Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
Rockingham, Australia
Joined myLot 9 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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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
15h
Single-use plastic takeaway dishes have been phased out in Western Australia and in the photo you can see what is being used instead of plastic.
I know some of the plates and containers that you can buy nowadays are made of...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Jul
My friend told me the other day that she is chopping up banana skins, putting them in a container of water then each week pouring the water and/or the scraps onto her plants. She believes the plants are doing better since she has...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Jul
I came across this title in an article I read recently. It seems there are very few first-hand accounts from any of the millions of men, women and children who were enslaved in America in times gone by. In most states, slaves were...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Jul
Someone mentioned on my post about a barista in Tom Price that it was an unusual name for a town. Tom Price is actually the name of the town, the mine and the mountain. They are all named after Thomas Moore Price (1891-1962) who...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Jul
My last post was about a barista’s guide to mental health. One of his suggestions was ‘stay calm and drink coffee’. @Ronrybs said his would be ‘stay calm and drink tea’ which brought back a few memories for me.
Growing up on a...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jul
Tom Price is a mining town in Western Australia and the day starts early as everyone heads off to the various mine sites. Before catching their flights or buses, they often pick up a coffee from a coffee van run by barista Ted...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jul
Although decades old, a bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii) known as the ‘Jesmond roundabout tree’ was cut down in 2023 to make way for an $481 million inner city bypass in suburban Newcastle, New South Wales. Growth rings put the...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jul
A prominent Perth architect, Ralph Drexel, died in February this year. He left his toy car collection to his two granddaughters with the instruction that, if they were to sell the cars, the money should go to their children. The...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jul
I live in a lifestyle village which has been built over the last few years. I’m not sure how many a ‘few’ is but we’ve been here three years so maybe the first houses were built 5 or 6 years ago. Since we arrived, and IGA has been...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jul
I’ve written before about cane toads which are spreading across northern Australia after being introduced in 1935 to prey on beetles that were infesting sugar-cane crops. Since their introduction into Queensland, they have...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jul
Australia’s nearest neighbour is Indonesia with its hundreds of resorts and hotels. Prices are cheap; air-fares relatively so compared to Europe and cashed-up Australian men find it easy to pay for sexual favours. Some might set...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jul
It’s 3.20 am here. I went to bed about 11pm but was still awake at 1am so I got up and came to join the northern hemisphere myLot community for a while. Vince got up too but has just gone back to bed. I might post this then have...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul
We have stayed in touch for quite a few years with a couch-surfer friend. She stayed in Donnybrook at a hostel so she’d have transport to the various orchards where she was working but she came to stay with us at weekends.
She...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul
It’s 8.40 am in my part of the world. Vince has gone off to have some tests. He has to drink some radioactive stuff and is joking that he’ll glow in the dark when he comes home. I’ll let you know if that’s the case.
He has to...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul
The photo was taken in Tasmania, as close as we got to New Zealand.
The first ever complete specimen of a rare spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii) has washed up near the small fishing town of Taieri Mouth on the South...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Jul
The photo of one of our wildflowers has nothing to do with the discussion.
I’ve just read that Torvill and Dean are touring Australia next year. Jayne Torvill (1957-) and Christopher Dean (1958-) are British ice-skating...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jul
I’m not often up this early so I seldom catch the beautiful sunrises that people sometimes mention to me.
However, I opened the blind today to a stunning pink and blue sky. Vince is still in bed and I won’t wake him to see it so...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jul
It’s 5.00 am here in Western Australia and I seem to have been awake most of the night. In the end, I got sick of lying there awake so I decided to get up and see what you’re all up to.
The Country and Western night was held at...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jul
I’ve been rabbiting on about a country and western night that we’re attending tonight.
I had bought a kid’s cowboy outfit at a two-dollar type store but the hat is really too small and looks a bit ridiculous. I found a hat of...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (331988)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jul
I had a hankering for ginger biscuits once and made myself some. Vince said they’d be better if they had walnuts in them so now I add walnuts. I seem to be forever making them so now I make a double lot and freeze some.
I went...
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