Yesterday‘s op shop purchases. I probably should have laid off my foot but I needed the distraction as I‘m not allowed back at ballet. All for the bargain price of $28 which is pretty good in today‘s climate.
Yesterday‘s op shop purchases. I probably should have laid off my foot but I needed the distraction as I‘m not allowed back at ballet. All for the bargain price of $28 which is pretty good in today‘s climate.
I‘ve got a🦶injury & I ain‘t coping! Thanks to Kylie, the author of this 📕 for keeping me slightly sane this week & hopefully only this week, while I rest from 🩰. Turns out I‘m not good at that. Kylie‘s old friend, Jo recommended this 📕 to me & I already owned it so bumped it up my TBR list. I don‘t normally read a 📕 in a week but this is an 🖼️ in itself. I may actually get the author to sign it at the Newcastle Writer‘s Festival & keep it.
I love me some op shopping down time. Had a discount card on this day a while back too as I had 5 stamps on my card. It gives you a discount on the clothes. Woo hoo!
Saturday‘s book swap scores after ballet. I had the day to myself as my partner was off leprechauning at a Beer Festival. I don‘t drink beer. Bliss!
Today‘s scores from the Little Free Library on the way to my 3 hrs of ballet. It‘s going to be a lovely day. It‘s warm already. On my walk home I‘ll visit another book swap. Then I have nothing to do for the rest of the weekend but I will grab a chai, go to the beach, drink champagne in my pjs and cook up a storm ready for more work lunches and ballet dinners. I suppose I best do a bit of housework too 😢 eg change the sheets.
I ❤️ my grandfather‘s family farm. They moved to a smaller 🏡 after my great aunt Jenny died in ‘88. It was a very free range childhood & the garden was like the 1 in the tagged 📖 but with 🦚 & a pet 🦘 called 🧚. My fav smells were the mint growing around a🚰 in the garden, the 🍊 in the orchard & the smell of Aunty Jenny‘s sister, great Aunty Marjory‘s fruit toast & 🧈 when my Nan would take me to visit her. She also had a camomile lawn!
Yesterday‘s visit to the book swap after ballet. I had a stretch and a champagne when I got home and read one of the magazines. I‘m reading another on the train this morning after getting up early to clean before the cleaner arrives today. Ha!
Sunday first thing in the morning Sustainable Stockton ad. I was perusing Facebook and jumped straight out of bed instead of finishing my pot of tea and hurkle durkling and fast walked to this stall of freebies. It was quite a warm walk there and back with my step daughter. Me being me, aside from books, I also got jewellery and a jewellery box, scarves, a tea thermos, a pair of sun glasses, candles, colouring, crossword and sticker books. Hooray
An 🇦🇺 author in the style of Jane Harper‘s later 📚& my w/e read for one of my 📕 clubs. The weather was gorgeous. Lots of time was spent in the hammock with a margarita in hand after being gifted some limes from a colleague & the 🛀 with a 🍷 reading after a big Sat at 🩰. Bring on next w/e & hopefully more 🏝️ weather. There were some cool little, shallow whirlpools my step daughter & I had fun wading in. The waves were too big for me on Sun.
Books from the Little Free Library on my way to ballet yesterday. I was first to arrive so took the picture then rolled my feet out.
Little Free Library spoils from the holidays.
My enthusiasm is waning towards the end. Lucky it was only from the local book swap in an attempt to stick to my poem a day rule.
1. 🩰 , 🩰 and more 🩰 only 6 hours this week though also tickets to the local writer‘s festival come on sale this week so that‘s exciting. I got some limes off a colleague so it‘s margarita and hammock time on the weekend. 2. Stew and I are off to the local Italian restaurant at the RSL for a weeknight treat of 3 courses of yummy food… bruschetta, gnocchi and panna cotta. 3. Tennis champion in the tagged book. I love tennis so I am ok with that.
The last op shop I visited on Thurs was such a goldmine it didn‘t all fit in this pic. I got a Ghanda tote bag. My step daughters are obsessed with that shop. I usually wrap their presents in them. I scored a May Gibbs gum nut babies handmade 1 as well for the bargain price of $2. There are also toiletries you can‘t see as well as an oil burner, a bandanna & bows to clip above my bun for ballet. I didn‘t try on the swimmers and the top doesn‘t fit
I spent the day in Maitland yesterday while my partner worked.I went to the Red Cross & scored! The 👗is vintage. I was made to read the tagged author for 📕 club & enjoyed it so picked this 1 up. I hope it‘s just as good. I enjoyed The River Cottage show so hopefully this cookbook is good. For $3 I couldn‘t leave it. I was pleased to discover when I was washing these clothes this morning that the dress on the left is made of organic cotton.
First magazine read and the remainder that was not used for collages was recycled. I‘ve also thrown away old mail order catalogues as I have been summer cleaning over the last few days. I don‘t get much of a chance to spring clean due to ballet and work but being a high school teacher I can get a bit done over the summer when I‘m finished at the beach for the day. #MonthlyMagazineBlitz Love this idea as I never seem to get to read all my magazines
Scored at the local primary school book swap last Tuesday on my walk to the shops to get supplies for the kids.
Ballet is done for the year. What will I do with my life? Whatever I want because it is almost summer school holidays! On my very hot walk home on Saturday, I got this stack of mostly poetry to read in the mornings in bed with my tea.
Little Free Library steals from a little while ago. My niece is coming to stay for the week before Xmas and loves Enid Blyton books so that one is for her.
