Music
Pipe bands are music to my ears.
I am probably showing my age with this selection of music.
Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Anything Related to Music
Category: Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Any Kind Of Geometric Shape
Shapes
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Cee’s Black & White Challenge: It’s All About Nature
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things with Engines or Motors
Motors around the house
Just for a change from vehicles and machinery, I decided to photograph things around the house with motors.
The first two are a couple of real veterans that I’ve owned for decades.
My Sunbeam hand mixer has just finished its Christmas tour of duty as I made two batches of mince pies. It faltered a little at one point and I thought I was going to lose it but it soldiered on to finish the job. This mixer originally belonged to mum. I got it for her with a voucher I’d won in a competition in 1970 when I was thirteen. When I got married she gave it to me and it’s been with me ever since. That’s nearly 50 years of service. They knew how to make them back then. For the record, I think it cost about $25 at least that’s how much the voucher was for. I can’t remember if we bought anything else with it.
Mum also gave me my Ronson hairdryer. I believe I was 23 when I got it. It hasn’t had such a lot of use as the mixer as I usually prefer to dry my hair naturally now that I wear it short but it still works.
It has seen better days but this small heater/cooler still works and gets a bit of use on chilly evenings keeping my feet warm when I am on the computer. It’s been around since about 2002
The HP printer has no such pedigree. It is probably more than five years old now. I know David and I bought it in Hobart. I don’t remember when. It still works but I don’t print that often.
The last item is my Hoover Dog and Cat vacuum cleaner. I bought this while David was sick in the hospital so I know it is about three years old.
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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
Rocks and Stones
I have more phone photos today because although I went out with my camera on Friday it turns out that almost everything in Geeveston is made of wood!
Hobart
So here are some sandstone bricks I photographed in Hobart, many of the old buildings date from the 1820s and the bricks were made with convict labour.
Huon Valley
An old headstone in the Catholic cemetery in Geeveston.
Penguin
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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything that is Hot and/or Cold
Cool Times on Ovation of the Seas
We’ve had some warm days here in Tasmania recently but I have been too busy to take any photographs so let’s see how people stay cool (or not) on Ovation of the Seas.
Getting an icecream on the pool deck is a delicious way to cool down although perhaps not so much for the guy serving them.
I didn’t try these but they look like a pretty good way to enjoy the pool.
Meanwhile the staff still have to get their work done. We got to do a tour and saw some of the places below decks.
The people in here always keep cool at work.
This guy, not so much.
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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Field
Sports Fields
I decided to make sports fields the theme of this post. All the ones pictured are used for multiple sports but I have only visited in summer to watch cricket.
This photo was taken in 2010, my first ever time at a cricket match and the first time I had seen inside Bellerive Oval. There is a big new grandstand where the two small ones are now which is a shame in a way because you can’t see the mountain as well as before.
In the lead up to the Cricket World Cup practice games were held at suburban grounds. This was at Kingston and I especially liked the way the ground staff had prepared for the game which was between Scotland and Tasmania.
Another first for me was to travel to Launceston on my own to see a charity cricket match at Aurora Stadium.
This one was taken at the playing fields at Rupertswood, a grand old house in Sunbury, Victoria. Cricket history has it that the legend of “The Ashes” began here. Apart from the modern lighting towers, this place has not changed a lot.
On the same trip to Victoria, my friends and I went on a tour of the Melbourne Cricket Ground. It was not a match day and I am unlikely to ever see any cricket played there because I won’t go to the mainland in summer if I can avoid it. However, I can imagine these empty stands full of excited fans on Boxing Day the traditional first day of the post Christmas Test Match because I have seen it many times on television.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground.
