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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Busy day at the show in perfect weather. All good, except some bastard stole his folding chair! Anyway I'm not much into cars but this ancient Datsun is cute...

Old blue and white Datsun ute on a truck tray. Japanese numberplate says Made In Japan.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

At the #SIEVX 25th memorial ceremony in Weston Park CBR. .. 353 refugees drowned 25 years ago, en route to Australia. Good roll up. Here's the choir opening the gig with a lovely but sad bespoke song. We're sitting within the 350 memorial poles which form […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Sunny day view of a choir singing, with trees the lake in the background.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Koshary, @timrichards !! At the Egyptian embassy. Delicious!

Two trays of Koshary (lentils, pasta, rice, chickpeas, onions) and a tray of spicy meat pastries... being served to attendees.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Demo in Civic for the third anniversary of the genocide in Gaza. There's at least 20 cops hanging around: what are they expecting we'll do?? FFS. #FreePalestine

Lotsa folk in a sunny and shady town square. Many Palestinian flags and signs. Cops dotted around the edges: why??

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@frogglin Look what I found in my weekly check of the mail box, lol! Busted the 5 metres per day average speed too. Who gets real letters in the snail mail these days? Meeeeeee!!! And yes, masto is full of fabulous humans. Xx

Postcard in red and white and blue: "World Postcard Day 2026"

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Male green and gold bell frog, looking as healthy as could be, yay!! So the saunas and salt baths are keeping the chytrid fungus at bay down at the Mawson Ponds (our landcare site). We* found a girl too, she was yuuuge and very healthy. * Three very clever […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Smallish green and grey frog in a gloved hand, in torch light.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

[Food, meaty] Verdict: delicious!! Very easy, just takes about 3 hours to cook. I'd put the okra in a bit later next time, it's gone a bit mooshy. persianmama.com/abgoosht-persian-sh…

Looking down on a casserole dish on a stove. It contains the finished product, ie lamb and various veg with chickpeas and spices.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Woden 'drain', behind Callum Offices. Newly painted graffiti wall (last weekend). Second longest graffiti wall in the Southern hemisphere... so where is the longest?

Looking down the length of the drain, graffiti on wall for a fast as the eye can see, brutalist Callum offices looming over it in distance.

Graffiti on drain wall, a small fire escape stairway rising up behind

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Jerrabomberra Wetlands #volunteering day. It's three hours every month and I'm beginning to think it's a little too much for the arthritic hands and feet. But how's this for a morning tea vista?

Sunny day riverside grassy floodplain, many shrubs with tree guards being maintained by volunteers. Massive old dead tree on the right, blue sky, a wispy cloud.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Courtyard looking its best after daughter's makeover. Ready to party...

Entrance way with red door and lotsa pot plants

Courtyard with potplants, a succulent garden, table and chairs, BBQ, a cockatoo sculpture on the wall.

Other side of courtyard with water feature.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

The last thing you need when you have ppl coming for lunch is for the cat to go missing and then show up, stuck in a bloody drain, bleating. My arms weren't long enough so himself had to retrieve... there was blood. Sheesh, Leo... 😡

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Making coconut and pandan ice cream, an experiment. Friends coming to lunch on Tuesday. 🤞

A saucepan on the stove with can and coconut heating. Coped pandan leaves will be removed before cooling the custard. There is also a mixing bowl with eggs and sugar whipped together.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

We're off to this today. My gym instructor is selling her home made baklava !! #Canberra

Spring Festival at the Canberra Islamic Festival in Monash. Today from 10am. There will be food!!

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

'Relics' at CMAG has to be seen to be believed. All recycled junk.; a LOT of lego.

An old, rotting jetski on which is mounted several beach scenes, mainly in lego

An old bookcase and an old desk, with several bits of of scientific equupment surrounded by museum scenes, mostly in lego.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

[Child abuse] Himself is reorganising/culling our ridiculous book collection, much of which was our parents'. I think this was one of Dad's (he was a fan, but died in 2012).... Himself: "Which category should this go in... Children's? Culture?.. Or???" Me: "Paedophilia?"

Hard cover book entitled Kids of The World, introduced by Rolf Harris, with pics of children of various nationalities.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

A wonderful funeral was had for a wonderful woman, many tears and lots of laughs. Six of the nine great grand children were there, including our girls (they all drew pictures and wrote messages on them). Handing round the mic at the wake was hilarious, she […] [Original post on toot.community]

Six children aged 5 to 9, on a seat, smiling broadly. Boys at either end in matching outfits, 4 girls in the middle in matching dresses, our 2 in the middle.

A smiling grand daughter next to a window covered in children's drawings and messages.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Ohmyverygawd I just found this in the unpacking, a mini from our Bundaberg distillery tour. I'm a sucker for fake pineapple flavour... it's KRYPTONITE!! 👌🎉🥳

A small tasting bottle of Bundaberg Spicy Pineapple flavoured rum, on a kitchen bench.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Goondiwindi innit. It's in Quuensland but you can holler over the river to 'New South', as they call it here.

