tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post6397926394197545428..comments2024-03-27T20:59:48.293+11:00Comments on eclectica: Kylie turns 50kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-19763692484644312612021-05-18T01:49:51.026+10:002021-05-18T01:49:51.026+10:00Gosh I missed this, so a belated happy birthday Ky...Gosh I missed this, so a belated happy birthday Kylie (and here's to the next 50)!Treadershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613671137557939083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-79063965947515876432021-05-17T10:13:32.444+10:002021-05-17T10:13:32.444+10:00Thank you, Ms Scarlet. Parties date back to the pr...Thank you, Ms Scarlet. Parties date back to the pre-covid era, hard to understand these days but if you picture food, drink, music, fun and maybe a little debauchery you have the right idea.<br />I predict that parties will be the new black in the coming agekyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-60623370325632788972021-05-11T23:10:45.892+10:002021-05-11T23:10:45.892+10:00Happy very belated birthday greetings!!!
What is t...Happy very belated birthday greetings!!!<br />What is this 'party' thing of which you speak?!! Great that you celebrated!<br />SXXMs Scarlethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00449626572478125088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-74998254312635998632021-05-11T12:18:14.387+10:002021-05-11T12:18:14.387+10:00Thanks Neil! It was a lot of fun and my daughters ...Thanks Neil! It was a lot of fun and my daughters did a lot of tidying up (as well as other random things)kyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-82653872753949845092021-05-10T23:32:13.677+10:002021-05-10T23:32:13.677+10:00Belated congratulations on achieving your half cen...Belated congratulations on achieving your half century Kylie. How admirable that you embraced the idea of a party and saw it through. Sounds like it was a happy occasion - partly down to the help of your devoted offspring. Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-8617123276433713042021-05-09T09:09:46.682+10:002021-05-09T09:09:46.682+10:00But it is true! And your computer-savvy friends,...But it is true! And your computer-savvy friends, if you have any, would know it. I myself, being 80 in decimal now, am the one who is 50 in hexadecimal!rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-46685905117106857862021-05-09T02:27:43.368+10:002021-05-09T02:27:43.368+10:00Belated happy birthday wishes, kylie! The nice thi...Belated happy birthday wishes, kylie! The nice thing about giving yourself a party, or even a gift, is that it will be just what you want :) That looks like a fun way to celebrate.jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-51571873074988841092021-05-09T01:12:17.839+10:002021-05-09T01:12:17.839+10:00*On Patrick White, Australia's Great Unread N...*On Patrick White, Australia's Great Unread Novelist.*<br />Madeleine Watts. Literary Hub. 2021.<br />Ms Watts can write: I hope I live to read her first book.<br /><br />I like White's novel The Vivisector. Some say Hurtle Duffield the painter was modelled after Francis Bacon, but I kept thinking of Graham Sutherland a superior talent. Sutherland did a haunting portrait of Somerset Maugham.<br />My favourite living painter is Barbara Rae - see her work online.<br /><br />I reread The Aunt's Story for the third or fourth time and the baking sun of Australia was beating down on me.<br />I don't know why Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown did not make a movie of one of White's novels or one of David Malouf's: The Great World; Harland's Half Acre.<br />JackHaggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-51440734019066877862021-05-09T00:50:55.734+10:002021-05-09T00:50:55.734+10:00I have a copy of Conde Nast Travel from years ago ...I have a copy of Conde Nast Travel from years ago with a photo of old Paris.<br />The caption said that the French capital had more trees than any other city.<br /><br />My late elder brother was living in L.A. when trees were being chopped down because of cuts imposed by President Reagan, the ally of Mrs Thatcher, who said there was no such thing as society. Stupid woman.<br /><br />So sorry the old fig trees have been felled. We have to fight developers and local authorities. Imagine, they wanted to build over Centennial Park.<br />Patrick White, one of my favourite writers, joined the campaign to save it.<br /><br />The kids in your photos are having fun. Lockdown for them has felt such a long time. They need to get out and have a laugh.<br />JackHaggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-45301876195195815612021-05-08T11:33:29.278+10:002021-05-08T11:33:29.278+10:00Thank you Jennifer!Thank you Jennifer!kyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-60289088184461453372021-05-08T11:33:13.368+10:002021-05-08T11:33:13.368+10:00Lol, yes, half way to my telegram from the monarch...Lol, yes, half way to my telegram from the monarch! I received a card from my local MP. He could have saved the moneykyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-7792840935516375432021-05-08T11:31:36.120+10:002021-05-08T11:31:36.120+10:00i dont think anyone would believe that!i dont think anyone would believe that!kyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-43767589705518973012021-05-08T11:31:11.427+10:002021-05-08T11:31:11.427+10:00I really had a great time! Thanks RedI really had a great time! Thanks Redkyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-27473593765804461512021-05-08T11:30:48.282+10:002021-05-08T11:30:48.282+10:00Thanks Jack!
