Here we are, in lockdown number 5 in Victoria. Covid has rated its ugly head again so once more we have been lying low and obeying the restrictions. The rule is that we can only go 5km away from home for exercise, so there’s not much that’s exciting about my walks and rides at the […]
Unexpected E-Bike Love
I’ve now had my new e-bike for four weeks. I’ve ridden it often, so am slowly getting used to it. I’ve ridden a very light weight road bike for most of my adult life, so I came very slowly to transitioning to an e-bike, which is much heavier. I hadn’t been riding regularly for a […]
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June Book Corner
It’s been a while since I’ve written about the books I’ve been reading, so I thought it was about time, I started doing more regular updates. I love reading about the books that other bloggers are reading, as they often give me inspiration for my next book. I do have a pile of books on […]
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Making Semi Retirement Plans
Now that we are in July, my planned cut back of work hours is underway. From now on, I’ll only be working one day each week. I’m in two minds about this still, but I know that it’s time. So it’s time for another phase, this time it’s the Next Phase in Life. When […]
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Updating June 2021
FITNESS June was a great month of fitness for me. For the first time in a long while everything seemed to turn out the way I’d planned. As a explained recently, when I wrote about Goals and Planning, I had set a few fitness goals for June. Fortunately I was able to tick off all […]
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A Few Days at the Beach in Winter
Our Week Away Last weekend, here in Victoria was a long weekend. We usually look forward to the Queen’s Birthday long weekend as this is when we spend a few days at Port Fairy with friends. We weren’t able to go in 2020 due to the pandemic, and in the weeks leading up to the […]
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Nourishing Body and Soul on the Camino de Santiago
At this time seven years ago, I was in Spain, tackling the beginning of my Camino de Santiago Pilgrimmage walk. I have mentioned my Camino, here on the blog on numerous occasions, but I haven’t really written in depth about it. Over the past few days, I’ve been having dreams about it and have […]
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Setting Goals and Planning
The prompt this week for Denyse’s Life This Week is Motivation. This caused me to stop and think, as motivation is a word that I have intentionally struck from my vocabulary, over recent years. Ten years ago, when I was Ambassador for Michelle Bridge’s 12wbt program, we were told by Michelle that the word motivation […]
