Winter Wattle in flower – Katoomba

Cootamundra Wattle (Acacia baileyana) snipped by Sulphur crested cockatoos!


Old Stanley Palm Plane – very useful for small jobs


Corner view at Orama Lane

Breakfast at Orama Lane - Katoomba

Friend Susan’s chook egg – Poached and placed on buttery Homany’s toasted wholemeal sourdough – so delicious!

Harbour walk - Potts Point to the Botanic Gardens – Sydney 01-07-2013

  
 
  




Queensland Bottle Tree (Brachychiton rupestris)
The starchy roots and seeds are edible.

Henry Moore – Reclining figure : Angles


Bubble magic

Winter Magic – Katoomba NSW 22nd June 2013

 
Home made Anzacs – Jen’s recipe

World Refugee Day

 

All over this world, People want to live in peace – The manufacture and selling of arms must cease!

www.unrefugees.org.au/world-refugee-day

Exotics at Orama Lane – Katoomba NSW

Azaleas

Rambler rose

Our Rights at Work are not, just red tape! – UK

 

We’re going to hear a lot about Europe from the Tories this year.
Cameron wants a referendum… his backbenchers want one sooner… and they all want to “re-negotiate, re-negotiate, re-negotiate".
But when they talk about negotiating in Europe to cut red tape, and bring powers back to the UK, what do they mean?

Below are just some of the rights at work that are guaranteed by European Law –
All these rights and more could be at risk if Cameron gets his way.




 http://www.unionstogether.org.uk

Light & Shadow at Orama Lane - Katoomba

 

Early morning light on the Birds Nest Fern
(Asplenium australasicum)

The original stained glass window

Bush walk to Echo Point – Katoomba NSW

Mallow and bee

Early morning mist viewed from Carrington Park



Pea Flower (Dillwynia elegans)

Mountain Devil (Lambertia formosa)

Overlooking The Three Sisters

A child’s baby rabbit carried in a basket to Echo Point !

Majestic view from Echo Point !

Thousands march to fight cuts to London Hospitals – 18th May 2013

Photo by Paul Davey – Demotix

Thousands of Londoners gathered to march from Waterloo to Downing street in protest against cuts to NHS hospital services and privatisation of essential medical services.

This demonstration was called by an unprecedented coalition of London residents, medical staff, trade unions and health campaigners who have come together to raise the alarm regarding the biggest threats to A & E’s, maternity units and in-hospital care for a generation.

Professor Simon Shorvon, a neurologist, attacked the decision to close four west London A&E departments. He said: "It will leave a huge swathe of residents far from a local casualty.

"Time matters in an emergency situation and being stuck in an ambulance after a coronary or stroke or life-threatening accident will play havoc with survival and recovery rates."

Closures planned across the capital include nine accident and emergency departments, a number of maternity units and thousands of hospital beds.

Blue Mountains National Park - bush walk Katoomba to Leura Falls

Fossil Rocks Lookout

Leura Falls

Hairpin Banksia (Banksia spinulosa)

Bridal Veil Lookout – part view only !