Thirteen Years Ago This week, on 06 December, is the anniversary of the date, thirteen years ago that I moved to Bendigo. Little did I know at the time, that this would be one of the best decisions I have ever made. The reason for the move wasn’t happy but the decision was life changing. […]
Enacting Our Fire Plan: Code Red Day
Code Red Day What a day we had! Last week, I posted about my thoughts on the need to make a fire plan. We hadn’t actually made the plan, but we were thinking very seriously about how we would do it, the decisions to be made, and what we would include. We knew that we […]
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How Prepared Are You For Fire?
Summer is still one week away and already Australia has faced huge fire challenges. Over the past weeks, there have been fires burning across the country. The east coast of Australia, in particular, has seen dreadful fires with over 150 houses destroyed and lives lost. We live in a very high fire danger area, surrounded […]
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Short Stay at Noosa
Sunshine Coast Right now, I’m sitting at the Sunshine Coast Airport, waiting for my flight home. I’ve had a lovely few days here – much too short of course – visiting my son and his family. They moved to Peregian Springs in April this year so this is the first time I’ve seen them for […]
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The No Chocolate Challenge
The ‘No Chocolate’ Challenge This isn’t a real challenge that somebody came up with and was such a good idea that everyone was jumping on board to partcipate. No this is my personal little challenge. Just for me. Made up for me and by me. And for no reason other than that it sounded like […]
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Remembering Craig – 24 years
Craig Dempster 14.07.77 – 02.11.1995 And so another anniversary rolls around. Today marks 24 years since my middle child, Craig passed away. I think of Craig every single day. Not just on anniversaries. Craig would be 42 years old now. I can’t help but wonder, if his life had not been prematurely cut short, what […]
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Spring Colour in the Garden
For today, just a post of photos. As I put this post together, today is day 58 of spring. A spring that I had been long looking forward to,after experiencing a very brutal winter. At last, now there is sunshine and warmth, I’m enjoying every moment I can take, to get out into the garden. […]
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Bushwalking at Moliagul
Today we went to Moliagul to attend the Flynn of Moliagul Day, which was an event created to celebrate the life of John Flynn of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Moliagul is about 50k from where I live but I’d never been there before today. So I took the opportunity for a short bushwalk before […]
