Midlife – travel, fun and adventure
Hello I love reading! Do you? A few other words I could use to describe myself as a reader are: avid, compulsive, dedicated, devoted, insatiable and voracious. So it's very timely that this week's prompt for desleyjane's Contemplation post is: What's the next book you're going to read? I am part of a book club which meets every month for …
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Afternoon stripes of sunshine in the city The city buildings create their own patterns with the afternoon sunshine - it's good to look up occasionally! What else could it be? An elevator moving up, a phone battery display....let your imagination go wild. Mundane Monday Challenge is hosted by Jithin at Trablogger - it's all about finding the beauty …
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Today I ran for 11.3kms! How amazing is that? If you've followed my running progress to date you'd know what a big deal this is for me! I've been following a training plan to improve my 5km running time and I'm determined to try to get below 30 minutes at some stage this year. I've …
10 red Persimmons...... Here is a simple display of Persimmons found in my favourite local coffee shop Nest: Cinema/cafe/books I like the way these Persimmons are displayed in an elegantly simple, typically rural, no nonsense way; yet they still manage to look stylish in a 'spare' minimalist way. Congrats to the Nest team for their creativity …
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It's Phriday - time for a laugh While in Sydney for meetings, my work colleague (and friend) decided to play a practical joke on me. This involved her 'trashing' my hotel room. As her room wasn't ready I generously let her use mine until she could get into her room. She thanked me for my …
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Reflection The water was so still it was hard to see where the reflection actually starts. Mundane Monday Challenge is hosted by Jithin at Trablogger - it's all about finding the beauty in mundane things ....a challenge created to find beauty in everyday mundane things...capture the beauty and upload the photographs. Feel free to join in! Welcome to Mundane Monday . Deb …
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It's Phriday - that's awesome! I love Fridays and having an afternoon cup of tea in my favourite mug is an awesome way to start the weekend. Relax, unwind, breathe...... It doesn't hurt to remind ourselves just how awesome we are either! iPhriday is where we get to share a photo taken with a mobile phone. Thanks to Lisa …
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Once upon a time I met a famous person, before he was famous, and we became pen friends. Yes really!
Happy or sad faces? Here are two smiley faces but are they really happy faces? Sometimes smiles can be deceiving and if you knew the background to this photo you would wonder how they could smile at all, given the news they had received that day. The champagne is also a bit of a throw …
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It seems I'm more political than I thought! I'm also very angry! I've rarely shared information about my work on my blog but this week I have well and truly broken that self imposed ban. And for a very good reason. This week we were informed that our jobs, as educators within correctional centres across …
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It's Phriday! It's not been the best week but this view from my hotel room in the centre of Sydney was one of the good things to happen! The night view was beautiful and the sunrise was pretty good too. iPhriday is where we get to share photos taken with a mobile phone. You can see my previous iPhriday posts …
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Welcome to Wordless Wednesday I don't usually add words to these Wordless Wednesday posts believing that the picture tells the story but today is a bit different. The quote used with my photo is very fitting at the moment. This article tells a story which affects me and my colleagues. I rarely, if ever, talk …
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Incy wincy spider This was the sight I saw as I went to open the fridge this morning. A big huntsman spider had made himself quite comfortable on the fridge door and wasn't fazed at all when I went to open it. I jumped and squealed but he didn't seem to mind that either. He blended …
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It was raining, it was cold but it was definitely fun. We joined hundreds of people in Canberra's Commonwealth Park for the 2016 Mother's Day Classic, all of us raising funds for Breast Cancer Research. It was a sea of pink despite the wet weather. I wrote a post recently about Running for a Cause and …
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Hugh's photo challenge this week is all about hats. Well I'm here to tell you that I'm a hat and I want to share my limited view of the world with you. I'm here, I'm looking out at you but you may not realise it. No one thinks of me as being able to do anything except …
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Some earthy quotes and thoughts!
I was lost, scared, tired...how the kindness of strangers helped me on the first day of my big solo adventure in another country!
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