishing some of the videos. I started with this one about a flash mob in Amsterdam that happened on Feb 29, 2016: In the write-up about this video it says:”More than 250 people participated in a ‘feelgood’ stunt this morning during rush hour at the Central Station in Antwerp, Belgium. Grease, the Musical opens in Antwerp on March 4th. This is how we drew attention to the opening week. Grease is definitely still the word!”https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=s_hlvRNgGOQ
https://auntyuta.com/2018/06/03/a-bit-of-music-and-dancing/
A pair of red glasses, a pair of green glasses and a pair of black glasses: These are the glasses that I chose last week to be fitted with different lenses to help me cope with my deteriorating eyesight. I am so looking forward to be picking them up some time this week or early next week!
Peter and I watched the new series MYSTERY ROAD on ABC last night. I just noticed in THE GUARDIAN a very interesting write up about MYSTERY ROAD:
And this article about the “Best Film and TV Streaming in Australia this month” seems to be most interesting too.
I forgot what time of the day it was when I took the following pictures on one of my little walks. But I can see it was a sunny day. I always think it is delightful to see the sun-rays shining through the various trees and plants.
Today, on the 26th of May, we spend the afternoon with two of our friends in the Dapto Leagues Club after having had Lunch with them at the club’s Treasure Court Restaurant.
After lunch we had afternoon coffee and cake and a glass of wine. Both Peter and friend Klaus had had their birthday this month. Being club members, they had received vouchers for drinks, coffee and cake as well as for an ice-cream birthday cake at the Treasure Court Restaurant. For lunch I chose again small prawns in curry/vegetable sauce with boiled rice, Tilde had the same, Klaus chose chicken schnitzel and chips, and Peter had beef, vegetables and boiled rice. As entree we had mini vegetable spring rolls, and all of us had also Chinese tea. We thought it was a very satisfying lunch.
We have known Tilde and Klaus since 1959. All of us had come as migrants to Australia on a huge ocean liner, the P & O Straithaird. We are always happy when we can see each other from time to time.
Today Peter and I walked along this path. There was a lot of work for the Blue Mile Project going on. So this path did lead us to the Continental Pool where it did not go any further. We noticed on the board that the water temperature was 18 Degrees Celsius. Since it was a clear sunny day with no wind at all, I thought a swim in the water would just be wonderful. A few people were actually in the water! I was quite envious of them.
From the following link you may get an idea what the Blue Mile Project is all about. It is really one more undertaking to make living in Wollongong or visiting Wollongong even more attractive. Walking along the foreshore of Wollongong Harbour is a great experience. One can never get too much of it. We finished our little excursion with a bite at this kiosk:
Levendi Wollongong Harbour, Wollongong, New South Wales. Located at the heart of the iconic Wollongong Harbour. Specialising in fish & chips,…
We had fish & chips as well as some fruit salad. Then we went home by bus to where we had our car parked in Dapto. We picked up a few things in Dapto shopping centre. Arriving home we had some filtered coffee and a sour dough bread roll with some butter. We were happy that we had gone out to spend todays beautiful mild late autumn weather near Wollongong Harbour.
http://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/services/majorprojects/bluemile/Pages/default.aspx
| Foreshore improvements to the stretch of harbour between Stuart Park and Wollongong Golf Club |
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Stretching from Stuart Park in the north to Wollongong Golf Club in the south, the Blue Mile is an iconic and much-loved section of our coastline.
In my ‘Childhood Memories’ I published this:
https://auntyuta.com/2016/05/24/my-paternal-grandparents/
In this post I wrote about the birth of my little brother. This ‘little’ brother is about to turn 80. Yes, on the 9th of June this year he is going to be 80. He still lives in Berlin in a home for the aged where he is well looked after. On a visit to Berlin I was able to see brother Bodo on his 78th birthday. My younger brother Peter Uwe also came to Berlin at the time. So two years ago, on the 9th of June, Peter Uwe and I went together to see our brother Bodo! Now, in 2018, he is going to turn 80 . . . . !
So some time ago I published among other things the following:
On the 9th of June 1938 my brother Bodo Alexander was born. He was born at home in our apartment in Berlin, Bozener Strasse. Here in this picture he is only a few hours old. I was thrilled to have a baby brother! I believed the ‘Klapperstorch’ had brought him. Mum’s sister Ilse was very excited about this addition to the family as well. Later on I always heard stories about how this home delivery took place. And I did sleep through all of it.When I woke up in the morning, Tante Ilse led me to the cot in the parent’s bedroom. And surprise, surprise, der Klapperstorch had brought a beautiful baby boy. I do remember how he was there in his cot. Later on was taken the above picture where the baby is in Mum’s bed and I am beside Mum looking at my beautiful little brother.
Today is Peter’s 83rd Birthday. For lunch at home we created our own Cheese platter and had it with quite a lot of wine. Delicious! Tonight we’ll go out with Monika and Mark to the Treasure Court Restaurant at the Dapto Leagues Club.
While we had lunch we were listening to Peter’s new CD:
skinnyfishmusic.com.au
GURRUMUL
DJARIMIRRI – Child of the Rainbow
This is beautiful music and wonderful music to dance to!!
A couple of hours ago I looked at some “Nuclear News” and copied and published some of it. Should I not take notice of any “Nuclear News” because these news tend to sicken me immensely?
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ostrich
Under the above definition about “ostrich” I found the following:
“Origin of ostrich
So, do I wish to avoid to confront this dangerous situation? If all this nuclear news bothers me continuously, should I not stop to read about it? No, I don’t think so. Is it possible that a lot of people just do not want to be informed truthfully because the truth would upset them too much. Instead they rather believe lies. Believing in what are obviously lies is somehow more soothing to them than being confronted with the truth. Has “believing” in lies some survival value? Maybe. – Maybe Orwell in his story “1984” did see it this way?
However, today I do not want to dwell on this “nuclear business” for too long. Instead, I want to think back on what a wonderful day Mothers’ Day 2018 turned out to be for our family.
As I said in another post, we were expecting our family to turn up at our place in the afternoon for coffee and cake. And so it happened. The guests arrived right on time, among them were three mothers and I was the fourth one.
My two daughters were among the guests. My son had given me a ring from Victoria a bit earlier to wish me a Happy Mother’s Day and telling me the news about Benalla and his family and asking me about it how I was going to spend my Mother’s Day.
I did get some lovely flowers from my daughters:
I asked Caroline and Matthew to fill the glasses with a welcome drink.
So there were my daughters with their partners as well as two grand-daughters and two grandsons, two of my great-grandchildren, son-in-law’s mother, grandson’s wife (mother of the two great-grandsons that were present) and the other grandson’s girl-friend. So quite a lot of the family were able to come along for a little Mothers’ Day celebration. Peter and I were very happy about this!
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