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		<title>New Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For future blogs, go to http://christineallen.blogspot.com This site seems to have an easier format for techno-dummies like me.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christineallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=617345&amp;post=12&amp;subd=christineallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For future blogs, go to <a href="http://christineallen.blogspot.com">http://christineallen.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p>This site seems to have an easier format for techno-dummies like me.</p>
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		<title>Last Day of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Sydney in a holiday mood, ie. just about everything closed, we went for a walk in nearby Centennial Park. This is one of several large green spaces that function as the lungs of the inner city. There are separate &#8230; <a href="http://christineallen.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/last-day-of-the-year/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christineallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=617345&amp;post=10&amp;subd=christineallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With Sydney in a holiday mood, ie. just about everything closed, we went for a walk in nearby Centennial Park. This is one of several large green spaces that function as the lungs of  the inner city. There are separate routes throughout the park for cars, cyclists, pedestrians&#8230;and a special track for horseriders. You can rent a bicycle or a horse if you don&#8217;t have your own.<br />
Vast lawns dotted with palm trees or eucalypts comprise most of the space, but there are several small lakes supporting an assortment of ducks, moorhens, ibis, swans, and even a few pelicans.<br />
There&#8217;s a scruffy rose garden, confirming for me once again how much I dislike hybrid teas planted in mulch, and some large circular beds done in high Victorian style with agaves, phormiums and grasses. A short border holds the inevitable agapantus and two massive brugmansias in full bloom.</p>
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		<title>centennialpark.JPG</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[centennialpark.JPG Originally uploaded by canadachristina. A typical scene in Centennial Park, with seagulls on the grass under the gum trees.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christineallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=617345&amp;post=11&amp;subd=christineallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>A typical scene in Centennial Park, with seagulls on the grass under the gum trees.<br /></p>
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		<title>Golden Orb Spider</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Golden Orb Spider Originally uploaded by canadachristina. Here&#8217;s the spider I&#8217;m referring to below.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christineallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=617345&amp;post=9&amp;subd=christineallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s the spider I&#8217;m referring to below.<br /></p>
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		<title>Agapanthus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agapanthus Originally uploaded by canadachristina. Agapanthus is the universal choice of plant for roadside, boulevard or driveway edging. Or any other place that the Australian homeowner wants to decorate with easy-care vegetation. The leaves are strong, structural and evergreen. When &#8230; <a href="http://christineallen.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/agapanthus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christineallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=617345&amp;post=8&amp;subd=christineallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Agapanthus is the universal choice of plant for roadside, boulevard or driveway edging. Or any other place that the Australian homeowner wants to decorate with easy-care vegetation. The leaves are strong, structural and evergreen. When the flowers bloom as they are doing now, their huge heads float gracefully above the foliage like explosions of blue or white fireworks. They grow so well here, standing twice as tall as their feeble relatives in Vancouver gardens, that it&#8217;s no wonder they are so popular. I saw an ad in the local newspaper offering divisions for $1 a plant, cheaper for a bulk purchase. Hard to resist! <br />
When I went out to photograph a swath of them around the corner from my sister&#8217;s house in the leafy northern suburb of Turramurra, I noticed this dramatic spider strung between two sturdy stems. Rising from deep memory comes the name of golden orb spider, although it&#8217;s so hazy a recollection that it may be partly, or even entirely, wrong.<br /></p>
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		<title>Sunburnt country</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the huge campaign urging Aussies to &#8220;slip on a shirt, slap on a hat and slop on the sunscreen&#8221;, nobody&#8217;s doing it. In the city, men are sweltering in dark suits and ties, but no hats. In the suburbs, &#8230; <a href="http://christineallen.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/sunburnt-country/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christineallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=617345&amp;post=5&amp;subd=christineallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Despite the huge campaign urging Aussies to &#8220;slip on a shirt, slap on a hat and slop on the sunscreen&#8221;, nobody&#8217;s doing it. In the city,  men are sweltering in dark suits and ties, but no hats. In the suburbs, young women are wearing pretty, sleeveless sundresses, perhaps with sunscreen, but again no hats. It&#8217;s the schoolchildren who are paying attention, or more likely being required to. Younger ones of both sexes wear broadbrimmed cotton hats in yellow, green or navy; high school girls wear flattering panamas with a band bearing their school crest; high school boys wear&#8230;..haven&#8217;t noticed what boys wear yet. All of them wear school uniform of course &#8211; none of that freedom to wear jeans and skimpy tops, just like all of the other kids, that so characterizes Canadian schoolgoers. </p>
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