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24 February 2021Leave a Comment

You may notice that the Facebook icon is no longer at the top of this page. Facebook (or some unsophisticated rogue program of theirs) decided to block my public page last week. I’ve been thinking about whether to continue with that page and have now decided to delete it. I’ll be posting more here on […]

Weekend reading

19 February 2021Leave a Comment

The current Facebook debacle in Australia reinforces something that we already knew – we have no control over the availability of content on sites we don’t own. It’s a message that hit some Australian users with force yesterday when Facebook stripped their pages. With that in mind, I’m starting a new feature here – weekend […]

Stepping gently into 2021

3 January 2021Leave a Comment

We’ve slipped quietly into another month, as summer progresses. Thankfully, there is no blistering heat here, just plenty of gentle rain. My garden sends its thanks by thriving. Growth is luxuriant and we are surrounded by green. Simple acts sustain us. Tending the garden, recording the levels captured in our rain gauge, reading, watching stories […]

Online events? Yes please!

22 November 2020Leave a Comment

One of the beneficial side-effects of travel restrictions and the desire to stay home as much as possible is that I have attended many more events than I would have pre-pandemic. Have you taken advantage of this? I’m grateful to the many organisations that have redesigned their programs for digital participants instead of in-person ones. […]

How to simplify life

19 November 2020Leave a Comment

Sometimes pulling together all the threads of our lives seems totally overwhelming. I know I often have so many decisions to make – some large but mostly small – that I become paralysed with indecision. That’s not how I want to live my life. So, on a regular basis, I simplify and pare back. It’s […]

What a difference a year makes

25 October 20204 Comments

One year ago today, the removalists packed all our possessions into their van and drove over 100 kilometres to our new home. We each drove our cars, packed to the limit with (mostly) my pot plants and followed them south, away from Sydney to the Southern Highlands. After everything had been off-loaded and the removalists […]

March blues

17 March 2020Leave a Comment

Well March has gone downhill fast, hasn’t it? How are you all feeling? Anxious, unsure of the future, and trying to stay calm? Or is that just me? (Four questions in a row, that’s a barrage!) Take a big breath and enjoy this photo of pretty flowers I cut from my garden this morning. It’s […]

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