Can you believe, Wilma has made it as far away as Australia! That has got me wondering where else in the world she has ended up. Anyhow, today, to inspire you to get out photographing your finished elephants, we have a guest post from Ellen, who comes from Perth. Her gorgeously colourful Wilma is the perfect antidote to our British weather at the moment!
Where will you take your Wilma for her photo session?! I'll probably put the elephant gallery together on Sunday evening, to give everyone a bit more time to get their elephants finished.
Bill Bryson said that Perth is the most
remote city in the World, but apparently that is not true!- Auckland apparently pips us to the post by 50km, but it
certainly feels remote sometimes with the nearest comparable city of Adelaide
being 2,104 km away as the crow flies, and closer to Dili in East Timor (2785 km) or Jakarta, Indonesia (3000 km)
than any other Australian cities like Sydney (3300 km) or our capital
city, Canberra (3100 km).
And, more to the point, its 14,500km back to
England, where most of my cousins live!
So I thought I'd show you all where I live!
Here in Perth its normally warm and sunny all year round, and we Sandgropers ( as Perth-ites are known) like nothing better than a lazy afternoon by the water, preferably with a BBQ on the go and a cold beer!
But sometimes it rains (though this is a
very freak storm for this time of year, and sadly has caused a fair bit of
chaos and one death) and we have to find other things to do, like laughing at
this crazy modern art they installed in the centre of town, or the new Perth
Arena you can just see spiking up in the background.
They have some very strange animals in this
part of the world too- though I've never seen a Kangaroo quite this shade of
red in the bush!
And since we don’t have any Koalas on the
west coast, I thought I could try and take over their evolutionary niche… What
do you think?!
I was made to be gifted to a dear friend ofEllen, but instead I'm going to be donated to a charity that provides presents
for those in need at Christmas, where I'm sure I will be loved and appreciated much
more. So I started off life to help children at Great Ormond Street, and now I can
help a kid in Perth too!
But don’t worry- I have a sibling in the
pipeline, to be made out of some funky but more age appropriate fabric we found
in the op-shop (‘Strine for
thrift/charity shop!) yesterday, so no-one will end up present-less.
Merry Christmas!
Excellent! How cool Wilma has travelled that far! :-) My Wilma is yet to be finished off...but will def arrange a crafty night soon with Liz to finish her off xx
ReplyDeleteSuch an amazing idea and I am off to get myself my very own Wilma! I have the perfect fabric in mind that was purchased from the Country living christmas fair, which was my first time on a train and my first time in London. So it will be for an amazing cause and have huge sentimental value.
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