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Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot.

Posted in nature, Perth City, Poetry, Writing, tagged FrancesMacaulayForde, PerthSweltered, POEM:SunKissed on January 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Today Perth reached 44.4 degrees just before 2pm – 36.7 degrees by 11am and the 3rd hottest day for January on record.

I’ve copied one of my sister-in-law’s excellent beach photos to show you what is just down the road from here… but you won’t find me there – I don’t go out in extreem heat!

Everything in the garden is wilted – I’ve just replenished the bowls of water for the birds again and given all my pot plants a good soaking. I know the birds will find the bowls and take a dip later… to cool down. Whether I can save my plants is another thing entirely… that sun was brutal today.

Sun kissed

Like a cobra,

I am coiled

ready to strike

any who dare

limit my growth.

Germinating new

species hidden

deep in the earth

waiting to bloom

coloured with sun.

Tensioned taut,

fire ravaged, I am

nature harnessed

before springing

back to life.

@FrancesMForde #POEM:SunKissed #PerthSweltered

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Toto & Africa…

Posted in Africa, Animals, Music, Video Poems, tagged BBCMotionGallery, FrancesMacaulayForde, NorthernRhodesia, Toto&Africa on January 4, 2015| 1 Comment »

Can’t resist sharing this fabulous combination of beautiful sounds and pictures from the BBC Motion Gallery. It takes me right back to my childhood home of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia:

#Toto&Africa #NorthernRhodesia #Zambia #BBCMotionGallery

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The Blue Duck

Posted in COMMUNITY, Love, nature, Poetry, tagged CottesloeBeachWA, FrancesMacaulayForde, HeatherLocklear, HeathLedger, IndianTeaHouse, TheBlueDuck on January 2, 2015| 3 Comments »

My daughter and I ate pancakes and drank tea at The Blue Duck on iconic Cottesloe Beach today – she needed a special treat. Although the breeze was strong, we enjoyed listening to the very small waves kissing the beach.

It’s the same beach where Heather Locklear married the good-looking one from Kiss, quite a few years ago now.

Also more recently stars from all over the world formed a circle in the surf at sunset, to say goodbye to WA actor Heath Ledger, following his wake at the famous Indiana Tea House.

The Blue Duck

Three container ships

queue on Fremantle’s

horizon; Gage roads.

Two lifeguards in

red and yellow patrol

Cottesloe beach.

One blue writer

drinks inspiration from

white cup and rolling surf.

@FrancesMForde #FrancesMacForde #TheBlueDuck #CottesloeBeachWA #IndianaTeaHouse #HeathLedger #HeatherLocklear (Weird they have the same initials…)