Tag Archives: everyday beauty

Make your own kind of music

Posted on April 23, 2023 by parrot feather

Part way through this week I heard the snippet of a song on an instagram video about, well, something else entirely. It was Cass Elliot singing ‘Make your own kind of Music’ – a song I hadn’t heard for YEARS. … Continue reading →

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Rose, where did you get that red?

Posted on April 15, 2023 by parrot feather

Back in 1991, while I was in Canada, I bought a book called “Rose, where did you get that red?” It’s by Kenneth Koch and is about how he taught poetry (‘great poetry’) to primary school aged children. It’s a … Continue reading →

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The tree lives on

Posted on August 20, 2022 by parrot feather

As befits the ‘buttons and bread’ orientation of this blog, I am interested in the passing remnants of life, the small events, forgettable happenings, the things that go by unremarked or barely so. Each of our days has many such … Continue reading →

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Lessons for life, learnt from the chooks

Posted on November 14, 2021 by parrot feather

I’ve been sad this week. The darling chickens in Auburn were all killed by a fox a bit over a week ago. We always had chooks – it is the first time in over 60 years there have been no … Continue reading →

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Geraniums (day and night)

Posted on October 10, 2020 by parrot feather

Geraniums (and pelargoniums) are so cheerful and robust. They are flowering pretty much everywhere at the moment – great for one of my occasional posts about flowers in season. They have the disadvantage for this blog of being brighter and … Continue reading →

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