Sunday Selections

Updates: Kosov is fine, but now seems to have a cold, and is complaining of a sore arm, the one where he was injected. He was given a prescription for antibiotics, the very old but I am sure effective, Amoxicillin. 

Me, the antibiotics worked and my arm is fine and my finger is is improving. A layer of skin flaked off, so the new skin is pink but will soon look normal.

On with the show of Sunday Selections, joining in with River and others. 

Photos from last year first. I took this photo of the back of the tv before it was disconnected for the painting and carpeting. It was no help at all. Phyllis moved in the day after the work was done and I made a temporary tv connection, but it was two weeks before I asked Phyllis for help to get the wires all plugged into the Fetch Box, the DVD player and the sound system (it is no kind of sound system by modern standards). There were many redundant wires, which we marked with tape and sorted it out. I was so pleased to have something back to normal, but there was still much to do.  

These are before photos. The carpet doesn't look so bad but it had gathered in a couple of places, was badly oil stained at the desk where the desk chair had leaked fluid, and not great where it met the kitchen floor tiles. It was blue, although it doesn't look like that in the photo, which looked so old fashioned. 

Yes, the furniture is old fashioned, but we had vaguely looked and we could never see anything that would work as well. 

I think this was at Moreland Station, an honour public library. 

At the top is now where the train runs and the train platform. 

Sometimes I buy flowers, sometimes Phyllis and Kosov buy flowers. 

Brunch before last, I took neighbour HH to Acorn Nursery to buy a plant for my balcony. I liked this water feature sculpture. 

The Lego train set is growing. 

I didn't do anything for Valentine's Day, but this was nice from Phyllis and Kosov. 

Young people's stuffs. 

The Royce Hotel almost opposite me was once a Rolls Royce dealership. I remember seeing petrol bowsers on the edge of the footpath in front of the building. The building was subsequently used by the Australian Army and then became a hotel with a bar and I expect a restaurant. The rear was extended and elevated to a higher level for more rooms. 

Substantial renovations during Covid times saw it looking very upmarket, which I personally found threatening. We occasionally had a drink or coffee there but it is now too intimidating. I would guess this car might be used to pick up extra special guests from the airport or wherever. Wouldn't it be so nice...