I'm joining with Elephant's Child, River and others.
Is this a cicada or just a cicada shell? I looks alive but why was it sitting on a hot pavement in the sun?
This was news to me. I spotted it arriving at Melbourne's Station Pier. The ship is Straight Link and is a freight only ship across Bass Straight from Port Burnie on Tasmania's north coast.
What is Phyllis going to cook that he is bookmarked, with my bookmark? I don't think it happened.
Keeping with a nautical theme, I took the lads down to see Queen Elizabeth moored at Station Pier. While she is a very large ship, she didn't look so large when sailing past in the bay.
The Elwood Canal, or Elster Creek as it is correctly called, floods at times and of course those nearest the canal cop it the worst. As an aside, Elwood has the only ford I know of in suburban Melbourne. There is a ford in Altona and that is being rebuilt at the moment, and I wouldn't call paddocks a suburban area.
Nice one Phyllis. I keep nagging them about eating more greens and I seem to be having an impact.
Would you believe these flowers were about four weeks old when I took this photo. Quite amazing and I don' know what they are, in spite of a little Guggling.
I mentioned cheques in my last post and I was clearing out the filing cabinet and I came across this stamp, which you use to stamp vertically or at a 45 degree angle across the face of cheque. you had written. I can't remember exactly why but it effectively meant you had to pay it into a bank account. I think when my father needed cash, he would make the payee of a cheque, 'Cash' and would hand it over the counter, mostly at a pub.
As you can see, it has perished. It would be over twenty years since it was used. Binned.
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That is one huge ship. I wonder how many it carries - and how many people are needed to run the ship and service their needs.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that is a deceased cicada. In my memory (which is often faulty) the shells have no colour being a kind of tan all over.
EC, up to 2,500 pax and 900 crew. Yes, I remember coming across the brown shells, now you mention it.
DeleteGood to see the boys eating some greens, even if it is only peas. Try them with sprouts perhaps?
ReplyDeleteI like those frothy flowers. They look a bit like delphiniums ... or feather dusters.
Sprouts might be a laugh, JayCee. There are broccoli, beans and cauliflower in the freezer.
DeleteFeather dusters at the end of their life, I think.
Take the lads on the Spirit of Tasmania. It is not too expensive, there are heaps of activities and the views leaving and arriving are special.
ReplyDeleteHels, they are broke. I paid for their lunches. I am not paying for them to travel the seven seas.
DeleteEating green does make me feel better energy wise
ReplyDeleteRoentare, I always feel good after eating a salad.
DeleteThose peas have a very unhealthy amount of butter. Perhaps address that next...
ReplyDeleteDebby, it might even be ghee, and you are right. Everything must be spiced, oiled or whatever. Not basic fresh food.
DeleteCan you find the recipe for the prawns that weren't cooked? From what I can see it looks delicious and we have a lot of prawns at the moment.
ReplyDeleteThose white flowers were everywhere here recently and do last for an incredible time when cut and I cannot remember the name!
If you didn't cross the cheque the payee could make it out to anybody ... like the landlord of the pub or the local pawn shop. Some cheques came pre-printed with "not negotiable account payee only". Oh the days of running an office pre computers!
Info sent Merlot. I thought one of my readers would know. Yes, the cheque didn't even need a name but it could, and whether it was named or 'Cash' was written, if not crossed you could hand it over pretty well anywhere. Yes, I remember the pre printed cheques. We used to stamp all of our 25 cheques in the book with the stamp.
DeleteThe fifth picture suggests that you have pixies living in Melbourne. Do they get to vote?
ReplyDeleteYP, of course they do. Isn't there a letter P in LGBTI....
DeleteI remember people marking two diagonal lines across a cheque and writing non or not negotiable, in case a cheque was lost or dropped, it meant whoever found it could only deposit it to the bank account it was meant for, so they couldn't steal the money.
ReplyDeleteThe Straight Link looks like a fine ship. What would that recipe be? With enlarging and the aid of a magnifying glass I could make out "spicy garlic" something, and now I'm curious.
River, I think anyone could deposit a Not Negotiable cheque, but there was the bank record. I may be wrong about that.
DeleteLove any post on ships. I remember those stamps, seems like a century ago.
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WWW, the stamps are such a distant memory now. It was funny to come across the stamp and the memories it brought forth.
DeleteI remember those rubber stamps, I used to use them before the bank printed on all our cheque for the business way back, not negotiable..
ReplyDeleteThe flowers looked good.
Strange to see a boat from the Port of Burnie coming into berth after being across Bass Strait to Melbourne, it reminded me of times on the Spirit.
Ok Margaret. The cheques in your cheque book were pre printed with Not Negotiable. My father's cheque book was double, that is two cheques per page. He paid everything by cheque. He was a non cash person a long time before I became one.
DeleteI guess you didn't know about the freight ship either. I wonder if it carries truck trailers as well, like the Spirit did.
I write half a dozen checks a year, fewer and fewer each year. The local county tax office charges extra for anything but checks or cash.
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DeleteAll but completely stopped now. Private and business cheques will cease in a year or so, then government cheques not long after.
You have fairy's there, living in your creek trees? My neighbor's about to take a cruise, out of Florida. I think she's looking forward to no rain, some sun, and the casinos on board.
ReplyDeleteYes Strayer. It never rains off the Florida coast.
DeleteI like the fairy letter - so sweet. Tell the boys that eating fresh, unbuttered greens will increase their energy levels, improve their skin and enliven their love lives!
ReplyDeleteJB, that should influence them, rather than me talk about health benefits.
DeleteThat cicada shell is fascinating! It's always interesting to spot things like that. The freight ship crossing Bass Strait sounds like an interesting sight as well. I can imagine the Queen Elizabeth looking impressive, though it might seem smaller when out at sea. Elwood Canal flooding sounds like it can be quite troublesome. It's great to hear that your encouragement to eat more greens is making an impact! The flowers being four weeks old is quite impressive, too. I haven't seen one of those cheque stamps in ages, it's amazing what you find while clearing things out.
ReplyDeleteI just shared a new post; let me know what you think. Have a lovely weekend ahead.
Thanks Melody.
DeleteI just had to come back. That's a cicada. To molt, the cicada climbs on a vertical surface, i.e. a tree. It secures itself, and then splits the 'shell' down the back and climbs free of it. Amazing the things that I learn from blogs.
ReplyDeleteDebby, I had forgotten that. We used to often find the shells on trees.
DeleteYeah, that stamp looks like a thing of the past. I remember in "Muriel's Wedding," Muriel had her mother write checks to "cash" when she needed money ostensibly to invest in a business -- but which she wound up stealing to go on holiday.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what those flowers are either. I don't think I've ever seen anything like them. They look like some kind of succulent, like a yucca?
That is definitely a cicada, either alive or perhaps dying.
Steve, you have a good memory of the film. Even today, you can, albeit rarely, still hear someone say the phrase, "You're terrible Muriel".
DeleteI had never seen those flowers myself.