I’ve been wondering for quite sometime (a few years in fact) as to why the younger generation don’t double space after ending a sentence with a full-stop while I do. I learnt to type at school back in the early ’80s. We used Olivetti typewriters and learned about home keys and carbon paper. Woe betide anyone […]
I have been wrestling with a point of Australian social etiquette (yes, there really is!) for almost the entire eleven years we’ve been living here and I’ve never been brave enough to ask anyone about it. Now that I’ve reached that age of not caring what one says, I thought I’d air what’s been bugging […]
This weekend our son flew up from Adelaide and on the way home from the airport, we stopped in our local suburb, Paddington to grab a spot of lunch. Paddington is a suburb just a stones throw from the centre of Brisbane and has some of the steepest streets and roads in the area. I was […]
Apparently I need to write more; I’ve had some requests to post more often but two things hold me back; time and inspiration. I’m certainly a writer who’s been waiting for inspiration to smack her in the face but apparently that’s all wrong. An article published on the Australian Writers Centre’s Facebook page, by The […]
Have you ever had to sleep on the wrong side of the bed? After you’ve staked a claim to your-side-of-the-bed for over twenty seven years, just imagine how odd it would feel to sleep on ‘the other side’.
I am fifty – FIFTY! I feel like I’m confessing to being an addict. I’ve been dreading this moment and on the eve of the big day, feel like bursting into tears. I can’t believe that I have reached this milestone age – my life has flashed by and I’m on the downward slope – […]
I can’t move my legs without pain; mainly when descending stairs or sitting down. A deep, muscular pain, rendering my legs heavy and shaky. A good pain apparently, of a self-inflicted nature, although she made me do it – with a wide, beautiful grin on her pretty, young face; she told me I wouldn’t be […]
Hi Rosemary, it’s been a while since you and I left Adelaide and headed off in opposite directions – you to Perth and me to Brisbane. It’s been a while too since we caught up over the phone so, we have just met for a virtual coffee – probably at the usual haunt. If we […]
(I came across this post from last year which I hadn’t quite finished writing but really wanted to share with you) Never tempt fate! So I did; just passing comment that we hadn’t had a spider in the house for ages which was followed by recounting the time shortly after we had arrived in South […]
I have a dilemma; a self-indulgent Good Friday dilemma and it’s this – where am I going to find a decent coffee tomorrow morning? My regular café is closed (I’ve already checked with them) and I know it will be the same EVERYWHERE. With our trusty Gaggia coffee machine in storage (I didn’t think that one […]
Waking the Wombat