Sunday Selections

I'm joining with Elephant's Child and River for Sunday Selections. 

A large pot of meat sauce was made by R for spaghetti Bolognese. First we fry an onion. There was enough left over for one lunch the next day and half the sauce was frozen to be later made into this lasagne, which gave us two meals of lasagne and one lunch.

The Royce Hotel, closed at the beginning of the of what seems the never ending pandemic. Victoria alone had 108 deaths last week from Covid. We are not a situation of post Covid. The Royce Hotel takes it name from being a Rolls Royce dealership. In the early eighties I remember street side petrol bowsers still in front of the building. At some point our army took occupancy of the building. Maybe in the very early noughties it became the Royce Hotel. In the Covid years of 2020 to 2023 it has been extensively renovated with more hotel accommodation rooms added. It looks fantastically flash and this photo of the entrance was taken through the front glass door. I think it will reopen in weeks, if not days.

What is the writing on the number plate? How do you buy such plates? It looks Arabic but maybe Hindi. Ferrars Street, Albert Park. 

Thunderbirds are go. This Thunderbird, around a 1955 model did go, effortlessly. Not bad for a nearly 70 year old car. Market Street, South Melbourne which is oddly a street away from South Melbourne Market on York Street. 

What is this car about? There isn't advertising, just decoration. How queer. 

That's quite a copper patina on the roof of a building I know so well, but I can't remember where it is.

Only if I am talking to someone who knows the right words would I say, 'We rarely see a reticulated bus in our area'. The bus was in service during the appalling managed tram replacement by buses. Articulated is the correct word.  I also might describe a vehicle's braking as degenerative rather than the correct regenerative. I like degenerative. It seems like more fun.

Why?

A poor attempt at flower photography. The lilies did look nice.

Oh wow. Nine balloons in sight as dawn breaks. I must have gotten up for a wee at a very early hour and saw this. So many want to balloon cruise above our city.