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Chucking a Fast-Food Birthday Sickie

This week at work we celebrated a team member’s birthday with the obligatory afternoon tea. It was a lovely spread; a cheese platter, savoury nibbles, and a lovely passionfruit butter cake. A speech was made and our rousing rendition of ‘Happy Birthday to You’ had heads turning with jealous looks from fellow co-workers. We shared […]

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Aussie Life Happiness Project

And So To The Palace

  The day dawned with the anticipation of a wedding day, and the nerves of a driving test. I think Mum and I were far more nervous than Dad who was soon to be face to face with Royalty. The three of us met Cathy Gilman, the former CEO of Bloodwise for a pre-ceremony breakfast. Cathy was […]

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Aussie Life Challenges

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 […]