After two glasses of champers i decided to say something! Now! Now, please don’t cringe. I need to ask… Has anybody noticed how bravery has taken a back seat to this era of covid? I’m just curious. I personally have lost a lot of my courage over the last 3 years. I ask myself is […]

This missive is on a serious note. I have been dealing (or trying to) with a husband who has a serious Illness. The reason I’m writing this is not to be pitied but to show how the people around us can strengthen and help us endure the bad, bad things that happen in our lives. […]

I wrote a little ditty; let me know if it’s pretty🤣. Here goes: Rain Oh! RainGo away28 plus daysIs enoughOk!All of us want to go outAnd play. GO AWAY! GO AWAY!!!at least til another dayWe crave the sunWe crave the dryWe pray no leeches and mossiesSwim by. Just some dry days, is that too muchTo […]

Well not directly, anyway. It is all the hysteria surrounding the world’s Covid19 story. The article below is what has upset me. I feel like Peter Finch in the movie Network, screaming “I’m As Mad As Hell, And I’m Not Going To Take This Anymore!” https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/health/seven-blood-clot-deaths-in-the-uk-after-astrazeneca-vaccine/news-story/c9f9547573a55ca8a8050fcb1e9a883f Isn’t the covid issue is bad enough. Especially, for […]

Though I’m speaking from personal experience, I know for a fact I am not alone. It happens all the time, when a loved one choses a lifes partner and it turns out this new person doesn’t want to be in or of your family. I have witnessed this phenomena time and time again. I cannot […]

Am I back? You ask, well I think I am. So there ner! What to write? Mmmmm… I have been busy, just not writing busily. To be honest I have done everything under the sun to avoid putting pen to paper. Why? That’s a FIIK! I have been in the covid fear zone ( as […]

Can you feel it? I can? The air is clearer, the birds are louder – so are the cats. My hair is thicker, so is the hubby😜. My skin is itching to be freed and the need to get up and dance is almost overtaking my poor clapped out body’s normal vegetative state. Why I […]

Its 5.30 am. I have woken up to the sound of laughing jackasses, a bunch of Kookaburras I call the bully boys. It’s dark, even dawn has not woken up yet. But the bully boys, the cats and I are all up. I make a coffee. The sound of animals having their say about the […]

I just don’t get it! What’s the deal with ’to wear or not to wear?’ MASKS!!!!!!! Covid is not an STD! (mind you – there are condoms for that and you don’t hear the comments ’oh! I only ride bare back’ anymore. People got used to them). So… PUT YOUR BLOODY MASKS ON. Trust me…none […]

I am feeling Blah today! Rare for me post surgery. I think I am bored! Though I’m not sure. It is rare for me to be bored. I really have no idea of boredom as a concept. As a consequence, I have decided to let the feeling wash over me. You know as a sort […]

I’m really conflicted! Sad and happy at the same time. My son is leaving home. I have found that I’m not alone in having a late leaver. Several people I know have children still at home over the age of twenty-seven. There have been several reasons given for them not leaving home, but the main […]

Does anyone else think they are a genius? I can’t be alone in this. I mean just listen to my theories and you know I have solved the world’s problems? I’ll give you an example of one such thought that makes me realise I am on a par with Einstein. And it’s all due to […]

I saw the specialist yesterday. My metal neck – is fine and dandy. A joke I’ve been dying to use since it’s my Dr’s name. 🤪 I have been given medical permission to go off and live my life to the fullest. Woohoo. But just exactly does that mean? I already have bright pink and […]

It’s 8 am Sunday morning. 7 degrees Celsius. Cats are asleep, hubby is asleep, the grown son is asleep. All is quiet. Except for me and the local pterodactyls (sulphur-crested cockatoo’s). I think the unique sound they emit- sounds prehistoric, I can imagine the pterodactyls flying overhead and screeching before swooping down and knocking off […]

Ok! So! I have this computer nagging me to write something for my blog. It sends statistics and messages to Facebook to let me know just how little I’m feeding this monster. Unfortunately, it lets everyone else know this fact too. I ask you, oh blog! Don’t you understand the nature of writing? I require […]

Just lately I have not had a lot to say. I think this is because not only have I been in covid-19 lockdown, I’ve also been recuperating from my neck fusion surgery. Neither of these options for living are much fun. But, at least having to do the two together is a good thing in […]

Ok! I’m hearing a lot about the world going to “Hell in a handbasket”. By the way, where did this saying originate and what does it mean, really? I would assume it means that it doesn’t take much – just a small amount to upset the worlds equilibrium. What a load of rubbish. Is it […]

2020 is the year of my emancipation, both physical and psychological. Definition of emancipate. transitive verb. 1 : to free from restraint, control, or the power of another especially : to free from bondage. The first is my emancipation from the past. I am finally free from the power my very dysfunctional family had over […]

It’s funny how motivation and optimism waver when we don’t feel well. Why you ask, is that? I’m finding exactly this, with the disease I have, (no it’s not leprosy). I’m finding my mind, as well as my body, is for want of a better word… totally exhausted. I have what is called OPLL. This […]

There was a time when I did not drive. I was almost totally reliant on my husband chauffering me around, especially in Queensland as I didn’t know the public transport system- such as it was. Well! One day we were driving along the gold coast, following his brother’s car – he, supposedly knew the way […]

How to sleep on this fucking long haul flight? I don’t know, I give up. I’m finding my classical music soothing and it has helped for about an hour. My eyes look like Sherlock Holmes “Hound of the Baskerville”, and feel as dry as the Gobi desert. Instead of a much needed sleep I’ve decided […]

A year ago I wrote my very first poem. It is a somewhat immature and childish one, and it was written as an exercise in letting out emotions and feelings that an author should tap into, especially when trying to be honest. I decided that I would be brave, and put it on my site […]

This week a dear friend said I should keep writing a journal. And since I’ve set up this web site I thought ”what the hey” ”bite the bullet” and ”go for it.” (mind you I think she meant a private journal). The problem for me is that I (like most people in this world) feel […]

I have been quiet because I have had nothing to say. Today I decided I would look at what makes a narcissist. This word is bandied about by everyone and their dog. I got curious and looked it up. A Narcissist is an extremely selfish person overly concerned with their appearance. Well! There goes just […]

Ok, so I’m 60- just. Being this age makes one wonder about all sorts of personal things. In the past, I have looked after all my loved ones and at times neglected me. Being 60 I realise it’s time to reflect on the past and fix (I hope) the present. My present is influenced by […]

I am on a flight going back to Sydney after a weird weather week in Melbourne. The day we landed it was 12 degrees C. Yesterday it was 35 degrees. There has been rain, wind, sunshine, thunder and lightning, humidity. I am wondering if this has always been so with Melbourne? There have always been […]