FOWChallenge-Renovate

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renovate

restore (something old, especially a building)

to a good state of repair.

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Note the right hand side of my woolshed roof

has a very new look about it

when compared to the left side.

I had many other options that could

have used a renovation,

however Mother Nature decided for me.

We often get what we call whirlwinds

(tiny tornados or cyclones )

which do no harm…usually.

Although I did not see the event it must have been

a bigger whirlwind than normal as

about half the roof on the east side of

my woolshed was scattered all over

the woolshed paddock.

Hence the renovated roof.

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Fandango’s One Word Challenge:…Renovate

A-Photo-a-Week-Challenge-A-New-Photo

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On more than  one occasion I have mentioned

the Men’s Shed to which I belong. 

This is half the workshop and its contents

have been donated to us.

We also have a separate meeting room.

 

 

Our first grandchild is the newest thing

in our lives this year. 

She was born on March 2 

and already has a passport photo. 

We will meet her closer to, or at, Easter.

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A Photo a Week Challenge:…A-New-Photo

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Pic-and-Word-Challenge_Wk268-Scale

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scale

an instrument for weighing,

originally a simple balance ( a pair of scales )

but now usually a device with an electronic

or other internal weighing mechanism.

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each of the small, thin horny or bony plates

protecting the skin of fish and reptiles,

typically overlapping one another.

 

 

 

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Scales on our friendly…

 

 

Blue Tongue Lizard.

It has  been living under oour front verandah.

However,  hasn’t been sighted for a while,

Although our neighbour speaks of a

Blue Tongue living near his shed.

 

A few years back Candi was barking

madly at this dead snake.

Either I ran over it while cutting grass or a predator

had dropped it from a great height.

 

 

 

My first thought upon seeing the week’s challenge.

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Cee’s-FFChallenge-Hole-Or-Whole

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When this elephant wandered past us our guide said,

There goes the whole of Africa.

Knowing our guide he would have

had a twinkle in his eye, as we did,

not knowing whether he had

said Hole or Whole

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However there was no discussion about spelling

we when arrived at Lochnagar Crater, some

21 Km from Villers Bretonneux.

A hole in the ground it was.

Created by detonating 27 tons of explosive

under the German army’s frontline.

The explosion created a crater

330 feet (100.5 metres) across

and 70 ft (21 metres) deep.

For comparison a Jumbo jet

measures 63 metres in length

with a wing span of 60 metres

and a height of 19.4 metres (63 ft 6 in)

meaning it would easily fit in the crater.

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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge:….Hole-or-Whole

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