Spring Cleaning and Kookaburras

For several weeks we've had a pair of Kookaburras in our garden.  They make their presence felt by their raucous laughter and occasionally will come and sit on the side fence.  They sit there for quite some time staring at our compost bin.  I suspect a family of field mice have found a nice warm home there and have been spotted by these noisy birds. 

Last week our daughter was visiting from Melbourne.  We decided to clean up the attic space and found both trash and treasure.  Vogue magazines (every issue published in the 90's) were boxed and put out for recycling; soft toys and dolls, including two Cabbage Patch dolls named Ruby-Marie and Bronwyn-Meryl, were tidied up and packed away in storage boxes.

Amongst the treasure were several photo-albums that will need more attention as well as boxes of old correspondence from family across the world.  We also found this interesting vintage hat pin with a little gold-coloured Kookaburra.