The fires in Australia are still catastrophic. Some have been burning since September. So far the estimate is that ONE BILLION animals have been killed, 24 people have died, and 2000 houses, plus farms, farm buildings, vehicles have been destroyed. And an area the size of the country of Ireland has…

4 years ago / 286 visits / 6 comments / 4 people like

Yesterday an apocalyptic bushfire was very close to us. My husband was out with several hundred other volunteer firefighters in temperatures of 44C, and I was preparing to evacuate our home. It was a terrifying day. Many people did lose everything. Australia is currently on fire, and has unprecedent…

5 years ago / 276 visits / 18 comments / 3 people like

Dear friends, a number of you have asked about the disasters in Australia just now. Thanks Udo, Jose and others. Presently the Tropical North East of Australia has unprecedented floods, with the area around Townsville having more than its whole annual rainfall in a week. Housesare inundated,water is…

5 years ago / 311 visits / 5 comments / 3 people like

Hello/bonjour/holá/Olá I am in South America and do not have much opportunity to visit your wonderful photos. Please excuse my absence. I will visit when I get home. Best wishes to all Diana

8 years ago / 232 visits / 2 people like

hello everyone....I am currently in Ireland, and will go in two weeks to the UK. I was born there...many, many years ago. I have never been back, although I have travelled to some of the remotest places on the planet! So this is a seeking of origin mission...it seems bizarre I suppose, but I have al…

9 years ago / 393 visits / 2 comments / 2 people like

excuse me if I am a little absent lately. i am in Ireland and the U.K.... i will visit and comment as I am able.. amities/ hugs Diana

9 years ago / 294 visits / 1 comment / 1 person likes

Hello, friends. I am in far North East India and do not have much internet. Please excuse me if I do not visit your pages! I am exploring in remote areas. i wish you all a wonderful New Year, with peace, love, good health and happiness. I will post as I

9 years ago / 362 visits / 3 comments / 2 people like

I have just returned from a trip on a converted icebreaker along the Kamchatka Peninsula from Chuchotka - Anadyr in the North, up to the Arctic circle and the remains of the gulags, down to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskaya in the South. There were stops at the Commander Islands also. This was no luxury cr…

10 years ago / 482 visits / 1 comment / 2 people like

Hi everyone sorry...I am not visiting your pages much. I have a friend from Brazila staying and we are travelling, camping and sightseeing so I do not have time to access Ipernity very much ! I will be back to normal in around 3 weeks! best wishes to you... Diana

10 years ago / 595 visits / 10 comments / 1 person likes

I am away till 20 November in Borneo. I do not have much Internet...if I do not visit you, please excuse and understand. I will try to catch up when I return! Cheers to all Diana

11 years ago / 622 visits / 3 comments

Thank you to friends who have asked about my situation with respect to the terrible fires which my country is presently experiencing. In Australia, fires...or as we say "bushfires" are a part of life in our warmer seasons. Australia is the driest continent on earth....a giant desert with a ribbon of…

11 years ago / 1 290 visits / 11 comments / 2 people like

Today is my first and last Internet for quite a while. We have driven 3000km in three days, across the huge Nullarbor Plain.....literally no trees for several hundreds of kilometres, and the desert meets the sea in an amazing coastline of giant jagged red and yellow cliffs for over 2000 km. It is a…

12 years ago / 729 visits / 1 comment

The North of Sri Lanka was an amazing set of experiences. First of all, you are no longer in a Buddhist/Singhala landscape....it becomes very much a Christian/Hindu/Muslim world, and feels like a different country. Second....it is so militarised...with bunkers and gun emplacements every few hundred…

12 years ago / 1 025 visits / 3 comments / 1 person likes

Yesterday we arrived in Batticaloa....still rarely visited by tourists. After spending a few days with our Sr Lankan/Australian friend and family in Kandy, we have headed far away from the tourist trail. Our intention is to go up the eastern coast of Sri Lanka from here, via Trincomalee to Jaffna, t…

12 years ago / 889 visits / 3 comments

https://www.the-decorator.net/2011/05/pen ny-byrne-sugar-coated-bullets-of.html Recently, while in our national capital, Canberra, I saw an extraordinarily clever and original exhibition of political satire...in fine ceramic. It really surprised me, and is very thought provoking. I took the link ab…

13 years ago / 942 visits / 6 comments