How are YOU feeling?
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Ending our first week in quarantine, it’s been a strange old time. We couldn’t be in a better place to get through this, but still, it starts to have an impact.
It’s been one year since we landed in Phuket. Time for an update
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I know everyone thinks time is moving fast, and I feel that, but it can also feel slow and ponderous, especially when moving and adjusting to a new country.
What it’s like having a dog when you’re just not a dog person
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I love cats. I’ve always loved cats. Cats don’t need anything. Oh they let you know when attention or food is required, but otherwise, they just get on with it.
Another move done…
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We loved living in Noosa Waters in many ways, but in many other ways we learnt that this life isn’t for us –this community, this normality, this way of life.
Cracking Yarns… “Dear Fatty”
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Have you read Dawn French’s “Dear Fatty” yet? This is a beautiful, hopeful, lovely and sweet book, by a woman who is obviously beautiful, hopeful, lovely and sweet.
My husband… an incompatibility
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When we met it was like falling in love with an opposite sex version of ourselves, we were so closely aligned in all of our thinking, values, morals and more.
A charitable heart… where have they gone?
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We are currently living in a sensational area of Noosa – waterfront living at its best. Yesterday I notice this woman traipsing the street and I ask her what she’s up to.
Great Yarns – Stieg Larsson’s Trilogy
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I am not a person that falls over myself every time something huge hits the world. Popular culture and I have a mixed past.
Bloody kids… facing our first operation
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Lex, our first born son, who is now three years and eight months, is a magnificent little man. He is all compassion and heart
My husband… and sport
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I’m sorry to many of my female friends for admitting this, but I am a very lucky girl. Steve, my husband, loves his sport but he never ever watches it at the expense of his family