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The pub.
I’ve been holding out on you. I had this little story bubbling away in the deep recesses of my brain. It happened on our recent trip to South Australian wine country. Our first and second nights in the Coonawarra region, we stayed at a small set of holiday apartments called ‘Must at Connawarra‘. Being tired…
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Re-blogging: The Man at the Gate
Dear Friends, I am doing something I have seldom done, I’m referring you to another blog that I regularly read. For those of you who are sick and tired of being sold things you didn’t ask for, you will enjoy it. For my part, I have to say, I pretty much follow Celi’s health plan,…
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Bits and bobs, odds and sods
We have left Ohio and are once again en route. (Wait until you see where we turn up next!) No visit to my childhood home is ever complete. There are always people we don’t see, things we don’t do. That is life. We always have a few laughs and see a few things, and eat…
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Oxford
What do you suppose the chances are that there would be a place in both Oxford, Ohio, and Oxford, England by the name of The White Rabbit? Last week I would have guessed pretty long odds on that happening. But today I have learned that the author of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, (whose real…
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How the Woman Got Her Man (and a new country in the process…)
Subtitle: Moving to Australia: The Prequel/part 1 As I write this during a brief visit to Darwin, it is nearly incomprehensible how I came to live here thirty years ago. Perhaps if I recount the story to you, it will seem more real… Don and I grew up in the same little town in southern…
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Finke follow-on
To those of you who are interested… the Finke race finishes today but for our Chad it finished late yesterday. He had a crash about 40k into the 240k first leg and injured his shoulder (the one he injured very badly several years ago). Keen to finish, he struggled on, trying to tightly hold the…
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‘Plan B’
Two years ago when we were in Paris we had the good fortune to discover the Musee d’Orsay closed. What’s that I say? In fact it was to have reopened that very day, after recent renovations, had it not been for an industrial dispute that kept it closed. Of course, initially, we (especially I) were…
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What I See From My Back Doorstep
I’m new to reading this blogger but she has inspired me to participate in a ‘back door’ challenge. Cecilia @ thekitchensgarden has asked her fellowship of bloggers to photograph what lies outside their back door and post it onto our blogs so that we can share what it is we see just outside our back…
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Postal Service Anyone?
In Australia one must post a card or letter at a post box or a post office. There is no home pick up as there is in the USA. So, this morning, even though I had a stamp on the card I was sending, a little niggle sent me inside the post office to double…
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Feeding an ego.
The ego loves to complain and feel resentful. It loves to feel superior. What it cannot abide is indifference. It has come to my realisation in recent years that most troubles between humans come from our inability to control our own egocentric behaviour and our reactions to it in others. Ego is a necessary part…
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