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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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Just call me Baldrick!
I’m very excited. You see this guy… His name is Sean. He’s a PhD student in Archeology at UWA. He’s studying convicts in WA. And he’s going on a field trip next year. And (this is the exciting bit) I’m going wit...
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...
Pata Negra Restaurant Review
See… now the logo makes sense! I don’t usually do restaurant reviews on this blog but Friday night we went to Pata Negra, the new Tapas bar open on Stirling Highway… opposite my fave Vietnamese restaurant TQR. It was fantastic. The...
Albany Pelicans
There’s something special about pelicans… they fly in like a squadron of bomber aircraft and land with pin point accuracy on their target. I travelled to Albany this week and discovered how beautiful a place it is. I took these photos dow...
The greenhood
Found under a bush at Dunsborough. July 4, 2009. About 18 cm tall. Pterostylis vittata More about this orchid. Of course my orchid hunter (Hugamuga) found it. It was the first time we’ve seen a greenhood on this site....
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...
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?...
The modern church
So what do you think? This is St Mary’s Cathedral in the centre of Perth undergoing extensive renovations and extensions. As you can see the new look includes a very modern semicircular section around the front. Long windows and curved pillar...
The sharks at Blackwell Reach
A lot of people go diving off Blackwell Reach - or at least they used to - it’s very deep. There are rumours of large river sharks that live down there. I imagine the visibility is a little “confronting”, but maybe that just means i...
Avon Adventure
One of the things I learned on a trip to Bath in the UK was that “avon” is the Celtic word for “river”. Thus when the Romans asked the ancient Britons what that river was called - they called it the Avon. This is why there are...
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. ...
Vision boards and horses
I’m not a great fan of Oprah but my mum is, and not long ago she insisted we sit down and watch an episode in which Oprah advocated vision boards. On these boards you put pictures of things you want to happen in your life. It’s like an e...
As pretty as an airport*
Airports aren’t known for their aesthetics - well, apart from Vancouver which is outstanding - but I discovered that we do have at least one very nicely designed airport in Western Australia, and in an unlikely place. Why I think Geraldton is a...
A rose by any other name
At the airport a couple of weeks ago I was sharing a table at the cafe with a rather good looking chap who was on his way to Cloudbreak. Cloudbreak, I thought, doesn’t that sound like a lovely destination… Well it is, if you like mining ...
The house-sitting chemist
On a recent trip to Geraldton, I was looking for another camera bag after I lost the second one in two weeks and a hostess gift for dinner that night - and as luck would have it, not only did the local chemist include a camera shop it also had a Dar...
Flashback to the Polly Pipe opening
Growing up with an civil engineer for a dad meant that we went to a lot of openings of big infrastructure projects. This is me and my brother at the opening of the Stirling Bridge in Fremantle. There is a better photo somewhere but I can’t fin...
Hung up on politics
Well wasn’t the election exciting? From a news perspective there were so many stories to tell and unlike most elections where the trends appear pretty quickly and it’s all over bar the speeches by 8.30pm, Saturday night saw us at 11pm wit...
Picnic at Elachbutting Rock
On the way back from the station last week we stopped by Elachbutting Rock. This granite outcrop is one of many in the area but a bit more special because of Monty’s pass - where part of the rock has sheared off and created a tunnel, and the R...
Dust Storm near Mukinbudin
Driving home on Tuesday after a beautiful morning at Elachbutting Rock - photos to come - we drove through a vicious dust storm. At first we thought it might be the rain that had been promised but it wasn’t until we’d passed Trayning tha...
Station country moments
We’ve just come back from four days on the station. Every time I go I wonder why it has taken me so long to go back. This time it didn’t rain while I was there but the winter temperatures made walking a pleasure. We taught the kids h...
Ennuin weekend
We’ve gone bush to the station this weekend. Hopefully the salt lake has more water in it than it did last time. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ennuin weekend", url: "http://redsultana.com/2008/07/13/ennuin-weekend/" });...
