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Twenty-Fifteen thanks - you've been great!

2015  a very delightful year! Family highlights: Schools out for ever ! All Kids at University.  Travel:  Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, UK, Belgium, France, Vanuatu Career highlights: returning to paid employment with Asylum Seekers.  Isn't it interesting to see your most popular posts,  compared with what you believe are your best posts ?! Here are the most viewed each month  with March's My Sunday Photo "Escape" coming in the winner! JANUARY Happy Australia Day 2015   FEBRUARY Welcome to our Melbourne Madhouse  Australia I love having the Japanese girls to stay! MARCH My Sunday Photo: Escape  Australia APRIL Good Friday Royal Children's Hospital Appeal Melbourne  - Australia MAY I remember Wren  - UK JUNE Paris memories  - France JULY Alice in Oxford  - UK AUGUST Spring in Melbourne SEPTEMBER When two world's collide ...

My Mumsy Street Art!

Go Banksy go! The rebel in me has always had a soft spot for street art. It's the wild creative that appeals. Speaking the honest truth with a spray can. Nicholson Street, Footscray, Vic, Australia I t's hard to know how to reply when asked in Bristol, UK this weekend:  "have you ever used a spray can before?" 'How do you know I'm not a world famous street artist from Australia?' 'Or the real Banksy?'  I ask. Footscray,Vic, Australia Street Art My absolute hero is Banksy. I love the dark humour of  the Bristol street artist  whose real identity remains unknown.  I admire his willingness to tackle head on the issues of the day. Banksy and Little Wandering Wren: two peas in a pod - ha! Banksy has the week, depicted Steve Jobs,  Apple founder  and Syrian migrant,  on a wall of a migrant and refugee camp in France. Further along the wall are the words 'no-one deserves to live this way' Having work...