Buderim Pioneer Cottage

 On what was a fairly dull and dreary day

 I decided to pop in to see the Buderim Pioneer Cottage

 before I did my shopping up there today...I wonder if this wonderful bloom is part of the nasty Datura family? It looks a bit like it, but oh so pretty.

there was a wonderful lassiandra flowering outside too

 It was all rather like an old historical museum really

loved the old gramophone..

 The young couple who bought the land and obviously built the old cedar cottage must have had a large number of children,

 as they had built a narrow set of stairs leading up to a couple of attic bedrooms..

this children's cot looks rather like the one that my Mum had for all of us. I think my older sister inherited it, I wonder if she still has it?

 the old kitchens are rather classic...

 though undoubtedly there are still some of these grand old wood stoves around, and kettles in use, in many a country kitchen today...

It doesn't seem that long ago that my mother in law was cooking on her old stove, though I guess that is a little while ago now...and once upon a time we had a house with an old recessed kitchen like this one once; it didn't last long before we modernized the place though!!


And apologies if anyone comes looking for bird Challenge photos here on the weekend. I haven't been able to get a bird to sit still long enough for me. I am unused to my new surrounds, and have had a few grandchildren around. We did try putting up a bird bath beside the window when I was down in Melbourne, but no birds availed themselves of it unfortunately. I will keep trying nevertheless. No doubt I need a special lens for my camera.