blog posting update

Okay I have been really seriously remiss about posting on the blog..I don't want to give it up but I'm lacking adventures - or interesting things to share - I'm in a bit of a creative slump - I think its my version of post covid lockdown!!! I am reading masses and would recommend The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne and also We Begin at the End By Chris Whittaker...
In between I've read a lot of dross but at the moment it seems to be my main pastime!!!

So back to the blog...I post on Instagram @rubystarrs quite regular - its easy just use my phone and I don't have to get my computer out so I am going to - for now - repeat those posts on here just to keep this alive while I either find the essence to carry on or lay it to rest completely - so mainly pictures - probably more interesting than my endless ramblings...

Incidentally I also laboured through A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara which I thought in places was beautifully written but mostly depressing and hard to read - not my cup of tea.

I've made massive amounts of jam and pickled onions - so I'm not being idle just lacking sharing enthusiasm.....

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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