A Year On

I can barely believe that I’ve now been blogging a year

Last year on May 21st 2009 I put up my first post and from that acorn here I am 150 posts on

100 Aker Wood and the Acorn

As outlined in my About Us page I love landscape, maps and journaling ~

Landscape, maps & journalling

To this end I have written about the wonderful Australian bush in the region where I live…

Grass Trees

And Scotland where I spent March & April this year watching the spring blossom…

Primroses and Celendine

…from winter’s icy grasp…

Posts with maps in them…

Mud Map

Andjournaling ideas

We're here ~ Where are you?

Last September, to emphasis how a journal transcends time, I started a series on September 27th reproducing journal extracts on the day they had been written 131 years previously recounting the voyage of a Mr A Whelan as he sailed aboard an iron clipper called the Hesperides from London, to his new life in Australia, landing in Melbourne December 30th 1878.

As there were a hefty 97 entries, I then pulled out 10 posts that I felt epitomized the trip in aSummary of the Voyage, which included a close encounter with an iceberg, throwing a cat overboard for a good wind, and rough weather where waves washed into the living areas setting their cake afloat around the cabin!