Finally...older than me!!!

I have just told a friend

that I am not

a metal kinda girl!

 only to realise 

that one of my favourite pieces in our home

is just that

metal!

Actually it is worse than metal it is

onyx and gilt!!

way, way, way over the top!

Oh dear! Do you think 

I should have dusted it before taking these?! 

the floor could have done with a good mop too!

Half way up are  the hooks for an umbrella 

or parasol as it is a French piece

Then at the top the hat goes at a jaunty angle

don't you just love the hanger for the coat? (wide and rounded

so no mark was left on the jacket)

and then a small hook for a cane!

There it stands in all it's over the top glory

I understand it is French probably mid 1800's

and if any one has seen one like it

or knows anything about it I would love to hear.

It normally hold a red Fez that UK daughter brought home

for her Father

My Father's pith helmet, rather aged and tired

but it was well worn during the 2nd World War

and a Malacca cane. 

So maybe, just maybe a could be a

metal kinda girl!!

Goodnight

...the rains came...and came...and came!

Today was our first reasonably fine day in weeks

the tractors sit silently

the men wait patiently

the silos are only half full

I tried to take some photos of the bridges 

under water but 

couldn't get close enough for all

the other 

rubberneckers!

That's not me of course

I am serious about this

I need to take photos for you!!!

The traffic in town is appalling

more like Sydney than a country town

as they edge the semis

around the swollen river banks

and over the old bridges that weren't

meant to take these weights

The school children stayed home

the roads are all closed

Tonight our river is going down

but in other towns they wait fearfully

for the expected rises still to come

After more than ten years of drought

this is a cruel way to end it

These beautiful paddocks overflowing

with the best growth in years,

the answer to so many prayers,

are fit now only for feed

if and when they can get the machinery in

without becoming hopelessly bogged

Say a little prayer for our farmers when you go to bed tonight

they need all the help they can get

Goodnight