The contrast of old and new on the streets of Kyoto.

In the foreground the peaked roof of an old Japanese temple is visible over the top of trees lining a street. In the distant background a tall telecommunications tower with spire is visible.

😎 Clocking off early to get my long weekend started.

You get a pretty decent cardio workout if you decide to walk around the gardens at Versailles. So large and spread out.

A long stretch of green grass with trees along either side. The leaves on the trees are turning a red brown colour. There’s a water feature on a lake in the far distance.

Embrace the leg. 🐱

A black and white cat laying on the legs of a person wearing grey track suit pants. The legs are resting on a yellow footstool.

My nighttime beverage more often than not these days is a cup of tea rather than a glass of wine. I quite like this β€œSleepy” tea.

A glass jar of herbal tea sitting in front of a black teapot on a kitchen bench. The tea is β€œSleepy” by Kintra Foods.

When you’ve had a tooth out and still high on painkillers you too will sit and stare at the ceiling. 🐱

A black and white tuxedo cat sitting on a mat in front of a closed screen door. Her body, ears, top of her head and upper legs are black. Her belly, lower legs and nose are white. She is staring upwards with wide eyes.

Beaches at the end of the day when you get that last flare of the sun are the best.

A beach view. Sand stretches out in front of the photographer with patches of water where the tide is still running out. The sky has a band of cloud with the sun flaring a yellow orange behind it.

Went out for dinner last night before seeing a show. We popped back in afterwards to have dessert and a nightcap. I went with the vanilla bean panna cotta with passion fruit and shortbread biscuit as the dessert least likely to need me to loosen my belt.

A vanilla white coloured soft almost cylindrical dessert sitting in a shallow plate with passion fruit pulp surrounding it and layered on top. Two small round shortbread biscuits are beside it and the plate is lightly dusted in flour.

A day in the life. Dinner and a show. Bananaland as part of the Brisbane Festival.

A poster advertising a musical comedy - Bananaland.

Live long and prosper. πŸ––πŸ»

A lapel badge in the shape of the Vulcan split finger Live Long and Prosper gesture. The hand is in the LGBT rainbow colours.