This ship in a bottle was made by David’s great grandfather who was a sailor and passed down through the family. David’s father gave it to him many years ago and it had pride of place in our living room until last spring when I took it back to Adelaide so that it could remain in the family and hopefully be passed on to another generation.
Shirley Temple is a composition doll that Naomi and I bought last year between us, she was quite expensive. I was pleased to realise that Shirley is an S and a T so perfect for this challenge.
Ship in a bottleShirley Temple doll circa 1934.
The Letter T
Towel Animal
Tigerwoods
Teddy
Toby
I didn’t realise towel animals were a thing until we booked on our cruise. This was the first one that was made for us and is meant to be a rat but the big ears reminded us of Naomi’s dog Toby.
Toby is featured in this next set of photos of Naomi’s pets along with her other dog Teddy and Tigerwoods her tabby cat. And no, we are not interested in golf.
Born in England in 1957 my family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008.
We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. David passed away in 2015 and I'm here on my own now but I have Cindy the dog and Polly the cat to keep me company.
I currently co-write two Wordpress blogs with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania.
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7 thoughts on “Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: S & T”
I just love your Shirley Temple doll. And the dogs are adorable
We found Shirley in an antique shop. They were reorganising the store and she was in a random pile of items. We were so worried she would get broken that we spoke to the store owner. She was very expensive so we walked away but we both felt anxious about her survival so in the end my sister went back and put her on layby and we paid for her over three months.
I just love your Shirley Temple doll. And the dogs are adorable
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We found Shirley in an antique shop. They were reorganising the store and she was in a random pile of items. We were so worried she would get broken that we spoke to the store owner. She was very expensive so we walked away but we both felt anxious about her survival so in the end my sister went back and put her on layby and we paid for her over three months.
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Towel sculpture is clever. Cats are my favourite pet. Tigerwoods is a good name
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Naomi has had cats with “wood” in their name before Rosewood, Elwood, Fleetwood and he has tiger stripes so Tigerwoods.
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I just love that! Super tradition. I have a friend who puts cat into the name – like Kathmandu – then shortens it to Mandu
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What a marvelous collection of S’s and T’s for this week. Thanks for playing. I adore your ship in a bottle photo..
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I was sad to let it go but happy that it will stay in David’s family.
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