

PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 1 of 57 Sat 15th Mar 2014 11:38pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4239 Hi all ![]() ![]() |
Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 2 of 57 Sun 16th Mar 2014 3:46am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 Hi Philip,
What a lovely idea. I will certainly do my best for you. Here's a start for you. I live in Kalamunda, a quiet, old and very 'Federation' type of town, as it is hardly a city, in the foothills and not spoilt by high rises and still maintains its historic interests and buildings. As I live in a new villa (you would call it a bungalow) it is not on the google maps yet but shows the old garden nursery site that was once there. You know how old the google maps are. We do have our larger shopping centres, if you care to look for Midland, that is our local haunt (even shoe shops!!!). Guildford is a really old but small Australian townsite and is where my daughter and I like to browse and chat to anyone sitting at the next table, so laid back atmosphere here. It has a history of the early settlers and plenty of wineries to choose from, the Sandleford being one where they hold the open air celebrity concerts - excellent on a balmy summer night with your favourite bottle of plonk. You could zoom in on to the West Coast Highway and follow the coastal road up the west coast or even have a gander round the Perth foreshore which will be undergoing great changes very soon, for the tourists' benefit I might add. You might even see the Bell Tower also on the foreshore. If you have the time pop down to Fremantle and visit the old Roundhouse where they used to hold the prisoners off the first convict ships. I could go on but I will leave that to find out for yourself. Have a good day. ![]() |
PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 57 Sun 16th Mar 2014 10:20am Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4239 Hi Dreamtime ![]() ![]() |
Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 4 of 57 Sun 16th Mar 2014 1:35pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 Hi Philip,
Beds Plus, Captain Snooze, Beds R Us, we have them all here Philip and a McDonalds every way you turn.
Hope you enjoyed your little excursion. Do come again ![]() ![]() |
JohnnieWalker Bonny Hills, Australia All posts by this member | 5 of 57 Mon 17th Mar 2014 1:03am Member: Joined Jul 2011 Total posts:339 Hi everyone
Karan and I bought a bush block in Queanbeyan in 1985, with a lovely view across to Parliament House in Canberra.
True Blue Coventry Kid ![]() |
Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 6 of 57 Mon 17th Mar 2014 2:36am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 Thanks for the tour JW. Nice to see how the other half live. ![]() ![]() |
Robthu Coventry All posts by this member | 7 of 57 Mon 17th Mar 2014 7:04am Member: Joined Oct 2012 Total posts:116 Hi JW. It's Derek, we met at the forum breakfast when you were last here. That is one hell of a running track you've got! |
PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member Thread starter | 8 of 57 Mon 17th Mar 2014 9:11am Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4239 Hi all ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
JohnnieWalker Bonny Hills, Australia All posts by this member | 9 of 57 Mon 17th Mar 2014 7:55pm Member: Joined Jul 2011 Total posts:339 On 17th Mar 2014 7:04am, Robthu said:
Hi JW. It's Derek we met at the forum breakfast when you were last here. That is one hell of a running track you've got!
Hi Derek
Yes - one lap is always enough! It's even quite an effort to get to the first turn, and after that there is a series of steep switchback hills and gullies that turns your legs to jelly!True Blue Coventry Kid ![]() |
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JohnnieWalker Bonny Hills, Australia All posts by this member | 11 of 57 Tue 18th Mar 2014 6:35am Member: Joined Jul 2011 Total posts:339 Hi Dreamtime
For a few years I used to have the occasional company of a female runner and her dog (and occasionally her very fit marathon-runner sister), and we used to solve all the world's problems as we ran. But sadly, she moved back to England three(?) years ago, so I hardly ever see anyone now. There are a few dog-walkers that I meet sometimes, but they generally stick to the bigger tracks in the more open country. It's good to have an excuse to stop and chat!
Most days I do either an 10km loop along the river and back up through the bush or one of a variety of 6-8 loops climbing up the escarpment, along a bit and back down. I'm not quite the gazelle I used to be, so the more ambitious runs, including the big one, tend to be once or twice a year specials! I haven't got into the habit of taking a phone with me, because you can bet that the day I do I will drop the damned thing - but I sometimes think I ought to!
Here's a true story - perhaps it should go into the "Members Poems" thread -
The Scents of the Bush
I went for a run, just a few days ago, as I do every day around seven.
I find that the sights and the sounds of the bush are a fair proximation to heaven.
I’ve been running for fitness a few Ks a day, ever since just a kid at school,
And I run for an hour or so round the bush, about 8 to 10 K as a rule.
Being Sunday, there wasn’t a need to be rushed, so I thought I could run a long way,
And I set off determined to finish a loop of a hilly but nice fourteen K.
The roos and the parrots accompanied me, and the sky was agreeably blue,
Though, because of the temperature being quite low, my hands were a similar hue.
I’d run about six K, and finding it tough, but was stopped by a very strange smell.
It was quite unmistakeably cooking baked beans – an aroma I know very well.
I’m two kilometres or more from a house, and expected to see campfire smoke.
But no matter in every direction I looked - no campfire, no tent and no bloke.
I tried to imagine some other way that baked bean smells could waft through the trees.
I know all the gumtree aromas quite well, and it wasn’t remotely like these.
Could it be the result of a clumsy attempt to genetically modify beans?
An Acacia Bakedbeaniana, perhaps, - a tree that is quite rarely seen?
What else could it be but a bushman’s cuisine, with no doubt a billy of tea.
At that point in my run, a small share of these treats was a real attraction to me!
But as far as I know, roos and wombats don’t cook – I could rule them right out as the cause.
Yet the smell of baked beans was out there in the bush, and I never discovered the source/sauce.
True Blue Coventry Kid ![]() |
Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 12 of 57 Tue 18th Mar 2014 9:36am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 Well done JW, I think we have another Banjo Pattison in our midst. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mike H London Ontario, Canada All posts by this member | 13 of 57 Thu 20th Mar 2014 12:14am Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:400 Don't try this at home.
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JohnnieWalker Bonny Hills, Australia All posts by this member | 14 of 57 Thu 20th Mar 2014 11:40pm Member: Joined Jul 2011 Total posts:339 That looks like a beautiful winter's day, Mike H, and a unique piece of highway engineering! I've seen people walking their dogs and even playing ice hockey on the Danube in Vienna, but nothing quite like that. Good possibilities for ice-speedway? True Blue Coventry Kid ![]() |
Mike H London Ontario, Canada All posts by this member | 15 of 57 Thu 20th Mar 2014 11:56pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:400 Skidoos use the river for fun but nothing like ice speedway. Half way across, there is a stop sign where skidoos running up and down have to give way to traffic crossing side to side. You can't see any in the shot but there are a lot of ice fishing huts dotted over the ice a little upstream, and I doubt that ice speedway would make them very happy.
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