Sunday Selections #121

Welcome back to Sunday Selections!

This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to showing on our blogs.

The rules are very simple:-

1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title

2. link back to me, River, somewhere in your post

3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and see what you've posted.

4. hop on over to The Elephant’s Child to see more of her wonderful photos.

Kath and Andrew often join in as well.

I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections and this week I'm continuing with some photos of the Rundle Place development.

this is the Grenfell Street entrance to the new Rundle Place....I suppose you could call it a Mall since it has many shops in the one location.  

see that crane way up high? They're still constructing.
I'm guessing the upper floors will be office areas for all the stores down below.

I like this mannequin display. For the Mother's Day week they were all dressed in pink.

I love the shiny floors on the ground floor. (I want them in my house...)
See those white rings?

they're reflections of these lights, which I love.

I'm not sure I like the seats though. There are nicer looking ones downstairs.

the lights in the downstairs Food Hall are also circular, echoing the ones on the ground floor. I particularly like that the support posts have light rings too.

this is the Rundle Mall entrance. 

here we see the Rundle Mall entrance from the inside, with the staircase and escalators down to the food hall, which has many options for meals and snacks as well as a newsagency, a chemist and several other stores that I haven't taken notice of yet.

also downstairs is a shiny new Coles supermarket.

from the Grenfell Street entrance there are escalators that lead straight down into the supermarket.

A friend of mine transferred in from her previous store, she said it was very exciting working in a new store on its opening day, but after that it was the same old job, just a different location. 

a bird's eye view of a couple of the self-serve checkouts. They have these at both ends of the store.

this is the lower ground entrance you come to after walking through the Food Hall. 


I'll get back there one day and take more photos of the other shops on the ground and upper floors.
but next week, I'll have something different for you to look at.

No shops, I promise.

U...is for

Following on again with Toni's A-Z, "a...is for" meme, this week's letter is U

U..is for uliginous.

Bet you've never heard that before.
I know I never have. 
And if you have then all bets are off.

Uliginous, which I found in my dictionary, means>>>>

oozy, muddy, moist

damp, wet,

swampy.

and here's another swamp, just because I like the skeleton.

U...is for uliginous.

Wednesday's Words on a Friday

On Wednesdays, Delores, from A Feathered Nest has a meme which she calls  

Words for Wednesday.

She puts up a selection of six words which we then use in a short story, if we are able.

Sometimes I look at her words and nothing at all comes to  mind.

This week's words are:

1. Queasy
2. Flames
3. Blanket
4. Foul
5. Blasted
6. Pie

Here is my short story:

Sophie wrapped the blanket tighter around herself as she stared into the flames burning in the fireplace.

Vomiting always gave her the chills. She wondered what was causing this? Could it have been that blasted pie she'd eaten for dinner two nights ago?

Ben had picked them up on his way home from the footy as a surprise and she'd eaten one to please him. Maybe it had been a little..."off"?  Pies weren't her favourite food and Sophie very rarely ate one. 

Ben had eaten the other two and he seemed fine, but then he'd always had a cast iron stomach.

Sophie on the other hand was still feeling queasy and her mouth tasted quite foul in spite of the cup of tea she was sipping at.

If she wasn't better by tomorrow there'd be a visit to Doc Thompson first thing in the morning. 

just 85g will do it

85 grams a day.
That's all you need. 

What are we talking about?

Walnuts.
I like walnuts.

I read an article in the weekend paper that stated walnuts would help to protect against heart disease and would also help to lower cholesterol.
(I could use a little cholesterol lowering....)

Nice. I like walnuts. (But they're a little on the expensive side...)

Anyway, the article did state that all you need to consume is 85 grams a day.
So I added them to my shopping list and off I went, swinging my little basket as I skipped down the road.......la de da de da....

Okay, okay, I carried my bag as I walked to the shops.

I found the walnuts right where I'd expected them to be, but when I saw the cost I wondered if the little nuggets were sprinkled with gold dust.
Really? That much? I bought them anyway.
I figured at 85g a day, the bag would probably last me almost a week, so a fair enough price if they really would do what "they" claimed.

I found my kitchen scales and weighed out 85 grams of walnuts. Turns out to be about a cupful. alright then, let's munch.

The first half dozen weren't so bad, then it began to be hard going.
Really! That's a lot of walnuts to be eating all at once.
Now I'm wondering if they need to be consumed in one sitting, or can I space them out through the day. A couple with breakfast, a few in a lunch salad, a half dozen right after dinner.
Being a smaller person, not anywhere near six feet tall, maybe I don't need the 85 grams.
I could space out three servings of 20 grams.

I'll just nibble on them a few at a time until they're gone, then buy another packet. Regular consumption of even a smaller amount has to be better than not eating any at all.
Right?

Whimsical Wednesday #74

Welcome back to Whimsical Wednesday!

The day for your googled giggle that gets you over the hump that is Wednesday and sliding down into the weekend.

I had an amusing statement for this, but lost it in the Grrr! and Aaargh!! of misfiring internet connections.

what irritates you Monday

What irritates you Monday is a meme thought up by Delores from The Feathered Nest.

Here, on a Monday, we get a chance to vent our little, or not so little, things that irritate us.

Today, my irritation is....

small packets of anything that say "tear here" but then don't tear and you have to reach for the scissors to get them open.  

And fingernails that continue to split and peel even after three years.    

Aaaargh!

Sunday Selections # 120

Welcome back to Sunday Selections!

This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to showing on our blogs.

The rules are very simple:-

1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title

2. link back to me, River, somewhere in your post

3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and see what you've posted.

4. hop on over to The Elephant’s Child to see more of her wonderful photos.

Kath and Andrew often join in as well.

I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections and this week I'm continuing with some photos of the Harris Scarfe development site. 

yes, I realise it's Mother's Day and you were probably expecting photos of flowers and chocolates and breakfast in bed, but I'm sure there are plenty of those with accompanying stories on other sites. 

So sit back with your cup of tea and the box of choccies and enjoy the photos.

part of the road was blocked off for a pedestrian walkway,

so that cranes and other machinery could move in close to the building and tear it down.
Here, the roof is already gone. I hope the wonderful old windows were saved and are now being used somewhere else.

within days, just an empty block remained and we saw sides of adjacent buildings that we'd never seen before.

I particularly liked this view of stairs zig-zagging up the back of one of the buildings.

soon enough cranes were busy on the block. On the right is the Grenfell Street carpark, before it got a makeover.

scaffolding grew like mushrooms.

would you like to be way up here on a gusty day?

concrete panels followed

the central facade panels were installed while more storeys of scaffolding and construction went higher and higher behind.

early stage of the construction from the Rundle Mall side, before it got so high.

the new face of the Grenfell Street carpark. Looks pretty good don'tcha think?

Air conditioning ducts began snaking through the new building

like giant silver earthworms, and unfinished wiring hung everywhere.

a few weeks later shiny glass windows were put in.

is it ever going to stop growing?

it's looking interesting.

To be continued......