Very art deco town hall with clock tower, at dusk. Palm tree on left. The doorway of the hall has decorative lights over the entrance.

Two old concrete water towers at night, lit up in many colours.

Old 2 storey timber Queenslander pub at dusk: "The Victoria".

Heritage listed (1902) bridge over a river in the bush (lots of trees). It has a double curved metal shape and very long pylons into the river.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Sitting at the Lightning Ridge sunset lookout. I was here in the early 60s, don't remember much but I remember the place was just a buncha dirt roads with humpies and mullock heaps; we'd driven on dirt roads in the rain to get here, sliding all over the […] [Original post on toot.community]

Sunset view across a stone labyrinth, very flat scrubby plain in the distance, a small tree and a ghost tree on the left.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

This is why we need to preserve old trees: nesting hollows! #StGeorge #Queensland

Pink and grey galah sitting atop a tree hollow (where a branch has fallen off) in the fork of a large eucalypt. Beautiful smooth pale grey tree trunk and branches.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Mitchell, Qld... (we've just been through Roma which was delightful, except for LittleToBeProudOf's mug everywhere).

Huge bottle tree outside an old 'Queenslander' pub.

Schooie of XXXX on a table in a beer garden

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Lotta kookas here in country Queensland. Lotta cookers too, but let's not discuss that. 😬

Cheeky kookaburra in the camp kitchen, waiting for scraps.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

15km hike through the magnificent Carnarvon Gorge. Wow...

This is called The Moss Garden. A shady, moist, ferny little gully deep within the gorge, a little waterfall and some palm trees.

The steps up to a limestone amphitheatre. Massive rockface, palms, some ladders, and a bit of blue sky just visible.

The Art Gallery: Aboriginal rock art on a huge stone wall of the gorge, dappled sunlight.

Looking up at a limestone wall on one side of the gorge, early morning sunlight, some trees below.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Bundaberg water tank, just waiting for Grand Designs to show up (albeit not a bloody barn). Pic from moving car...

Brick water tank tower with metal tank on top. The brick has many storeys with faux archways.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

In a lovely camp site about 15 mins south of the township of 1770, big bush block belonging to a young couple. Quite a few campers: park wherever you like, basic amenities. Very peaceful, except some dickhead has Slim Dusty's greatest hits blaring .. FFS.

Tranquil bush sunset scene with a few caravans, grassy areas, a small corrugated iron amenities block. Looks peaceful, doesn't sound peaceful.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Well, Gladstone was a pleasant surprise. Heavy industry everywhere (I love it!), lovely little hilly CBD, great art gallery, wharves, water, islands, Very Big Ships, massive silos, power plants.... I was agog. Had to check out the aluminium smelter where all […] [Original post on toot.community]

A harbour with a huge coal bulk carrier at a wharf, a smaller boat whizzing along, blue sky

Gorgeous interior of the 1934 town hall which is now the at gallery. Lovely timber doorways and decorative features, patterned wall paper, old light fittings, polished wood floors.

The old The Grand pub on a CBD corner in a colonial Victorian style with lovely verandahs and a little observation folly on the roof.

Long distance view from a hill of an aluminium smelter, smoke billowing, water in distance and strip of land in the far distance

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Oh no... poor arthritic taps. 😵‍💫

Sign in camping grounds showers:
ARTHRITIC TAPS IN THIS CUBICLE.
PLEASE TURN HOT TAP LEFT <- COLD TAP RIGHT ->

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Day trip tp Yeppoon, which used to be quite lovely but which I fear has now turned into a mini Gold Coast. We went to get some groceries yesterday and the drive through Rocky's CBD was rather lovely: lots of old historic buildings and shady trees. Also checked […] [Original post on toot.community]

Massive art deco red brick building, pressed metal portico, shrubberies, a small brick entrance thingy in foreground: 'CITY HALL'.

Side view, lots of palms and council cars obstructing the view.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Mackay: windscreen done, yay. Art Gallery ✅️ Botanic Gardens ✅️ Bit of architecture ✅️

Vincent Namatjira seeks portrait with Albert.

Yarn bombed rock outside art gallery. Sunny day

Crimson Hoya in flower in the Bot Gards.

Ficus Religiosa: massive old tropical fig in the Bot Gards.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Early to the free camp behind The Leap Hotel, to beat the rush. Right on the highway but I have earplugs. We leave at dawn for a 7.30am windscreen appt in Mackay (20kms). Meanwhile, a beer and a counter-y.

Verandah of a very rustic old pub made of peeling corrugated iron, ppl sitting on bar stools, a bit of old signage. Sound effects consist of a lot of 'fuckens'.

A plate of pub style fish n chips with veg and tartare sauce, plus a beer. We are sitting outside facing parked cars but the weather is glorious.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Townsville was a lot nicer than expected, particularly the very brutal 1974 law courts. Many imposing old buildings still intact in the CBD and aid the waterfront.

