Ootong & Lincoln

South Fremantle is a great place to have Sunday breakfast.  One of our new favourites is Ootong & Lincoln on South Terrace.

The decor is 50% retro and 50% quirky.  The food and coffee are 100% terrific.

Rottnest Channel Swim 2011

It was an early start today.

My son went in the Rottnest Channel Swim today.  I was under instructions to deliver my son, the kayak and its paddler  to Cottesloe Beach no later than 5.30 this morning.  He was swimming in a duo.

There was a terrific atmosphere on the beach, even though it was barely light when we first arrived.  The escort boats were already all offshore and twinkling in the half darkness. I took a few photos whiclst we were waiting for the swimmers to start.

The escort boats waiting in the dark

My son

Getting ready

Lots of media attention

Starters' checkpoint

Starter's orders

And they're off! 

There are over 2,000 swimmers taking part this year so it was pretty crazy in the water as each swimmer tried to find their paddler.  It is a 20k ocean swim - so no mean feat.

Rare Sightings - February 2011

Blue sky in Melbourne

Grey sky in Perth

It's been a really strange Summer so far!

Fashion Trends

The expensive boutique version of shabby chic

My new winter shoes from Melbourne (but it's far too hot in Perth to be thinking about wearing winter shoes)

I am into prints and stripes in natural fabrics until the weather cools down

The new winter fashion trend seems to have a "shabby chic" focus.

Personally, I find it difficult to justify spending a ridiculous sum of money on something which, with a little effort, I could easily replicate by scouting around vintage shops or (even better) op-shops and markets.

Look for old leather school satchels and pre-loved boots and you can achieve the same effect at a far more modest cost.

The Letter I

I have to admit that I struggled a bit to find three suitable candidates for the letter " I " but here they are:

Ice

Iodine

Ivory

Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home

A ladybird landed on me the other day in the garden.

I picked a leaf and let it crawl on to the leaf so that I could move it somewhere else, as I had always been taught as a child that if a ladybird landed on you it was lucky but that it was very unlucky if you killed one.

Apparently that was the reason for the rhyme "Ladybird, ladybird fly away home". If a ladybird landed on you you were supposed to say the rhyme so that it would fly away again!

Full Moon

Did anyone notice the wonderful moon last night?