Dr Lilon Bandler

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Mosaic in blue and purple, with pressed flowers from Amy Christoffers
View from train, as it crosses Sydney Harbour Bridge. So clear today - view across to Blue Mountains in the far distance.
This is what I frogged. 😱 Lot of work to let go of - but I learnt a lot! Work is triangular; main colour dark blue, with pink contrast for mosaic pattern and for flower motif
Two stone boulders as bollards. The top halves are sculpted as fishermen (head and shoulders)
Sock number 1; toe up 8 ply hand-dyed blue blue
Striped blanket in forest green, sienna brown and pale green; knitted with alternating garter and stocking triangles for texture Finch; 10ply; cotton Pattern Triss Baby Blanket by Agnieszka Wojtkowiak
Flights avoiding Iran in order to land in Dubai - going over Saudi Arabia instead
Plain mustard yellow socks, knitted toe up in 10ply yarn. With fold over ribbed cuff in deep (almost black) navy
72% counted Ali France on 58% and a winner of Dickson
View across a wide first floor wooden verandah. There is iron lacework around the edge, and little bits of it at each upright. The roof is corrugated iron. There are long shadows cast by the lacework because it is very late afternoon. (I love these shadows.) Beyond the verandah is the wide street below, and across the road is a pub, and a Honda dealer. The sky beyond that is pale blue - without a single cloud.
Close up of the heel (gusset and heel flap). The heel has a little extra padding. And the gusset has a nice triangular pattern thanks to the decrease from the heel. In other words a neat-looking and comfortable-feeling heel and sock! So proud!!
Hand knitted socks, made by me! They are randomly striped (the yarn was randomly dyed). The yarn is silk and nylon and wool combined. I bought it in Glasgow last year! The colours include purple and yellow and dark blue and orange and grey - all melding together to make a speckledly pattern. They fit my feet perfectly. For the knitters: 4 ply yarn on double point needles, cuff down, Finchley graft to finish.
A small animal/insect - green. About 4cm long
Pale skeleton - head, torso, arms and hands, with black round eye, nose and mouth sockets. The pose is of the skeleton shrugging their shoulders.
Pale skeleton - head, torso, arms and hands, with black round eye, nose and mouth sockets. The pose is of the skeleton shrugging their shoulders.
Screenshot of local temperature in Sydney. Currently 32⁰C with completely unnecessary description of "sunny". Low temp will be 19⁰C. We're lucky here - it very rarely snows (if ever). And doesn't get as 🥵 hot as further north and west.
Home-sized espresso machine. Bean grinder behind it. Pressure gauge is up - green light is on. Good to go!
Photo of a white mug with black handle and black inside. It says "I ❤️ (red heart) my HREC", which stands for Human Research Ethics Committee. On the other side it has the dates of the 2025 meetings!!! One a month February to November. No excuses for forgetting a meeting now!!
View across wide wooden verandah with beautiful ironwork lace around the edge. Looking out at the pub across the road - also with a wide area of outside pavement shaded by overhanging roof. Blue blue sky beyond with a few bits of very white cloud.
Liberal frontbencher and former minister to resign. Headline in Sydney Morning Herald 10Dec2024
1968 Olympics - the Human Rights salute (as Smith termed it) by Tommie Smith (centre - gold) and John Carlos (right - third). Norman (left - second) stands in solidarity with them. They are wearing his black gloves (Smith the right hand one and Carlos the left). Both men were pall bearers at Norman's funeral.
View from passenger seat in car, dawn with bright sun on horizon which silhouettes the leafless trees. Beautiful streaky clouds highlighted with light of the sun.
Huge beautiful graceful horse head metal sculpture.
Dawn scene - dark lower third with horizon and leafless tree silhouetted again a sky - light yellow at the horizon and darker up high. Cloudless.
Lots of five pointed yellow stars of various sizes!
Today's productions: bottles of pickling brine, containers of pickled cucumbers and beans, vegetable stock, containers with 🍅 sugo/sauce.
Streetscape - with building of red sandstone and turret, AND looming grey sky.
Pile of 8 books, 3 with green covers, 3 with red and 2 with blue cover. No titles or authors.
pink pleated cloth in fan shape. It sits with hub of the fan-shape at the hub of the back wheel of the bicycle and spreads over the wheel, anchored to the wheel's mudguard. Stops skirts (or capes) becoming entangled in the spokes.
A pile of 8 books - no titles, authors. All hard back, bound and with various plain coloured covers.
Logo for 2024 St Stephen's College, Music Dept Australian Tour designed by Ashley Hui. Hand drawn in white on blue background, cleverly including instruments notes clefs Treble and bass) with a crown all in the style of a complex crest.
Aerial view of Sydney Harbour, including bridge and opera house in the distance. Taken from the plane flying in from Brisbane.
A sulphur crested cockatoo - big white bird with a pale yellow crest - sitting atop the folded outdoor umbrella.
Starting to cast on knitting using a technique that leaves no seam in the toe of the sock. Hard to master - but worth it.
Hand knitted socks in turquoise wool, on my feet, coming up the legs about 5cm.
Finished sock on the foot, knitted in the round on four (3.25mm) needles in 8ply turquoise wool. A small safety pin marks the first needle.
Ribbed cuff to finish a sock knitted in the round on four (3.25mm) needles in 8ply turquoise wool. A small safety pin marks the first needle.
Heel of the sock now completed, knitted in the round on four (3.25mm) needles in 8ply turquoise wool.
Toe and half of the foot knitted in the round on four (3.25mm) needles in 8ply turquoise wool. A small safety pin marks the first needle.
Sock toe knitted in the round on four double point needles (3.25mm) in turquoise 8 ply wool. There is a small safety pin 🧷 marking the first needle.
First ten rows of knitting - starting at the toe of the sock - using 5 double point needles (2.5) and BRIGHT pink 4ply (fairly thin) wool.
Bright pink Lillies Mt Tomah Botanical Gardens 🇦🇺
Coast Redwood planted in 1936. Now tall and beautiful reaching to the sky
Proteas - close up Mt Tomah Botanical Gardens 🇦🇺
Bright green leaves with white flowers on my strawberry plants in a black pot.