Dinosaurs and all sorts of stuff!

We went to the Jurassic World exhibition at the Melbourne Museum on Tuesday. The dinosaurs came to life as we walked through Jurassic Park - the fiercesome T-Rex and his scaly associates! It was quite scary stuff in places, and mind-bending in others. We were able to touch the femur (photo 2) of a creature that walked the planet 70 million years ago. And it's not every day of the week you get to do that!

We had a wander around the rest of the museum too. I should have made a note of what the birds are, but I was more interested in the shadows!

Since my last visit to the museum they have installed a new exhibit replicating a four room weatherboard cottage, originally built in 1858 in a rough area of Melbourne called Little Lon. It was home to three generations of the Hayes family, immigrants from Ireland.

Out into the sunshine, and in a side street off Brunswick Street, a more recently built home - a little Victorian villa. This one is rather grandly named Osborne House (could that be after Queen Victoria's home on the Isle of Wight!).

More graffiti,

and the weird and wonderful seed pod of Araujia hortorum, moth vine.

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In a vase on Monday - colour

The intense colours in my vase this week come from nasturtiums, sweetpeas and a single glorious zinnia! Their beauty and love of life speak for themselves and need no further words from me! Enjoy!

Coastal walk from Gullane to North Berwick

By the time I have walked about four miles, my toes are screaming at me - it's the arthritis, you see. One of the joys of being that little bit older than I was. However, for a long time, I have been keen to walk along the beaches, and follow the coastal path, between Gullane and North Berwick. So, having worked out the tide times, I decided today was the day, and off we went. Below is our starting point, the bay at Gullane. It's a lovely beach, very popular with dog walkers. This is looking east, the direction Tilly and I were going to take. Looking back, up the Forth, the unmistakable bulk of Arthur's Seat, and Edinburgh's skyline, just clear enough to see. For most of the walk, there is the choice between wandering along a series of beaches, or following a path along the top of each. There's no denying it, at heart I am a shell-seeker. I have loads of shells at home. We lived on one of the out islands in the Bahamas for a just over a year, ...

Possibly the last post and a sizzlingly hot vase on Monday

The border in our tiny garden is in an in-between phase at the moment and not very colourful, but elsewhere there are pops of high summer colour and I have brought them together in my vase today. The running wave uses Blogger as it's vehicle and they are changing the way a post is created but unfortunately I cannot make the new format work. I can't progress beyond the title! I cannot navigate to the main body of the post to create text. The new template has no prompts for adding photos, weblinks, to format the text, change font etc. It may be my old MacBook that's as fault but I can't do anything about that!! Are any other IAVOM bloggers who use Blogger having the same problems? I have tried, three times, to contact Blogger through their 'Help' prompt and received no feedback or contact whatsoever. This post is using the old 'Legacy' format, which no longer permits any kind of formatting of text, and so after four attempts I have finally manage...

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