Abingdon Miniature Village

I'm posing in front of St Nicholas Church

Well many think that I am small for my size but today I found the perfect place for all things miniature - welcome to the Abingdon Miniature Village  courtesy of daddy's workplace Christmas party! It is a display of historic English buildings from the UK with model trains, mini golfs, secret gardens, maze etc.

Market St Shops - strolling down to the shops with my bestie Lucy!

Halls Croft - big tree in the middle

Toll Cottage. For once I am a giant!

Art Exhibition on Amberley Gardens

Last night we did something really special. It was my first visit to an opening ceremony of a local art exhibition. It was held at the Amberley Gardens in Karnup. It is actually still on the for the week so check out the event on this link. 

Our friend Graeme will be featuring  his landscape, wildlife & street photography and Marilyn with her watercolour and pencil art, with some caricatures on display from her time as court artist.

www.graemebarrettphotography.com/

www.artbymarilyn.com.au/

Anyway, here was how the night unfolded...

Just right at the entrance.. what a grand swing this is...

 And we were then greeted by this massive tree (that is probably much much much older than I am) and a rustic-looking old windmill.

The disastrous sequel of strawberries

Hi everyone, remember mummy was going to make strawberry jam?

Do you like strawberry as I do?

Boxes of strawberries in the piling up in the fridge.

Pick your own strawberries in Bullsbrook, Perth

Ever wonder where to experience picking fruits in Perth, Australia? Well, wonder no more...

We are going to pick strawberries! It is the strawberry farm at 263 Old West Rd, Bullsbrook, which is around 120km north of Mandurah, or 50km northeast of Perth city.

PYO - Pick your own, not BYO :)

We depart from our house early in the morning. When we arrive at the farm, there are a few other families there ready to pick strawberries.

Betty Cuthbert - The Golden Girl

Do you know The Golden Girl? She is Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinting legend who astonished the world by winning an unprecedented three gold medals on the track at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. Later she made a spectacular comeback from injury at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo where she won another gold medal. In all she broke 11 individual world records and five relay records and her astounding achievements have never been surpassed by another Australian athlete.

Betty was born in the Sydney suburb of Merrylands on 20 April 1938. She had a twin sister Marie, an elder brother John and an elder sister Jean.You can read more stories about  Betty Cuthbert from the links below:
http://athletics.com.au/Athletes/Hall-of-Fame/Betty-Cuthbert
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/147496/Betty-Cuthbert

GOLDEN MOMENT: Betty Cuthbert wins the 100m final at the 1956 Olympic Games, for which she'll be honoured as one of the 12 inaugural IAAF Hall of Fame inductees.

Statue of Betty Cuthbert outside the Melbourne Criket Ground

Medovik - Honey Cake @ Fremantle Market

Hello people,

It has been a while since our last adventure so let me introduce to you somewhere local yet something foreign but yummy. The somewhere local is the Fremantle Market. No, not the Freo dockers :)

Anyway, the something foreign is the Medovik (Russian language for honey cake). Or the Bohemian / Czech / Ukraine honey cake. Not too sure who can really lay claim on its originality but I suppose it's just like the Australian / Kiwi Pavlova rivalry. FYI, mummy first tried it during her Ukrainian years.

Statue of John Gerovich's in the 1956 WAFL prelim final - I mean the Fremantle Market! :)

The Honey cake store

Paris - the city of romance?

Well this is our last European stop - the so-called city of romance or love but is that really so?
I guess you can be the judge by looking through the photos. However, I must admit that probably either there's too high of an unrealistic expectation of Paris or some infrastructure does need a bit more TLC. And oh, we almost got scammed by the "deaf and mute". Won't elaborate more but you can google them.
Apart from that, Paris does has it beautiful side so here we go...

The famous Lourve museum - didn't even have to queue as baby gets "express" lane. Go BIM!

Some majestic looking ceiling art