My day was very pleasant with exercise, reading, cooking and a eye out for a good photo! I so enjoy seeing everyone else’s shot for the day.
My be better on the Black!
Three Good Things;
1 Our yellow rhododendron is out at its best I took the ND filter off the lens to see if it made any difference. No comment,
2, My magazine gift from Britain arrived today for John - called “The Week” - chose it for diversity and good reporting.
3. Enjoyed the humour and communication from a new 365’er - @golftragic Sounds like me - the only way I play golf!
@maggiemae New to you, but my fifth year with 365. I spotted somewhere you were from Oumaru which is such an interesting place that I thought I'd follow you. I'm into industrial history and the like and after spending a few hours in Oumaru on a golf trip a few years ago I've been hanging out to see more of the area.
@golftragic Pays to spot new photographers - nice to meet you Marnie. Oamaru is a fabulous place to live and more and more people are deciding to live here!
@olivetreeann We have 8 rhodes in our garden, Ann all coming out at different times! I don't have the purple colour though unfortunately! That might be soon remedied!
@maggiemae I enjoy meeting new 365ers, that is to say, new to me. I hope your growing population doesn't spoil the ambience of your lovely town. We're experiencing a population boom here in Geelong, much of it is an overflow from Melbourne. But most of us long-timers think the city is getting far too big and crowded, we liked the quieter life we had only a few years back.
@golftragic But Geelong has 177 thousand population, Marnie - we have 13000! It is still a place where people smile at you in the street, not because you look funny but because they are happy, I think!
@maggiemae Unfortunately, the powers-that-be have designated swathes of (former) farmland about 15Km out of the CBD as new suburbs which are sprouting hundreds of little boxes like mushrooms after rain. There are more outlier suburbs on the way too. Most of those people work in Geelong and the roads aren't coping. Coupled with the rapid growth of towns on the Bellerine Peninsula the population of the City of Greater Geelong is now around 250,000. Thirty years ago it was, maybe, half of that. 13,000 sounds perfect to me!
@maggiemae I can well understand that. We've started toying with possible options. The main problems is that we both in our 70s and have medical problems and Geelong has far better per capita numbers of doctors, dentists, specialists and hospitals than Melbourne. I fear we've left it a bit late.
@golftragic You sound a bit like us. We shifted here - hospital 4 mins away as are doctors but what hubby says most - crematorium is 1/2 block away and Margaret can push me there!!
