Judy Evans

@JudyEv (355950)

Rockingham, Australia

Joined myLot 10 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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Teapot pigs are not real

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 11h

It’s amazing sometimes how humans want to fiddle with nature. I’m talking about domestic animals. A certain trait becomes popular and breeders focus on that rather than on breeding a strong, healthy animal. ‘Miniature’ animal...

miniature creatures

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Another funny sign

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 20h

From time to time, many of us have put up photos of funny signs. Vince took this photo today of a sign in our retirement village. You can’t come into the village through this gate. You can only go out so what is the point of the...

western australia

lifestyle village

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The Big Brother Movement celebrates its centenary

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jun

Another nice story I read this morning concerned the centenary celebration of an organisation called the Big Brother Movement (BBM). Between 1925 and 1982, 15,000 boys from the United Kingdom migrated voluntarily to Australia....

big brother movement

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little brothers

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Tasmania and its 177 nationalities

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jun

When I go to my computer in the morning, I check my emails, log into myLot, check a couple of Facebook sites and open ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) news. Today, I struck gold, or copper anyway, with two feel-good...

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No more leaks in the motor-home

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jun

The photo has nothing to do with the post. It was taken at my brother-in-law’s place. It’s Black Friday, as in Friday 13th, but I haven’t seen notices of sales or any public announcements about it. We picked up the motor-home...

western australia

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Marley, a Bunbury icon passes

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Jun

One of the local news items today reported the death of Marley, a cream dingo which had made his home in the Bunbury boat harbour area. As a tiny puppy, Marley had been picked up in the Pilbara, West Australia’s far north by a...

western australia

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Cats' pyjamas, ants' pants and bees' knees

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Jun

The photo is of the alpacas at the B&B where we stayed last Saturday. Nothing to do with the discussion although alpacas always look like they’re wearing pyjamas. There are often discussions here about various sayings and how...

western australia

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What's under the cover?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Jun

Under this cover is our motor-home. We used to put our caravan under a lean-to at our friend’s place but the motor-home is too high. So we bought a cover for it and had no end of trouble getting it on several weeks ago. We ended...

western australia

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These look out of place

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Jun

We stayed at a B&B on Saturday night and I took this photo of a tree that was in the yard. I don’t know what sort of tree it was although it didn’t look like anything exotic. However, the patch of leaves you see was very...

western australia

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Have you heard of the pub test?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jun

The photo is of the goat at our B&B. There isn’t much to say about it so it gets its 10 seconds of fame here. Do your newspapers ever talk about ‘the pub test’? ‘Pub’ is short for ‘public house’ or ‘hotel’ and the word is very...

western australia

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The things you find in bins

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jun

When we travel south from Perth, Western Australia, on the freeway, there is an area where there are toilets and picnic areas so drivers can take a break and stretch their legs. On our last trip south, rangers had pulled in to...

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Ponies at our cottage

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jun

We stayed in a cabin on Saturday night. The lady had turned on the air-conditioning for us which was nice of her. The bed had an electric blanket too so we were warm and cosy. There were alpacas in the paddock straight out from...

western australia

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Gnomesville revisited

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Jun

Yesterday, we drove through Gnomesville to get to where we were going. We had a bit of time to spare so we stopped and had a wander. For anyone who hasn’t read my previous posts about Gnomesville, it’s a collection of gnomes...

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tourist attraction

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I won't be around today

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Jun

Tonight, we’ll be staying in a cabin near our old home town and attending a memorial service for a friend. The co-owner was a member of our local writing group, and possibly still is. In 2019, he won the Wilbur Smith award for...

western australia

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Attending a memorial service tomorrow

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Jun

If I can find something to write about, I’ll be here tomorrow but we’re leaving around lunchtime to attend a memorial service for a friend. You might remember I wrote about an endurance rider who fell from his horse during a...

western australia

memorial service

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Ladie's Movie day today

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Jun

The photo is of a little lizard I spotted at our house-sit. Doesn't he have a long tail? I wonder if he curls it round his nose when he sleeps, like a cat does. We have a busy time next week but today I’m going to the clubhouse...

western australia

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Believe it or not, these hold the same amount

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Jun

You can see a small jar and an empty packet in the photo. I should have stood the packet up so you could see it better. Both the packet and the jar contain the same amount, which surprised me as the packet looked much smaller....

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Devastating news for a family in England

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 4 Jun

There was a terrible tragedy in our capital just a few days ago. A 24-year-old girl and her friend, on holiday from England, spent an afternoon drinking before deciding to go for a ride on an e-scooter. They ran into a...

western australia

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Dominic and Finbar are happy cats now

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 4 Jun

Our niece sent us this photo of the cats we looked after while they were away. The tuxedo is Dominic and the grey-and-white is Finbar. You can see how relaxed and happy the cats are now that we’ve gone and their own humans have...

western australia

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Hanging by a thread

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355950) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Jun

While staying at our niece’s house, I saw this leaf literally hanging by a thread. I called Vince thinking he might like a photo of it and this is it. It looked like it was suspended in mid-air. Of course, it’s been caught by a...

western australia

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