Friday, 14 May 2010

Yummy Mummies


Bronte is an expensive suburb to buy in to. A modest house will cost a million dollars. Nevertheless, there are lots of young families in the area - often well-paid professional couples. The women in these partnerships are often referred to, rather disparigingly, as "Yummy Mummies" - young, sexually attractive, hip, and stylish. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie and Kate Beckinsale are supposedly archetypal yummies. The opposite of a yummy mummy is a slummy mummy.

Whether they're yummy or not, there's certainly a lot of Mummys around Bronte, as this line of strollers attests.

(This is an older photo that has been in 'the vault' since a warmer time of the year; you may have noticed a bit of a fall-off in the blog lately - due to a very busy time at work, mostly, getting home exhausted and not having as much time to attend to bloggy matters! Apologies!)

Monday, 10 May 2010




Riding one of these looks like a whole heap of fun; not sure what they are - they look like a type of skimboard. If anyone knows the real name I'd love to know.

Saturday, 8 May 2010


The gorgeous lagoon at Wattamolla in the Royal National Park on the southern fringe of Sydney.

Friday, 7 May 2010

Surf beach, Palmie


The beach, lighthouse and headland at Palm Beach would be familiar to anyone who watches TV soapie Home and Away - it's where it is filmed.

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Heading home


On the other side of the narrow sand spit from Pittwater is the surf beach (Palm Beach). This fellow emerged over the dune with his board, and then walked out to his tinny (that's an aluminium boat) to head home across Pittwater somewhere.

Monday, 3 May 2010

Seasonal bounty


Autumnal bounty displayed outside the Boat Shed Cafe at Palm Beach.

Sunday, 2 May 2010

Hedging your bets

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A girl is often not quite sure what to wear.
So on a beautiful autumn day, when the temperature starts off around 14 degrees and reaches a high of 26.5, you need to be prepared - in a winter coat and scarf . . .bare legs, and thongs on your feet!

Saturday, 1 May 2010