A little bit of rain and wow! Things start to
look good again!!! 

Last day of April, just before a welcome
thunderstorm. The classic shape of a metasequoia,
liquidambar, Queen Elizabeth and Avon roses and the little annexe at Tingiringi.  

Autumn at Parma: a collage that includes
Zoe Sadler with her new haircut (to impress
Bramley Esler of course). 

No, this is not Zoe Sadler, but her smiling friend
(except at dinnertime) Bramley Esler, newly
arrived from the UK . Bram is almost wearing
his heart on his sleeve in the brisk Huskisson
wind late in April. We enjoyed his visit, and think he enjoyed the sirloin and cheese. A lovely dog, in a classic poodle pose. 

"Old" (mmm!) friends meet again in a new location.
Welcome home Jill, Stuart and the smiling Bramley - with Jean, Eddie and Zoe at the Parma Farm and Moona Moona Creek, Jervis Bay, late in April. It was hot one day and cold the next - that's April weather!  

John Lange in his new Porsche - he intends to drive to Melbourne
with the top down - good luck John !! 

Hi there Vernie
We loved your 5 300 photos and it was hard
to make a choice for the blog. I hope you
approve! The droughthasn't broken here yet,
but you know me, I'm planting anyway. I really really like the eye.
 

Miri's 2003 Christmas card, to add to the 2005
version. below. I think I'll commission some cards
from Miri for next Christmas! We all love the donkey in this one. 

Jean Robertson (Rodway/Sadler) age 5, last voyage of the
Chitral 1949. My mother's scarf and a coffee bead necklac(I still have
some of the coffee bean beads). En route to Australia on a
voyage to save my life. It seems to have worked. Thank-you to my parents for leaving home and family for me.  

A competition snap for so many Australian Sadler photos! This is a
rare photo of three very English children in Colombo in 1949.
Guess who is wearing the necklace? How outpost of the Empire is this? Does our rickshaw puller have a six pack or is he really malnourished as I now seriously suspect? My brothers are
John and Stuart. We've all changed a lot. 

The boys and Miri come to stay at Kalaru -
one Sunday late in March, A tea party and
bead bracelet making were part of the day's fun.