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moving right along…
Is the world actually getting more complicated these days or is it just us? Aside from Don’s diagnosis and the complications that brings, I recently needed to send parcels of gifts that I had intended to hand carry to the US when we visited…which would have been next week had we not had to cancel.…
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the good, the bad and the ugly footwear…
You know when you start out hating something but then at some point you begin to see the yang to the yin? I think maybe everything is really like this but all of us don’t really need to experience it every time with everything. Some things we are already easier with and can see the…
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lest we forget…
This morning I woke just before dawn. It is Anzac Day here in Australia. Normally I would go for a walk and greet the day with gratitude for my Dad and all the other many, many men and women who served the armed forces in their country, many who gave their lives for democracy and…
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something’s afoot…
On day six after foot surgery I finally decided to chance washing my hair. Despite the gruesome look of my bruised toes, and the prospect of standing for fifteen minutes. It was as if there is some kind of inverse force telling me, if I couldn’t wash my feet, I needed my head to feel…
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one foot in front of the other…
I have been dreading foot surgery for weeks. I would have been dreading it for longer but have only known I needed it for a month or so. While I was dreading it, I wasn’t particularly worried about the outcome, more the preparation for having to travel 1500k (1000 miles) to Adelaide to have it…
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ding, ding, ding…
Life is strange at times…maybe you can explain it to me. Recently I visited my Podiatrist. She has helped me enormously with my problematic feet. Since I was a little girl my feet have caused me problems off and on. I have narrow feet and they are scrawny (inherited) and I have fallen arches. Not…
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what we have to lose…
I don’t often write about the actual town in which we live. It is not indicative of what I value, just that I find smaller, everyday events more interesting to write about. But today I want to share a few things with you. For those of you who follow national news, you will be aware…
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the gift of the little frog…
After the good rain we had in February…rain that washed out the roads and the railway line and disrupted our lives even more than Covid…the rain that caused the river to flow and replenish the basin, the trees to be washed clean of red dust, and the grasses to grow lush and green and then…
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a year of small things…
I’ve written on this topic a few times in the past, but I hope you can stand a little more. I’ve written half a dozen draft posts over recent months, and haven’t published a single one. It’s very hard to write with perspective about things that are ongoing. This has been a challenging year for…
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the luck of it…
It was unusually cold here in Alice this July, the coldest on record. Having mentioned the low temps and heavy frost to a few people and received their surprised reactions, I thought I’d give you a little look into the cool side of life in Alice. For several mornings the temps have been below 0…