A corner of a large flat roofed 3 storey cubic building in concrete, with interesting design details. (Law Courts.)

View along side verandah: concrete waffle ceiling with similar small square concrete windows along the entire wall

Close up of the concrete geometric design

View over Townsville, the coastline, and Magnetic Island on a sunny day from Castle Hill.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Townsville: surpisingly attractive. Cheek by jowl with the unpowered crowd in a beachside caravan park, whipped up a TVP chilli 'con carne' (in 20 mins) with wholemeal pasta, cheese and avocado. Yummo! 👌

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

A 5.7km long jetty in Lucinda, North Qld. Conveyer belt for raw sugar, there's also a roadway on it for staff, eeeek!! Bonkers. Hinchinbrook Island in the background.

A long jetty disappearing into the distance, barely visible wharf at the end. Cloudy day

The other (loading) end, with wharehousing. Partially clouded island behind. Beach in front.

Sunny view of Hinchinbrook Island over dense rainforest. Blue sky day (yesterday).

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

I'm endlessly fascinated with these hard core 'living on the road' grey nomads' massive rigs. These 2 have a house on wheels and they tow a little car (for popping down to the shops 🤣). Imagine the fuel costs, but I guess that's all part of the lifestyle if […] [Original post on toot.community]

A large, luxury bus/motorhome. Where the underneath luggage would normally go there is a washer (it was washing as we speak) and a dryer. An awning covers the laundry. There's a small trailer attached behind but the car is not on it.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Innisfail, pop about $10,000, seems to have a substantial Indian population, with 2 Indian restaurants and an Indian grocery. We've seen a lot of Sikhs/Panjabis around town. Anyhooo, we're eating out tonight and this joint is doing a roaring trade, unsurprisingly! 👌... ping @LifeTimeCooking

Amritsari Fish with a green yoghurt sauce, manchurian veg balls.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Innisfail: who knew? An art deco wonderland, after the 1918 cyclone.

Shire Hall. Huge yellow and brown at deco construction with lead lights and verandahs

Interior of Shire hall foyer, at deco gorgeousness with lovely floor tiles, a beautiful box office, light fittings etc

Streetscape with many art deco upper storeys of different designs and colours.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Cairns. Art galleries mostly, including the Mulgrave wing of the Cairns Art Gallery, in the old council chambers (why did they need a vault??).

Huge banyan tree, small palms are in front

Aboriginal baskets strung together in an escher fashion, on orange background

Old vault door (Mind Your Head) with art inside

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Sheesh, Cape Tribulation. Quite the business to get to, and then the rest of the world is there. I'd rather be in Biloela! Anyhooo, this is where Capt Cook reckons all his troubles started (and not just yours, mate!). Slightly related: none of his 6 offspring […] [Original post on toot.community]

Substantial Cape on a sunny day, waves, a few pl, unspoiled bush.

A very wide river (the Daintree) taken from a vehicular ferry. Scrub on either side. There be crocs!

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Jeez Louise, the (trade)winds in Cooktown are epic. Got blown off my feet, literally, at the lookout and nearly knocked over an old bloke. Anyway, this was the view...

Sunny day view of a vast river estuary with lush foliage in the foreground. Mountains iv the far distance.

Sunny day view of a long unspoiled beach in the distance, mountains beyond, lush foliage in foreground.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Old Laura homestead, near Laura, #CapeYork. Nice little 4wd river crossing to get there (not pictured), but we chickened out on a deeper one nearby coz (possible) crocs prevented a walk through.🐊 ALT: very old slab/post and corrugated iron ruins of a […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Beer garden at our pub's camping ground at tiny Laura, #CapeYork. Noice. 🍺 Also: cows this arvo at Musgrove Roadhouse.

Shady beer garden/verandah. Huge old shady trees and camping beyond. Himself with his back to us, sucking on a zero alcohol.

Buncha brahmans under a shady tree. Lotta dust.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

In Weipa today. Spent some time at the Aboriginal Cultural Centre, found the shopping Centre (a small air conditioned complex which looks like an old warehouse from the outside!) and now we're off to Mapoon, an hour's drive north. The indigenous inhabitants of […] [Original post on toot.community]

View across a green sunny lawn to a very wide bay. A few boats. This is the view from the Cultural Centre.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Approaching Weipa, yay! We thought we had over 8 hours of driving to get there, so left before dawn... but we found a short cut! Sunrise just south of Bamaga was gorgeous, so we stopped to take it in and make coffee. #CapeYork

Tropical savannah/scrub iv the early morning light, it smells divine.

Typical view of the dirt roads on the Cape, in the early morning light.

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Thursday Island! Two hours on this boat first. 🎉

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

We got to the tip. No, not the rubbish tip. Crowds were bonkers, had to queue for the pics. #CapeYork

Himself, perched on the most northern bit of continental Australia, ie a bit of coastal rock, blue water and some islands behind.

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