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Redsultana is the personal blog of a working mum in Perth. Cellobella works in the mainstream media but amazingly has a life outside of it which she shares on her blog.
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An expensive perch for one seagull
The Cottesloe Pylon has been fixed, just in time for summer. Not sure what the final cost was but it was quoted at $170 000… I like the way the colours reflect those of Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club… or maybe they reflect the paint on t...
I heart faces – Pink
This week, I heart faces is celebrating breast cancer awareness month with Pink Week. So let me tell you the story of this photo. On Saturday I went for my regular walk along the seafront at Cottesloe. We usually walk all the way to Swanborne and ...
Stupid sign
I first saw this sign at North Cottesloe. I thought then it was a stupid sign. What are they trying to warn against? Diving? Shallow water? Why not just say that?? To just say “water” seems a bit obvious. Hello… it is the Indian O...
Sunset in the suburbs
Everything is pink outside said my son this afternoon… Ah ha! I thought, the perfect chance to use the “sunset” feature on my new camera… This is straight out of the camera – no photoshopping I promise, not even a tweak...
Meeting the new man
It was a beautiful sunny morning in Cottesloe. The sky as blue as any summer day. The ocean smooth all the way to Rottnest, which sat on the horizon, clear enough to see the lighthouse. We met for breakfast at The Blue Duck, a restaurant Groover an...
Poorly Pylon
The first winter storm was the last straw for the Cottesloe Pylon which sank into its rotton core, losing its metal tip in the briny. The council are going to spend an extraordinary amount of money to put a single seagull’s perch together but i...
There’s always one isn’t there…
I don’t know whether you can read that sign but one of those little warning messages says NO SWIMMING. Note person swimming. What a rebel… I bet he doesn’t even call police officers “sir”!...
Sign Fail
I’m so glad they warned me about the water… I wasn’t expecting any at the edge of the Indian Ocean. Surely there should at least be a fin?...
Cottesloe Sculpture by the Sea 2009
We wandered around the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition, too early to buy a program, which, if I’m honest I wouldn’t have bought anyway because it cost $8 and that seems a bit rich, wondering which piece the council were going to buy. I lo...
When the surf is smokey
It wasn’t that long ago that Perth was surrounded by bushfires - or at least it felt that way. The sky was overcast with smoke. And yet I still didn’t “get it” when I saw the sign until I was well past it on my morning walk. ...
Swimming for the blog
The things I do for this blog. The extremes I will go to. Take the other night. Hugamuga suggested we have a family swim down the beach. Never mind that the news had been full of shark sightings and that someone had actually been taken. Never min...
Keep Cott Beautiful
Seems the Town of Cottesloe read my post about the Michael Jackson litter campaign and decided to update their signage. Hope it works although I will miss having a giggle at the old posters. The weather this Christmas break has been beautiful. H...
What retirement could be
I took this photo on our normal Saturday morning Cottesloe walk which is fast becoming a tradition for Groover and me. Could this couple be us in 40 years time? It’s kind of a scary and sweet thought mixed together…...
Someone forgot to tell the sun
The Sundial at Cottesloe doesn’t believe in daylight saving. Meantime I learned a great new term which I will use with abandon from now on to describe vegetarians who eat fish - I read it in The Big Issue - Looney’s column. A vegaquarian....
The power of song
Remember me telling you about this singing group? I go past them on my walk every Saturday. They meet around 9am outside The Blue Duck (this is the cafe in front of which Ken Crew was killed by a shark - remember that?) Well today instead of power w...
White elephants and minstrels
Today I found it really difficult to get up. I don’t think it was the late night - it wasn’t that late. I went to see Rachel Berger at the Regal Theatre - which was fun because she got the entire audience to come up on stage - publici...
Graffitti illusions
So my morning walks take me past this piece of art on the North Cottesloe foreshore… And every time I do I think “Grrrr, some little toerag has spray painted that artwork!” … But they haven’t. I wonder if the artist in...
Cottesloe sunset
This is the sun setting on Cottesloe on the last day before Daylight Saving in WA. I went out to dinner with some trailer trash. Seriously - these guys work on a trailer spreading joy and happiness to thousands of kids and I got to help out. T...
An effluent area
I like to go for a walk along Marine Parade, Cottesloe, one of Perth’s premier beaches. The other week I got up early to go for said walk. It was the day after an early Summer day and at 6.30 in the morning the air was clear with the promis...
