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You Are Creative – Write Your Own Poem

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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Aussie Life Challenges

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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Aussie Life Challenges

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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Aussie Life Weekly Photo Challenge

WPC – The Road Taken

South Australia boast some of the best wineries in Australia and maybe the world (I’m  a tiny bit modest.) One of our favourite day trips as newbies, way back in 2005, was discovering these world class wineries, some of which were off the beaten track and off the sealed road.  We drove around this bend in […]

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The Wombat is Waking

It’s been awhile hasn’t it?  The Show is over for another year and I just have one more ‘biggy’ before life returns to some form of normality.  It’s one of the Royal Adelaide Show’s competitive sections and so big it is an event in its own right and full or what South Australia is famous […]

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Photo101 Assignments

Day Seventeen: Glass, Squared

My glass photos are a bit of fun.  Living in the wine capital of Australia there’s only one type of glass to photograph and when indulging in a spot of wine education, you just have to have a few glasses to hand.  When a very good friend came to stay, I just had to capture […]

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And Now For Something Totally Different!

I have been saving wine corks for quite a few years now with the plan to turn them into a cork board.  Unfortunately, it is taking quite some time as most of the Australian wine I enjoy is sealed under Stelvin screw caps.  My daughter asked me the other day if I was ever going to […]