A few days ago, we made a quick trip back to my hometown, Shepparton, to visit my mother and do a few jobs around the house for her. I don’t go back there often, at the best of times, but this visit was the first since December 2019, due to the pandemic. I was born […]
2021 Year of Health – January
I posted last week about my Word Of The Year for 2021. The word I have chosen is Health, with the theme being #2021YearOfHealth. My plan is to have a monthly theme, in order to review, and reset, any bad habits, which may have crept in during 2020. My theme for January is Eat Less […]
Year of Reading 2020
I’ve read many books this year, but not as many as in a ‘normal’ year. I sort of lost my reading mojo, during the pandemic. Looking back, I seemed to be worried about everything and especially worried about the virus. Usually, if I’m sitting on a chair, I am reading. However, there were many times […]
Word Of The Year 2021 #WOTY
As I write this post, on the first day of January, I am trying to put the challenges of 2020 out of my mind, and instead, think about the year ahead. At the moment, I’m finding that quite difficult, sitting here with it’s legacy, a badly broken left arm. One week before Christmas, I tripped […]
Let’s Wave Goodbye to 2020
I wonder what we would have been thinking last Christmas, had we known the challenges we would face in 2020. A pandemic? Surely not. Toilet paper wars? No way. And things just seemed to get worse as the year went on. School children had to learn from home. People had to work from home if […]
My Best Reads of 2020
The only criteria to get into my ‘top’ books list of the year is enjoyment. I don’t take into account literary merit at all, as it’s my opinion that any book enjoyed is a great book. I’m not ashamed to say that I have no snobbishness at all about books. I love reading both classics […]
Life On The Edge of a National Park
I feel very very lucky to live in a place that is surrounded by bushland. All it takes is a few steps outside the front gate, and I am in the Bendigo National Park. This bushland area is my backyard and my recreation area. There are many kilometres of walking tracks that surround our house, […]
November Smiles
When I decided to write monthly, about the happy moments during each month, I had no idea that Covid-19 was about to appear in our lives, causing life, as we know it, to change. I’m sure most would say that the past few months have been quite stressful and worrying. But this post isn’t to […]