Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382312)

Rockingham, Australia

Joined myLot 11 years ago

Hi there. My husband, Vince, and I live in a gated lifestyle village in Western Australia. One adult son lives in Melbourne, Victoria and the other in Ireland.

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A film revived a memory

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 11h

We’ve had some wet and miserable days here and one afternoon I switched on the TV and the film The Ideal Palace was playing. We visited the Ideal Palace when we were touring France in our motor-home in 2017. I wrote about it at...

ferdinand cheval

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Soup Night at the clubhouse

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Jun

Tonight is Soup Night at the clubhouse. Various residents have made the soups and will be paid for the ingredients. There will be six or eight different soups and a lot of different crusty breads to choose from. I could make a...

western australia

retirement village

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Have you ever marcelled your hair?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Jun

I’m reading a book set in South Africa in the early 1900s. It’s set on an ostrich farm so watch this space for a discussion on how ostrich feathers are harvested. However, I’ve come across the word ‘marcelled’ in...

western australia

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Number 2 bank account

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Jun

Vince’s first job was in a Bank of New South Wales, and at one point, he and two others were sent to Ravensthorpe to open a branch there. He wanted to have the first account so his bankbook would show No. 000001. The...

western australia

bank of new south wales

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Someone else will have to throw this out

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Jun

I’ve been going through some plastic tubs and checking for more things to donate. I won’t be donating this but I’m also not allowed to throw it out. It’s a jumper from when we were part-owners of a machinery business called Ramac,...

western australia

ravensthorpe machinery

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The Swiss roll that wasn’t

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Jun

Yesterday evening, a couple from the village visited. Vince decided to make a cake in their honour and decided on a Swiss roll. It was his first attempt but, although he followed all the instructions, when he unrolled it to add...

western australia

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Boats without sailors

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Jun

Probably it’s not news that Iran shot down an American Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter recently. The two airmen were rescued. After floating for about two hours, the men were picked up by a boat then hoisted to a helicopter....

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Geriatric penguins living the good life

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Jun

I found a feel-good story today about the New England Aquarium in Boston. They’ve installed a fenced-off area for seven elderly African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) away from the more noisy, active younger ones. Birds in...

new england aquarium

african penguins

ageing penguins

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Noises in the ceiling - not my ceiling, thankfully

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Jun

Hitting the news last night was a story of a squatter who remained hidden in the roof-space of an Adelaide grandmother. The pensioner had been hearing noises for some months but thought she had possums in the ceiling. However,...

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Show-casing my friends' roses

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jun

I wrote about Vince having to give a talk about photographing roses. While we were at our friend’s place, I took my own photos of their roses. When they had a 5-acre property near us, they had well over 100 roses and on their...

western australia

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Do you listen to classical music?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jun

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) holds a radio poll each year to determine the top 100 classical music pieces. The theme this year was The Classic 100: Greatest of All Time. Listeners send in their votes and there...

australian broadcasting corporation

classical music

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Photographing roses

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jun

Vince has been asked to judge a photo competition at the West Australian (WA) Rose Championships. The photo competition is only a very small part of the show which is the highlight of the WA Rose Society. Before the show is...

western australia

photographing roses

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Are you a twitcher?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Jun

Twitchers are those who like watching birds. West Australian twitchers, and others, are all a-flutter because a black-headed gull has taken up residence in Geraldton with a number of silver seagulls. The black-headed gulls are...

western australia

black headed gull

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A piece about punnets

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Jun

I mentioned to several members of myLot that I’d bought some punnets of seedlings. It seems ‘punnet’ isn’t a common word in some countries so here is a photo of the punnets I bought. They come in several different sizes and may...

western australia

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Do you know anything about peptides?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 7 Jun

The photo shows another of the woodworking items being displayed in the clubhouse. I seem to be on a health kick today. I don’t have much to do with teenagers and young adults so I don’t know how common it is for this age group...

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Do you believe in vaccinations for children?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 7 Jun

The photo shows another of the woodworking items being displayed in the clubhouse. Falling vaccination rates have allowed measles, whooping cough and diphtheria to resurface as major health concerns. One Australian paediatrician...

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A Basilica in Barcelona

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Jun

Our friends are in Spain on a trip which includes a cruise. They were a bit worried about the journey as they had to fly to Dubai then on to Barcelona. However, they are safely on their cruise ship now. One of the main attractions...

la sagrada familia

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June 5 - Memories from over the years

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Jun

Vince’s Facebook account came up with ‘where we were on this day’ and it seems that June 5 has a few reasons for being memorable. On June 5, 2017, we were spectators at the Tattersalls International Horse Trials held at...

western australia

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Peregrine-like birds now protecting crops

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Jun

Drones have their uses, both good and bad. Many films now seem to have drone footage and we all know about the lethal drones being used in the Iranian war. A feel-good story I heard concerned drones being built to look like...

crop protection

rainbow lorikeets

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Another island freed of feral cats

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Jun

The photo is another one from the display which is in our clubhouse. It has nothing to do with the discussion. North-east of Tasmania, in Bass Strait, lies the Furneaux Group of islands, one of which is Little Dog Island. It has...

little dog island

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