Bench of the Week in Cairns

 

Click to enlarge and see the details better!

In one of the shopping centres of Cairns( see post below), we found this colourful bench.A piece of art perhaps? The photo was taken by my Dutch daughter

RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.Her friend Malyss. has shown more than 600 benches on a site called "benchesonmyway".

Bench of the Week, France,

 
 
 

Click to enlarge!
This bench is in the front garden of the family where I stayed this summer in France.It's placed near the fountain.


RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.

Bench of the Week, Tjapukai theatre

A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY BLOGGING FRIENDS!

 
 
 

Click to enlarge.These photos were taken by
my Dutch daughter

In this theatre, sitting on these benches we were watching Aborigines from Queensland dancing and performing their skills, such as fire making, finding bush tucker(food) and playing the didgeridoo.


RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.

Bench of the Week, in the snow!

 
 

Please sit down! And have a nice piece of Christmas cake and a cup of hot coffee. These are two benches in my garden.

RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.

Bench of the Week On an Australian Bench

 

Click on photos to enlarge!

We were for a visit in Queensland, Australia in 2000. This is my Dutch grandson, who was eight-years old at the time. This photo is taken by
my Dutch daughter.

Two years before, my, then pregnant, Australian daughter and I sat on that same bench, while my husband took the photo, not knowing that a year later he would pass away.


 

RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.

Bench of the Week Lavoir, Washing place In France

 
 
 

This bench of the week is in Bracieux, France. It's very old. It's part of the "lavoir"or public washing place of the town of Bracieux.It has an interesting history and it's therefore so important to preserve this place.
On 28 May 1861 the town council took into consideration to build public washing places for the sake of hygienics and health of the mothers and women professionally involved in doing the laundry .On 12 November1861 the mayor proposed to have a shelter built for the women, who were until then exposed to cold and bad weather.
The washing place was used until 1950 by only two women. The washing women were replaced by washingmachines and laundries.
here you can see how the women washed the laundry

RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.

Bench of the Week in France

 

A French Bench of a Dutch Family!
We don't leave our shoes outside the house, only clogs, but we don't wear them any more.The clogs under the bench are only symbolic and not used.

RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.

Bench of the Week My daughter on a bench in New Zealand!

 

My Australian daughter had hired a car and drove us around the South Island of New Zealand( see previous posts). Here we had a coffee stop in the Abel Tasman National Park in the north of the South Island

 

Click to enlarge photos if you want to see more details.

The children, on another bench, were enjoying their ice creams! I had an iced coffee, which was delicious!


RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.


BTW From the 17th October I will be in France for a week, so I shall only post a scheduled entry for ABC. Probably I won't be able to answer any comment or visit your blogs, but as soon as I have the opportunaty to start blogging again, I'll do so.

Bench of the Week Middachten Castle Garden

 
 

What do you think when you see a bench like that? Does it invite you to sit down and relax? It has no back and the view is not particularly exciting. Maybe somebody can tell me the purpose of this lonely bench.


RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench..

Bench of the Week A Mother's Day's Present.

 
 
 
 

Click to enlarge please!

This couch hammock is very special to me, for it was my mother's day's present in 2006. I got it from my Dutch daughter. Of course it was a great big surprise and it's very nice to sit here on a sunny day doing a sudoku puzzle, having my ten o'clock coffee and enjoy the sounds of the birds in and around the garden.


RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.