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Aussie Life Challenges Family

Embracing Change

After months of uncertainty and the odd feeling of limbo that comes with it, we have finally had confirmation that a move interstate, to Brisbane, is on the cards for us.  When I say us I mean my husband and me; our young adult children have decided to stay in Adelaide; our daughter would prefer […]

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Family Photo101 Assignments

Day Sixteen: Treasure & Close-up

Our family treasure George.  Rescued from the care of the RSPCA he came to live with us for eight years.

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Photo101 Assignments

Day 5 – Solitude

As a boy who never sat still for five minutes, this photo has captured a very rare moment when my son just stopped and contemplated the beautiful evening. Taken on the River Murray, South Australia in 2006.

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Blog

The Liebster Award – An Introduction To New Blogs

What a wonderful start to the year for me and I haven’t even kicked off the blogging new year yet.  I’ve been nominated for a blogging award! It’s the Liebster Award, which is a fantastic way to discover and recommend new blogs. Thank you very much to Secrets of a Trailing Spouse for nominating me […]

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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.  […]