Sunday Selections

 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.