I'm pretty grey, do I get to be e...Thanks Jack!<br />I'm pretty grey, do I get to be eminent as well?<br /><br />The weather in Sydney is glorious, very comfortable warm days, blue skies and cooler nights. I'm in my happy place.<br /><br />Sydney has never been good at preserving trees and in the last few years we have lost some very grand old figs due to the thing they call development. Everywhere I go there are established trees being poisoned off or chopped down. It's criminal. <br />Enjoy your tree filled walks, they really add something to life!kyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-86440919406079611482021-05-08T11:22:43.388+10:002021-05-08T11:22:43.388+10:00Thank you! and welcome here!Thank you! and welcome here!kyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-36775855357551630932021-05-08T11:22:23.824+10:002021-05-08T11:22:23.824+10:00Indian food has to be my favourite, though I suspe...Indian food has to be my favourite, though I suspect that what we eat here would be significantly different to what is eaten in an Indian home.<br />We had eggplant & potato curry, butter chicken, daal, rice, naan and a kind of salad made with samosa componentskyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-32382347168122403262021-05-08T11:20:10.132+10:002021-05-08T11:20:10.132+10:00Fun and a good feed were the two aims. Goals kicke...Fun and a good feed were the two aims. Goals kicked!kyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-33293979738536235872021-05-08T11:19:21.478+10:002021-05-08T11:19:21.478+10:00It was so much fun!It was so much fun!kyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-69178392086984657432021-05-08T11:19:08.202+10:002021-05-08T11:19:08.202+10:00Thanks Graham! It should be a good year, I've ...Thanks Graham! It should be a good year, I've had bad times but not bad years, I just don't think that waykyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-20386875935206968452021-05-08T11:18:07.033+10:002021-05-08T11:18:07.033+10:00I've never been confident as a aprty planner b...I've never been confident as a aprty planner but I was so happy with this one, I think I can do it more often!kyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-11745196909403029442021-05-08T11:17:01.462+10:002021-05-08T11:17:01.462+10:00I have a number of overseas friends I would have l...I have a number of overseas friends I would have loved to invite!kyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-33518441298530963362021-05-08T11:16:30.850+10:002021-05-08T11:16:30.850+10:00Thank you! drumming was almost meditative but fun ...Thank you! drumming was almost meditative but fun at the same timekyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-59344974955045872982021-05-08T02:03:00.536+10:002021-05-08T02:03:00.536+10:00What a great celebration! Happy birthday to you!What a great celebration! Happy birthday to you!Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512800812290518552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-33288551654090990382021-05-08T00:51:35.215+10:002021-05-08T00:51:35.215+10:00Belated greeting oh half way to a century one!
Wh...Belated greeting oh half way to a century one!<br /><br />What a great party!<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017882226857032208.post-55232666918389233842021-05-08T00:43:17.088+10:002021-05-08T00:43:17.088+10:00No need to wish you a happy birthday as you very o...No need to wish you a happy birthday as you very obviously had one! Do not feel old in the slightest (though you are now nearer your 100th birthday than to the day you were born). Instead, tell everyone that we are living in the age of computers now and you have adopted hexadecimal arithmetic (base 16) which makes you 32.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.com