I had a filled 50% off clothes card so I had to go to Salvos after my last 🩰 class of the yr today! From $60? down to $40? I think I‘ll wear the 👗 on the L to dinner with my parents & Stew when I arrive home on Fri & the 👗 on the R to the school 🎄 lunch of 🍔 on Mon. The flares are for a future 👗 up party & need to be taken up as I‘m a short arse. The dvds are to keep me fit over my 🩰 break. I ❤️Mr. Marden, Hooters, Liberty & Toni Childs.
Satan‘s Little Book Coven Xmas party ‘23. Bottomless brunch yum cha and champagne at Ginger Meg‘s followed by the use of dangerous weapons at Maniax then to Bartholomew‘s for the present games. One of us fell off a chair and I didn‘t catch them in time and then it was all over. The itinerary is a surprise every year. I guessed the axe throwing this year but definitely not the feast, how competitive the games were and how drunk some of us would get
A spot of op shopping after work one Friday arvo earlier in the month. It‘s usually my only afternoon in the week to do as I please then I go home and watch Gardening Australia with a glass of wine. Sometimes I fall asleep on the lounge cause I‘m buggered!
1. The tagged book a tad early for #authorofthemonth as I found it at the Salvos at Hamilton for only $4! 2. Another one of Kate‘s if I can find where I put them! #Two4Tuesday
Picked these up from the book swap on Tuesday night‘s walk home after ballet. I over did it and my ankle suffered. Ballet exam is this Sunday so I need it to do as it‘s told. Up til now I was the only one injury free! I‘d really love another distinction. I love 80‘s knits and perhaps one day I‘ll make them.
Big, fat op shop haul from just over a week ago. The cards are for #LitsyLove I adore L‘Occitane products so was pleased to score a travel sized bag full for $2. I love having fabric napkins for dinner parties but because they get trashed so easily I only buy them from op shops. They were only $2 too!
More books from the book swap on the way home from ballet a little while ago. I loved the movie of the tagged book. I watched it years ago so it will be great when I eventually get around to reading the book as I‘m sure it‘s even better.
1. My wonderful life. I‘m very blessed to have beautiful places to live and I get to follow my dreams and do as I please. 2. My family especially my nephews and nieces. They make me very proud and I have lots of fun with them. I love to spoil them. 2 are coming to stay for a week in a months time. 3 Being able to do ballet exams as an adult and train at Top Rock Studios with the gorgeous and clever Georgia. My 12 hrs a week goes towards something.
Last night‘s scores from the shopping centre book swap on my walk home from ballet because it was still daylight when I finished and I would rather walk than accept a lift or catch public transport if I can. I read one of the Better Homes and Garden‘s magazines on the train to work this morning with my chai tea. Delightful.
Books I picked up yesterday on the way to ballet from the Little Free Library. Excuse the Australian grass.
Picked up these from a Little Free Library on my way to ballet yesterday. I did 4 hours so I‘m a bit sore today. Might go for a dip in the ocean later to recover.
Just been away for the weekend in the Hunter Valley with my sisters & mum for a girl‘s weekend to watch The Chicks play at Bimbagen Estate for Day on the Green. Was very relaxing. Lots of wine tasting & yummy food. I started this book by a friend of mine‘s estranged daughter for my book club, The Stockton Hornbags. I‘m enjoying it so far. My friend & I went to see her at the Newcastle Writer‘s Festival this year. She has since released another.
Book Swap spoils from yesterday afternoon‘s walk home. The top one is for my niece Lila, who thinks she has just about read every Enid Blyton book there is and that‘s saying something!
Sunday arvo book swap finds. One for me because I like cooking and one for the evil step children who own a few horses and ride regularly.
I ❤️ this 📖 as much as I ❤️ our 🏖️ getting more sand in time for summer. It was fascinating to watch. The cover of this 📖 is glorious & befitting. I ❤️ me some Maggie. Pic taken by oldest evil step daughter at the 🏖️ this morning after a lay in with 🫖 then some 🥞. Now I am having a day time soak with a glass of pinot gris and a 🛀 bomb. Happy Sunday fellow Australians. I‘m so sorry about yesterday‘s result. I voted yes as any human should.
Got these from the Book Swap after going to the doctors on Monday. I wasn‘t so sick I couldn‘t walk that extra bit. Ha! Bottom book is for the evil step children, top two books are for me and my partner for a giggle. There are real people in the graphic pictures and there is so much hair everywhere! I just couldn‘t leave them behind. Middle two I‘ve never heard of but they sounded interesting.
My local book shop is doing a drive where people can buy books then the bookshop will wrap them and deliver to local book swaps. I was lucky to score the tagged book yesterday. Very exciting. What a lovely idea.
Op shop scores today for the grand total of $4. My last for the holidays 😭. The magazine has excellent book reviews and is only from last month. I read it in the hammock this afternoon with 🥂 . The beautiful print dress is for my niece Sybil and the book for my niece Lila. She loves to read like I do. This thrills me no end. I hope she learns a lot by reading this book. I‘m still learning about the suffering of the suffragettes eg. The 🐎 death.
Got a bit sick yesterday and missed ballet! Today I was still a bit off so took the day off again. I tested myself out with a small walk to the second furthest away book swap from my house (in the back ground of this picture) and did ok so hopefully I can go back to ballet tomorrow.
Yesterday my friend, fellow book club member and neighbour, Kate was giving away all of these books and more kerbside. I got some for my partner, some for myself and some for the little people in my life. What a score. My nephew is into the Ripley‘s and my partner loves Hemingway.
Enjoying this on this long weekend. I scored it in a book swap Sunday morning. Spring lamb roast fresh from my sister‘s farm in the oven for tonight‘s dinner but right now I am in the bath with a glass of red. Some Ted Lasso later. Hot day predicted tomorrow so I envisage more beach reading and leftover lamb pie for dinner as I am on school holidays!