shades of green....!

Petty jealousy is really very boring!!!!

and not something I normally suffer from

...thank goodness!

BUT... 

a wonderfully eccentric friend 

rang tonight for a chat

and half way through the conversation said

go and check out where I have been staying!

so I did

and I could so see myself lying by the pool

enjoying a wee pre dinner drink

then settling in for the night

perhaps grabbing a good read of the shelves

and day dreaming

after lunch in the shade before another dip

or wandering through the beautiful gardens

so I suggested next time she went she had better take me!!!

                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                        all images from here

Alas....too late

 as it will probably be sold

she replied

So

 just slightly

 tinged green am I!!!!!

Goodnight

It's not home anymore....!!

This is the area

I grew up in.

A family suburb on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour

the cars parked in the driveways

were Holdens,

Fords, and the occasional Bentley.

My parents paid 14,000 pounds

for our house

it was three stories high

(if you count the attic with it's two bedrooms

and the playroom built into the slope of the block!!!!)

and it had a view straight through

the heads of the Harbour

it sold recently for over

2 million dollars

I do wish they had kept it!!!

 The homes were all a bit tired, 

the gardens often had a bike 

on it's side in the drive or

a cricket bat lying on the lawn

and  the grass was  often just slightly too long

and the gardens were a bit free flowing,

hydrangeas and camellias were the plants of choice.

It was not an untidy suburb, it was just a family

place.

recently I went back to visit 

and it was not the same

There is not a bit of peeling paint

 to be spied anywhere

the gardens are manicured to 

within an inch of their lives

the cars in the drives are 

BMW s,  Mercedes Benz, and Suburus,

 mostly large 4 wheel drive machines

It is beautiful, there is no doubt about that 

but somehow it

 has lost that fabulous  familiar feeling

that said 

you are home!

all images were found here

Goodnight