With our friends and family in the UK and Europe experiencing sub-zero temperatures and widespread snow, ice and blizzards, and us the subtropical heat of Brisbane, it stirred the question – would you rather be too hot or too cold? This question first came up when we were living in Adelaide. It was during the […]
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I Ripped the Band-aid Off
I owe you an update on my ‘other’ relationship. It’s been great, thanks for asking, we’re getting on like a house on fire (more like a slow seepage through the cracks of a champagne fountain!) I’ve discovered that my ability to have an AFD (Alcohol Free Day) was non-existent so I have spent the last […]
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In the Doldrums
I’m kind of suffering from writer’s block but I’m not. There’s lots going on upstairs but I can’t seem to be able to sort it out enough to make something of it. For the last two months you’ve had nothing but weekly photo challenge posts from me and I’m sure this is not enough to […]
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FOMO – That’s it!
So, I’ve had a brief period of trying to drink alcohol in moderation which has and hasn’t been successful. During the week has been easy and so too having a few dry days – yay! go me. Last night Chief and I attended a black-tie gala dinner. We were greeted by waiters offering trays of […]
After finding a poem I love for my creativity journal, my next exercise was to write my own poem. Don’t overthink it. Just create an image or a moment with words. Remember, you are creative. Embrace that creativity and give it a go. In line with my most recent posts on my relationship with alcohol, […]
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Application is Essential
I scheduled my last post to be published long after I was tucked up in bed and woke the following morning with a sense of relief, knowing I’d come clean about something that had been bugging me for some time. My post had created quite a bit of reaction on my personal Facebook feed; mainly […]
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Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
This may or may not be the right forum to delve into such matters as personal relationships but it’s time I duly ‘fessed up’. You see, besides my maturing marriage I have become deeply entrenched in another long-standing relationship. We’ve known each other a long time now but it’s only in recent years that ‘things’ […]
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The Tears of Tiny
I’m offloading emotional baggage; I am cleansing my inner self. It’s been inside for over forty years. I have a wonderful friend who has been on her own spiritual journey for some years now and she is there to offer me words of wisdom, inspiration and guidance at any time if I’m ever in need. […]
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Debbie’s Hangover
This week when I was cleaning our shower room I stopped for a moment to admire an old Timothy Whites chemist bottle that we use as a ‘decorative piece’ on the windowsill. Timothy Whites was a chain of chemists, founded in the latter half of the 1800’s, incorporated in 1904 and taken over by Boots the […]
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On My Way to the MBE
Some of you good folk may have read in one of my earlier posts that my lovely Dad was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s honours list? Dad was duly notified that his official investiture invitation could arrive anytime in the next seven months and that he would dearly love me to be there […]
Waking the Wombat 