The musings of an Aussie viewing the World waist high .... from a wheelchair
yes, I’m here. I went home to Orange — the kitchen goodbye and other matters. It was freezing. The food we ate out was good; wintery and clever as required. My food was I think reasonable but a couple of missing ingredients meant that I was good enough to be flexible (stew turned into stir [...]
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I’d be interested to get photos of readers view from wherever they are and post them on the blog in a series. Maybe put a collage of them up in a header for a while. Anyway, what do you think? Possibly Related Posts: heading to cold A few random facts about me just [...]
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I’ve got a few blog posts “in the wind”, as it were. But I don’t really have the energy to work on them at the moment and I wanted to put something up tonight. So in the shadows of other great people have done this, here are 25 random things about me at the [...]
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I never learnt to play like this. via Happy Catholic Possibly Related Posts: heading to cold Saturday Snap: The view from down here A few random facts about me Saturday Snap: Signature hat the cost of fine eyes
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I’ve just decided the blog needs some more pictures, so a post on Saturday will be a photo taken by or in rare cases taken of me. My literal view from down here. This hat just needs to live on my head from now on. Bought during a recent shopping trip from Rubi Shoes in [...]
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Overhead on the bus part of a discussion by three youngish American visitors. “I did not expect to run out of mascara.” “It was too expensive. I’m not going to pay $20 for it. I can get it for $4 at home”. Wow no wonder Carrie Bradshaw on a writer’s salary could look so good [...]
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I’ve had a quiet few days since getting back from Orange. I found the whole coach thing great as my previous post explained. It was great to have an opportunity to look out the window at the world going past. The fuss level of the coach company was nice and low — although it was [...]
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Having dinner last night with friends in the food court of our major shopping centre referenced here. As the lift doors opened, I was horrified to be greeted by three gold reindeer! But it’s only October. My mother’s birthday is mid-November and I used to object if I saw Christmas decorations before her birthday. I [...]
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This last weekend was a little about history, a little about tradition and a lot about courage. A saint was made; Australia’s first, and an engineering feat was celebrated, some 50 years after construction. The saint, the first one I’ve been conscious of as a catholic was Mary “of the holy cross” Mackillop, an 18th-century [...]
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