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Family

My Dream Reader

Should my dream reader be someone famous?  Someone I aspire to? Or just someone who I want to say cooee, I’m here to.  When I first started my blog, I thought I would be imparting words of wisdom and advice to people in the same boat as we were in almost ten years ago, when […]

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Challenges

Tuesday’s A to Z Challenge – ‘U’ words – Under The Jetty

Today’s  Blogging 101 challenge was to try a blog event and I was immediately hooked by Tuesday’s A to Z Challenge. I took this photograph when holidaying in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.  I was underneath the jetty.  We had just arrived by boat at this beautiful tiny island not even on the map.  It was magical!

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Aussie Life

Snaps from Our Place – Blogging 101: A New Posting Style

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Family

Salad Days – 70’s Child

Is there a period in your own personal life that you think of as the good old days? Tell us a story about those innocent and/or exciting times (or lack thereof) – from the Daily Prompt, 18 November. How timely this prompt is – I immediately started to think of those good old days when I was a child […]

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Aussie Life

Blogging Community Inspiration

One of this week’s assignments in ‘Blogging 101’ was to comment on 4 blogs I hadn’t commented on yet so duly searched a preferred tag in the Reader and came across this super blog Mum Moving to Perth.  Emma has a young family and like myself is from the UK.  They only arrived last month and it […]

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Creative Writing

Dream Reader

It’s been just over 29 years since you left us Paul and if you had just walked through my front door – boy what a different world you would see!  The internet was just a ‘work in progress’ when you passed away in 1985 – we had Space Invaders and Pac-Man and the Sony Walkman.  […]

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Aussie Life

Blogging101: Say Hi! to the neighbors

Hello neighbours! Exploring topics and new blogs to follow is great fun – I would love to have you all as my blogging neighbours but unfortunately I just don’t have the time to read all the posts! My bricks and mortar neighbourhood, just 25 minutes from the centre of Adelaide, South Australia is set just […]