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Ilford


Today is Australia Day... wishing all Aussie readers a great day in our wonderful land.

We're at Ilford (population 250) which is a little bit past Running Stream.  I think the protest is about an extension to one of the coal mines risking the springs and creek, There is not much to Ilford  - a closed road house, a closed cafe up for sale, a cluster of houses and churches of both varieties ... the one below recently auctioned as residential.


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  1. WinamJanuary 26, 2011 at 9:15 AM

    Happy Australia Day to you too, Joan. A lovely sandstone church.

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  2. JulieJanuary 26, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    Now wouldn't that be wonderful to live in ... and all that space for the veggie garden and a sheep.

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  3. Joan ElizabethJanuary 26, 2011 at 4:35 PM

    Or perhaps a house cow.

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  4. freefallingJanuary 27, 2011 at 11:03 AM

    A church with a chimney - I don't think I've ever seen one of those!
    I do spy a fat little sheep.

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  5. Joan ElizabethJanuary 27, 2011 at 7:51 PM

    Letty you're right ... I had not noticed the chimney. Yes there is a fat little sheep in the yard, in fact there was a small flock of them.

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  6. UnknownJanuary 28, 2011 at 4:46 AM

    Hope you have had a happy Australia Day.

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  7. JulieJanuary 28, 2011 at 7:57 AM

    mm ... is that a contradicton in terms ... a small flock ... ?

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  8. JulieJanuary 28, 2011 at 7:58 AM

    Just embiggened ... that is not a chimney ... that be a bell tower ...

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  9. freefallingJanuary 29, 2011 at 10:25 AM

    oh.
    a bell tower.
    what a cute little bell must have been in there.
    and i love that little decoration on top.

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