Postcrossing

 When we were on our tour of USA and Canada, I heard about Postcrossing from another traveller. She was quite involved in it and it sounded interesting so I looked it up and when we came home I joined.

Basically one sends post cards to other members. When ready to send some, a request is put in to the Web site and then they send an address with a profile to send to.

Once you receive a post card, take a photo and enter it on your account and senders know that you have received it.

I havent had that many yet about eight I think and sent about the same, I did four this week and all to Germany.

One of the first post cards I received its a quilt that her niece made for her and she had the photo made into postcards and sent it to me as I am into crafts.

I have been able to buy stamped postcards with Aussie scenes and animals on the, the stamps can go anywhere in the world so I don't have to get certain stamps for particular countries. 

My buy

 I went to Office works a couple of weeks ago to buy a calendar. I got side tracked looking at office chairs.  I had to go there and buy one about eight years ago as my then current one had snapped in two when I bent over backwards and found myself continuing on to the floor. It was my sewing chair and I had been sewing.

Anyhow I was interested to see the styles and cost that they currently had in stock.

Of course, we did buy one. My old chair had arms and were constantly getting caught when I changed positions from sewing table to sewing machine. Also the "leather" had been peeling off it. Very disconcerting at first to discover black pieces of something on the carpet. An investigation showed that the leather or leather was dropping from under the chair. It vacumned up quite easily but any excuse was good enough reason to buy a new chair.

This one has no arms to catch, a breathable back and a wide seat. It has had a good workout since buying it.

The week after purchase, while doing the groceries, Aldi had car seats for sale, I bought one for the old chair which solved the problem and it has been installed in the computer room.

A Christmas tree

 Out walking Lucy this morning at a neighbouring suburb when she stopped in her tracks and wanted to go into the shopping centre that we were passing.

I do have some interesting conversations, mostly I win as I have the lead.

I looked up at one of the trees to see that if has been decorated for Christmas, it was the only one that was in amongst others.

Further along was a flame tree in full blossom