Clapsticks, Anyone?

 

 

One more item we got in our "second home". For Nicole´s...

 

 

 

These are - as Wiki describes: "Clapsticks, also spelt clap sticks and also known as bilma, bimli, clappers, musicstick or just stick, are a traditional Australian Aboriginal instrument. They serve to maintain rhythm in voice chants, often as part of an Aboriginal ceremony."

 

They sound great, but we cannot "play" them, here is a detail:

 

 

That lizard is also called blue-tongued skink, as wiki explains here.

 

We met one:

  

 

Ingo stopped the car to get the guy off the road - I grabbed the cam...

 

Here is one from Wiki:

 

 Dude didn´t understand and thought it´s NOT FUNNY!!!, showing us the tongue!

 

I am horribly tired since days and hope I don´t come down with a flu or such so just this. 

I hope to show you the outcome from Friday next time! 

Now... listen and smile with Gillena:

 

 

And welcome November:

 

 

From Adelaide - thanks to River! - back home:

 

Hihi, see, if you like, post tomorrow!... And to Perth/Freo:

 

Henry 🦁

 

Happy Sunday! 

 

 

Karma!

It was a Summer´s day in 1978. "Take care of your Brother!", Mom said and left us in the garden.

I carried him to a tree so he can practice how to sit and left for the swing to read a book.

 

Not long and he started to complain. 

Of course I ignored that.

 

He started to cry. He started to yell. Scream!!! I ran to get Mom.

She took him up, smelled, all good but he didn´t stop!!!! By now it was real bad.

 

Mom opened the nappy and started to... laugh.

 

I swear: It was not on purpose!!!! 

I sat the poor guy on an ant hill.

He has two daughters, "nothing"´s broken and he celebrates another Birthday tomorrow.

 

Fast forward to 1999. I parked the car, took out the chairs, Ingo and I watched the Sun go down in the ocean near Kalbarri, Western Australia.

Ingo: "Owwww!!!" Despite the heat I wore socks but at one point: "owwww!" - grabbed down: pollen. Huh?! Brushed them off. Ingo: "owwww!!!"... yips, wasn´t pollen but huge Australian ants!!!! II´d put my chair directly on their nest....

 

2010 or such (?) our bus from Madeley to Perth broke down, we all had to get out. I stood in the grass when....

So of course 2017 I had to buy this piece of art in Freo and join Nicole´s...

 

 SITAR.

And, if you smiled or grinned... Gillena´s Sunday Smiles...

 

Let´s go back to 1995:

 

 I show you this as a good bye by an Emu, who roams the area, too:

 

 Let me be chaotic like the weather here, I need to show you these two before I really say good-bye and wish you a happy Sunday:

 

 

 

Wiki: "Local legend claims this boab tree near Derby was used as a prison, hence the name the 'Boab Prison Tree' "

 

If I remember correct, what we did in Derby was getting our car fixed.

We´ve been wondering why the workers had beers.

Turned out... it was a Saturday arvo!!! Actually they´d closed down already...

For little money and with big smiles they not only fixed what´d broken but also a bit more that was to break soon. 

Go, visit Derby, on any day! 

And watch the tide of 11.8 metres (39 ft)!!!! More than in Broome! Which is already scary! 

 

 

Tea, Anyone?

With the colder temps comes more tea, right? And when you´re like me the bag has to get out as soon as required time is out, so a mobile holder is always handy and these three Kookaburras are happy to help out.

 

You wanna join me? No worries, how about a eucalyptus-tea?

 

 

2016?! Hoh, boy, time runs! 

Running, btw.. the tea needs to "go" at some point, right? Here, use that:

 

 

A place too scary?

Helps if she joins you? 

 

 After all it´s Halloween soon!

This is for Nicole´s...

 

 SITAR.

 

And, if it made you smile, for more join Gillena.

 

These two enjoy!

 

 Happy Sunday.

 

 

 

 

FFO - Pull My Finger!

Let´s start with this innocent face to join Nicole´s... 

 ... shall we? 

 

 

 

 

 And for Gillena´s I have this:

 

 

And how about a smile?

 

 And some laughs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And, last....

 

Have a great FFO!

Henry 🦁

  

Come Back Here!!!

Weee, when did we get this and where? It was NOT 1999 in Alice, I think it was some time in Freo and let me show you some details:

 

This is for Nicole´s...

And Gillena´s...

Henry 🦁

  Have an arty Sunday!

 

FFO Is Green

 

 

Yep, I fall for stuff like that! This was a peel-off-mask in a coooool color! Could´ve joined TOS (Star Trek: The Original Series) with that, don´t you think?!

 

This if for Nicole´s...

 

 And for Gillena - speaking of the color green:

 

 And something to make you smile:

 

Some funnies:

   

 

 

And....

 Henry 🦁

Have a fun Friday first, though!