Majesty

Pre-Olympics Melbourne was so very different when Her Maj arrived in 1954 when small children were shepherded to the front of the crowds lining the streets, and sat cross-legged in safety, waiting for a glimpse of Her Maj. Those of us in school received a medallion, and I have been wearing mine this week, pointlessly in my remote seclusion.
This surreal illustration which appears to assume an 'inclusion' of various members of 'our society' is less real than if PIXAR had done it. embiggen, and then shreik.
The 'Pieta'-like glamour lubra and child defies opinion. I searched for artist name, they wisely 'anon'.
For those of you who have never trekked to the immediate proximity of Her Maj, trust me, the star thing applies. May she live long and prosper ...

a good clean show

A friend took this photo in WA. If you CNTL+ to embiggen you will see the poster has A GOOD CLEAN SHOW on it, not once, but twice. The good old days.

Newspaper Article
https://www.trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/49004386
DAWNETTE AND THE PERFORMING Wonder Dogs. M2211. Available floor shows and par ties.
At a Christmas Eve party,children living nearby will see
"Dawnette" give a show with her performing dogs. Lady
an Afghan hound, is to be the dogs' Father Christmas and will
wear a long beard and scarlet cloak.

just Ducky

At the end of my street there is a swamp the council calls 'a lake' and these 12 baby ducks were bobbing around on it today.

billabong birdie

Eastern Rosellas in this burkes backyard.Parent birds look horrified to have bred a Thorpedo child.Scientific name Platycercus-eximius may have confused bird into swimming like a platypus.I enjoyed it all without even leaving my chair inside. It's freezing in Ballarat right now, and bloody Summer Time starts tomorrow getting up an hour earlier than it 'feels like' - up with the birds as they say.