Judy Evans

@JudyEv (385412)

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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Tomato products wrongly labelled

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 20h

One of our TV programmes is Four Corners which investigates all sorts of topics. One of the latest has seen them forensically testing dozens of tomato products which are claimed to be from Australia but have been 98% proven to be...

misleading labelling

forensic testing

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Sending reptiles through the post

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Jul

On the news today is the story of a man fined $31,000 for attempting to smuggle 65 reptiles through the post. He trapped the lizards in Western Australia and mailed them to New South Wales. Unfortunately, all but ten either died...

western australia

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Shake hands and play again later

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Jul

Our son is visiting from Ireland and came home the other day with a variation on the board game, Qwirkle. This one is called Qwirkle Flex. We’ve played it a couple of times. He enjoys board games and we’ve played Catan, Flamme...

western australia

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Puppy nappies not needed

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Jul

I wrote about my brother-in-law and his wife getting a new cavoodle puppy. My sister-in-law said they’d bought a bed, collar, lead and other bits and pieces including puppy nappies. I’d never heard of such a thing. They were a bit...

western australia

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My brother-in-law is getting a new puppy

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Jul

We spent a night at Vince’s brother’s place. This is the older brother that lives in Bunbury. A few years ago, he and his wife lost a 50+ daughter in Luxor to cancer and they have both aged a lot. It was good to see them and we...

western australia

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A new Qwirkle game

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Jul

I haven’t been on for a day or two and I won’t be able to go back over all the discussions but I’ll do my best to catch up with all the news. Our son is over from Ireland and we spent the night at Vince’s older brother’s place...

western australia

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Going round and round endlessly

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Jul

I am calling the ‘knot’ in the photo an example of an ‘endless knot’. The endless knot is a sacred symbol with deep roots in Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism and Chinese culture. The photo is of a mat that was on the training sailing...

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We came second at the quiz night - second last, that is

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Jul

On Saturday, Vince and I went to a quiz night at the clubhouse. We hadn’t intended to go but our friends had double-booked themselves so we said we’d go in their place. Vince always takes photos of the people at the tables and...

western australia

retirement village

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Do you have a taste for beer?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Jul

After we finished viewing the sailing ship Leeuwin, we stopped at the Gage Roads café. Gage Roads is the name given to the area outside Fremantle Port where ships wait to enter the harbour. Rather than order a coffee, Vince...

western australia

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More about the sailing ship Leeuwin

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Jul

Here is another photo from the training sailing ship, Leeuwin. Leeuwin is Dutch for lioness and it’s an 1850’s style barquentine rigging with three masts. The foremast is square-rigged if that mean anything to you. It was built...

western australia

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Food waste must be comminuted - say what???

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Jul

The photo is another from the training sailing ship Leeuwin which is docked in Fremantle Harbour in Western Australia. In the kitchen was a notice regarding the disposal of various waste materials. The rules apply only when the...

western australia

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Touring a sailing ship

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Jul

Yesterday the training sail ship, Leeuwin, was open to the public so we went to Fremantle to have a look. It isn’t a replica but was designed as a training ship. There does seem to be an awful lot of ropes. I imagine it would take...

western australia

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Meeting fellow Australians

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Jul

When we were travelling by motor-home in Europe, we had a map of Australia on the back window and we did what we could to let people know that we were from Australia and not from England. While we were high in the mountains...

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Too slow for the cyclist

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Jul

Now that Scott (@teamfreak) has come back to us, we’re seeing a few discussions featuring push-bikes. When we were in our motor-home somewhere in the Pyrenees, a professional-looking cyclist pulled in behind us as we inched our...

switchback roads

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Man versus bear

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Jul

Last week, four women in Australia met their deaths through domestic violence – four women in one week. The photo shows a artwork created by a girl in Year 12 so 16-17 years old. The accompanying blurb says that a woman dies from...

domestic violence

man versus bear

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Free veterinary care in Luxor, Egypt

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Jul

Occasionally in discussions I’ve mentioned ACE (Animal Care in Egypt). ACE was started by two English women who were visiting Luxor and found the conditions of working animals very confronting. Julie Wartenberg and her niece,...

veterinary hospital

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The once-impressive building looks out of place now

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Jul

The photo was taken from the grounds of the art gallery in Perth, Western Australia. I haven’t researched it but it’s obviously a heritage building which is dwarfed by the much bigger buildings around it. Maybe the building to...

western australia

heritage buildings

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The Caller

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Jul

We visited the art gallery in Perth, Western Australia, just a few days ago. As you approach the gallery, there is a bronze sculpture on the rooftop walk area. The figure of a robed man with his hands cupped around his mouth was...

western australia

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Clock other way going

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Jul

The photo has nothing to do with the discussion. I took it in the Art Gallery There have been several posts lately about clocks and watches. We had what we called an ‘Irish’ clock once. The numbers went anti-clockwise. After a...

western australia

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A Luxor cat finds his own home

Judy Evans @JudyEv (385412) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jul

When we were in Luxor, Egypt several decades ago, we visited the veterinary hospital there, which is run by the British charity, Animal Care in Egypt (ACE). Animals in Luxor mostly have a terrible life and my heart bled for the...

veterinary hospital

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