Fremantle & Perth

We began the next stage of our holiday by flying from Sydney to Perth.  We took the train from the airport to Fremantle where I had booked an Airbnb which turned out to be totally amazing.

After checking in we went a wander around Fremantle.

On Sunday we took a tour of Fremantle Prison.

I was intrigued by the exhibition called Dancing in Fetters.

We had lunch by the beach and then went round the Maritime Museum.  There was a whole exhibition about how Australia won the America's Cup ( a yacht race).  I'm not a fan of maritime museums - I feel like I've seen one - I've seen them all, But Roger is a fan and if there's such a museum wherever we are, he has to visit it.  I liked this Lego replica of Australia 2 which was the winning yacht.

Next we took a boat trip up the river from Fremantle to Perth.  We took a free bus to Kings Park.

The next day we returned to Perth - this time by train.  We wanted to see the black swans at Lake Monger.  It was rather hot day and after walking from the station to the lake and then around the lake I was beginning to be somewhat irritable as there was no sign of swans, let alone black ones.  We had almost finished walking round the lake when we spotted one black swan and a few yards on, another swan with some fluffy cygnets.

We returned to the city centre and visited the Art Gallery of Western Australia.   The building was impressive but I didn't much like the art.

We moved on to the Western Australia Museum.  I wish we had not bothered with the Art Gallery as we had so little time at the museum due to arriving too close to closing time.  One of the galleries was about Connections.

I have struggled with the latest trend in art and textile circles about working on Sense of Place.  It hasn't captured my attention or thoughts.  However 'our place in the world' makes more sense to me.

This is the description of part of the gallery.

This got me thinking about my connection to Australia.  Not only the fact that my son and his family live there, but that my father was born there.  It has set me off on some interesting research which I will share with you in another post.

We returned to Fremantle and spent our last evening there having dinner at a Mexican restaurant.  We had eaten there the night before too.

On our walk back to our Airbnb I took this photo of the Fremantle Markets building.  We had visited the market on Sunday morning.

Coming up: a road trip in Western Australia

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

One Little Word 2023

Continuing my search for my focus word for this year, I had another chat with Mary in Messenger. I also picked up on the idea in the video I shared in my last post about listening out for a word or words that repeatedly catch the attention.

Amazingly, the word {connect} kept cropping up.  One of the times was when I was watching a programme about Charlie Mackesy who wrote the The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse.  Bear Grylls spoke about Charlie's sculptures showing connection and also said 'where there's connections there's always strength'.

 
I started thinking about connect and connections and then realised that I had chosen {connect} in 2017.  At the time, as I told you in my previous post, I was using Ali Edward's workshop, but had only got as far as March with it.   You can see how I got on, in these posts: January, February, March

I'm determined to do better this year.  To become more connected to my word!  More connected to my Creativity, to my Community, to my Well-being and to my Identity (which includes my faith).

There are several people in the One Little Word Facebook group with the same word.  I set up a subgroup for them all so that we can all be connected.  Good start for our word, I think.

I am not going to make a separate journal for my word as I did back in 2017.  I'm going to include it in my planner.

The week of December 26th to January 1st was in my 2022 planner and in the new one for 2023.  I didn't want to copy the 2022 page so I did this instead.

I went back to my box layout from 2022 and tweaked it for this year.  I've cut these boxes out and stuck them into my planner.

It takes quite a while to set up a new planner/journal but I am getting there.  Some of it was even ready for January 1st.

I did however manage to get the pages ready for this week.  I started with the pages that sassiecassieplans did on YouTube but deviated because I like more boxes than she does!

I've still got things to do in my planner for January but at least I've started.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice