My Rural Town

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I live on the out-skirts of Geelong, and the city is a reasonable size with a population of 240,000. But here I am, virtually on the town’s northwestern back fence, and only a dead-end dirt road is outside my front door.

The back fences of north-west Geelong                                   The dirt lane outside my home.

At the end of my dirt lane is a walking path that I use frequently. I can walk to my favourite coffee venue, The Moorabool Valley Chocolate Cafe, set in a rustic homestead with a beautiful view over the Moorabool River Valley. Attached link is a poem about the cafe.   https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/cheeky-magpie/

The view over the Moorabool Valley                                        Sunset along the walking path

The featured image at the beginning of the post is of our local mountain ranges, called the You-Yangs. Here the picture is taken from Geelong’s Eastern Park/Botanical Gardens, looking across Corio Bay towards the You-Yangs.

A Slide-show of pictures from around our City By The Bay

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Ivor Steven (c)  2018

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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

29 thoughts on “My Rural Town”

    1. I enjoyed going around and taking some pic’s, I’ve taken lot’s, and I was thinking of doing a slideshow too, maybe I might update my post.

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      2. I’ll give it go, I’ve never done one, so here goes. Oh Sue could you tell Peter to look in his spam, a lot of my recent comments seem to be flying off into spam. ???

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      5. The timing worked well because I was just about to comment on his Sunday lyrics. I’ve done it now and mentioned you might be in the spam folder 😊

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      7. I love the slide show. You live in a beautiful spot Ivor 😊
        I’ve had a spot of bother with making this comment on your site too, so went to notifications instead. So you might end up with two of the same. I had the same problem on someone else’s site too.

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      8. Thanks Sue It’s only started today I think, maybe I’ll reboot, or try an app update. YEAH , that was my first go at a slide-show, oh wow, watch-out everybody, there could be Ivor photos fly everywhere, hehehe….

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  7. What a pretty area you live in. We have driven through Geelong many times over the years, but I don;t think we ever ventured out your way.

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  11. you live in such an amazing place on our earth Ivor. i loved the photo tour, i can see how inspired you get just stepping out into your back yard! were those pelicans i spotted? i loved their proud parade!

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