A blog about midlife, travel, adventure – and all things in between
It's been a dream for 18 years and now it's finally happened despite many hiccups along the way! Congrats to all those involved in the Tumbarumba to Rosewood Rail Trail.
Are you ageing well, do you think? This month it's Ageing Well In August with tips and prompts to help us age and live well. Here's my third weekly wrap-up.
I have enjoyed hosting a few guests on my blog as part of my People of Interest feature where I share interesting people with you my interesting readers. Meet Sue!
My husband and I are keen bike riders and Rail Trail enthusiasts and we take every opportunity to get out and about, seeing the countryside while riding our bikes. Our little town has finally started building it's very own Rail Trail and we are heavily involved in the project. In November 2016 we travelled with …
Continue reading "What you need to know to cycle the beautiful Hauraki RT for the first time"
You've heard of running with the bulls, well today I went running with the black cockatoos! In Australia black cockatoos indicate rain is on the way but there was hardly a cloud in the sky and it was a very warm 27 degrees celsius at 6pm. It felt so good to be back out there …
A Sentence a Day - a month in review I joined in with some wonderful bloggers for the Sentence a Day writing challenge for the month of June, and enjoyed it so much I'm back again for July! On the first Thursday of each month, we link our posts up and can read what everyone …
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Run Melbourne 2017 Last week I wrote a post about my upcoming Run Melbourne 2017 event - I CAN do this - and I am pleased to say not only did I do it, I did really well! This is a quote from my post last week: I'm not fast, I'm not stylish, I tend to run …
Running has been a part of my life for quite a while now. I've written quite a few posts about it over the years and here comes another one!! I'm not fast, I'm not stylish, I tend to run a bit heavy, I'm sometimes happy when it's over and I'm no longer what you'd …
A Sentence a Day - a month in review I've decided to join some wonderful bloggers for the Sentence a Day writing challenge for the month of June. On the first Thursday of each month, we link our posts up and can read what everyone else has been up to during the month. It's also …
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Remind me again why I'm doing this? Running I mean! I haven't written a post about just running since July last year but I have been running, on and off, in the meantime. The months after July were wet, miserable and cold. I was also suffering from looking down the barrel of redundancy but …
Four Corners A Sense Of Self When acclaimed TV journalist Liz Jackson is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, crippling her with pain & panic attacks, she turns the lens on herself to make the most challenging story of her life. This episode was shown on Four Corners on ABC TV recently but, due to being away, …
Bike chaos Chaos is the prompt for this week's photo challenge - let’s embrace disorder and its creative power. I very nearly deleted these photos from a trip to Sweden a while ago, as they looked too messy and chaotic! We love visiting countries like Denmark and Sweden for their accepting attitude to bikes. These sorts of …
I have always been a bike rider. One of the best memories from my childhood involved us getting new bikes one year for Christmas. We have a family photo somewhere of the three of us kids standing proudly displaying our new bikes and smiling so broadly - we realised how lucky we were. We were always out …
Continue reading "The quest for a rail trail – Weekly Photo Challenge"
My walk today was more like an Olympic obstacle event. I was entered into the steeplechase, hurdles, running and the walking events. Not quite a pentathlon. We have had so much rain lately that everywhere I walked there were trees down across the tracks and muddy puddles to negotiate. I had to problem solve every few …
Well I did it! Despite my dire prediction in my Run Melbourne post a few weeks ago, I actually ran in this 5km event! I don't know how I did it but I ran, I walked, I felt good, I ran some more and I really enjoyed myself. I had hardly walked , let alone run, for …
