Oh this is going to be painful… This week I finalised the Reading Journal Notebook that I created and ordered a printed proof from Amazon to arrive before I publish it. It’s known as a ‘low content’ book in that there’s not much text in it. This is a surprise for me as I usually […]
Changing Ways
My husband and I are thinking about going overseas next year. We haven’t been on any long holidays (albeit for a weekend away to Inverloch and Castlemaine nearby or a week with family in Canberra) since 2018 (I went overseas to a conference in 2020). So it’s fair to say that we are both hanging […]
Flâneur Friday ~ Patterson Lakes
Yesterday I thought I’d take a short trip down to Patterson Lakes. It’s a suburb about twenty minutes drive from my place inland near the Patterson River. The entire suburb consists of canals and waterways with the houses each having a small jetty and a boat. It reminded me of being in Queensland on holiday. […]
Spending Time with Mum
In the last week, I started going out again during the day. Christmas, and the week between that and New Year, was quiet and I didn’t feel like leaving home at all. I preferred to be holed up at home and spending long hours on the couch reading. I became a hermit reading lots of […]
Happy New Year!
I can’t believe another year down. Where did the time go? In 2024, I kept a daily diary where I wrote down what I did, where I went and what happened each day. Let’s just say there was a lot of golf and reading going on… I started the year optimistically with the goal of […]
Visit to New and Old Parliament House in Canberra
Yesterday Andrew and I decided to have a look at Parliament House. We know someone who works here so it was a chance to get a tour behind the scenes, away from public areas and see what the staff see and do. It’s such a fascinating place to go and do a tour to learn […]
Futuro House
Today Andrew and I took a tour of the University of Canberra in the northern part of the city thanks to our niece who is studying there. She guided us around the campus, in and out of student union and faculty buildings so that Andrew could reminisce about his time there. Through the tour, we […]
Creating a Reading Journal
One of the things I’ve been doing in my spare time is creating a Reader’s Journal. I enjoy reading and writing my notes into my journal and I figured, “Why not share what I do?” So for the last week, I planned out the entire annual journal and what will go on each page. It […]
New Book Review: Home by Toni Morrison
A Week of Golf and Cleaning
Last week, the ladies from our golf club, my 2022 Women Into Golf Program, all decided to head to 13th Beach Golf Club at Barwon Heads to play two rounds of golf over two days. I’m so happy I participated in this 6 month program that not only has helped my golf but it now […]
Quiet Life and Spring Days
It’s been quiet at home. After we put down Pud, I didn’t want to leave the house for over a week. I spent most of my days writing in my journal, cleaning the house and packing away all his things away into the garage. I also walked a lot at a nearby park. I cleaned […]
Rest Your Paws Pud
We had to say goodbye to our darling boy this morning. We are devastated and heartbroken that he left us so soon. Unfortunately his health deteriorated and it was only going to get worse. We didn’t want him to suffer. We found out that he had an aggressive osteosarcoma that had nearly eaten through his […]
Pud
Our cat Pud has had a difficult time since May. He’s been one sick little cat but we are trying to get his health issues sorted so he can have a comfortable life as long as possible. Yesterday the vet tells us that they may have got the original diagnosis of megacolon wrong when an […]
Jaunt Around Melbourne University
It’s Seniors Week this week with a variety of different events around the state celebrating our seniors, health and ageing. Seniors can travel free on public transport all month. I asked my mother what she’d like to do this week and one place she always wanted to visit was to see the futuristic car park […]
Keeping Warm in Winter for Cheap
She’s got the right idea! Although I don’t have a sleeping bag, this year, during winter, I wrapped myself up in a heavy pure wool blanket that I bought in Scotland many years ago. On my feet, I had on a pair of my thick knitting wool socks and a hot water bottle. In fact, […]
Trips to Animal Emergency
Over the last few days when Melbourne was gripped by footy Grand Final fever, we spent it waiting at our vets and then later, to Animal Emergency to get Pud the care he needed. Over time you get to notice the change in behaviours of your pet. We noticed that he wasn’t using his kitty […]
Things Are Pretty Bad
Walking around various local suburbs going about my normal day, it’s fair to say that things have deteriorated. ~ Rubbish is in the streets everywhere ~ Pot holes on our roads that go unrepaired (this annoys me because it destroys my car wheels) ~ Police cars with graffiti on them (signs of protest made by […]
Lazy Sunday Afternoon Pretending I’m in Hawaii Golfing
Okay, so we can’t travel at the moment because everything is so expensive and we are waiting until Andrew retires in January 2026 BUT I can still pretend… This afternoon when the sun came out, I decided to head out to our backyard under the wonderful paperbark tree (which is 53 years old) to try […]
What Would the World Be Like If We Didn’t Have Covid?
That’s the question that my husband asked me last night. We were watching the news which had a story about how the Melbourne City Council is trying to entice workers back into the city. Our city is still feeling the effects of the long lockdown of 2020 where it felt we were all in our […]
Brute Force Spam Attacks
(I just looked at this photo and saw that he’s holding up a sign that says, ‘Stop and Pray’. Ha! Now that I’ve inserted it into the blog, I can’t be bothered removing it and replacing it with something else. I’d pray that these annoying spammers have their server farms zapped and blown up in […]