Tag Archives: australia
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dance (II)
12Saturday 19 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second Weekly Photo Challenge entry is a sculpture of what appears to me to be dancers (?) on Manly beach, Sydney, Australia. Hope …
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Australia Day
11Tuesday 26 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Today is Australia Day, the anniversary of when the first ships arrived back in 1788. I know it’ll be a special …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On the way (III)
2Sunday 31 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the pilot boat that is on the way to a ship it …
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Gallipoli: lifelong dedication
13Friday 24 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is my second post about the one hundred year anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign of World War One. Large official centennial memorial …
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Gallipoli: 100 years
10Friday 24 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One hundred years ago, the almost 9 month Gallipoli Campaign of World War One ended. The Allied forces withdrew from the peninsula, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Warmth (IV)
8Monday 29 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the natural warmth of a summer’s …
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The Bomb
16Tuesday 11 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Olivia Neutron Bomb : that’s how she was known to our ilk, back in the day…. The blond from Oz …
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Imagine The World Will Be As One
3Sunday 06 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
These next few minutes will make you… believe in the priceless love of a mother… think again about the definition …
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Granny Spike Goes Walkabout
14Saturday 08 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
We all have or have had mums, mothers, mummies… call them what you will. Mine is nuts. But in a …
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