The long pilgrimage home

Tag: Australia

  • A change is as good as a holiday, how about a change while on holiday?

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    Entry Penned Beginning Monday March 24th 2025 C.E 13:46 GMT+11 So there has be a lot going on. For the last few months we have been spread between our rental place in Thailand and staying with Robert’s grandmother in regional Victoria. It has been lovely but also a touch crowded and being as remote as…

  • Nothing quite like the smell of an Aussie storm

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    I want to settle in and write some of the longer form entries but it just hasn’t been the right vibe. Some of that is because I am still Working, and tacere is not a suggestion, some of that is just the format of life right now. Still in the midst of it all I…

  • Been 20 years since I did that!

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    Entry Penned Beginning Monday February 24th 2025 C.E 20:34 GMT+11 Doing a lot of settling in, trying to get some things organised and arranged but as ever things move at the speed of the slowest bureaucrat involved. Still a personal achievement that I wanted to manage on this holiday was to improve my physical health,…

  • A brunch

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    Before heading back we stopped to nourish body and spirit for a lovely little brunch at The Spotted Owl.

  • Joy in the little moments

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    From breakfast to being able to take the time to fuss over my husband, create and keep a space for them to decompress and feel safe in while I indulge my desire to express my love with acts of service. Now sitting outside, under the corrugated tin roof, while the storm rolls through. My Discworld…

  • Some days are good, others not so much -CW Animal death

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    Entry Penned Beginning Tuesday January 21st 2025 C.E 14:27 GMT+11 The last few days have been a combination of truly pleasant and heartbreaking. This last weekend I got to spend some time in Melbourne, the city I used to work in and spend much of my time. Being able to show so many of the…

  • Surely you are overreacting?

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    Entry Penned Beginning Tuesday January 21st 2025 C.E 14:27 GMT+11 No I really am not, and don’t call me Shirley! So there is lots happening here, most quite positive but as is my nature I am not inclined to share about it until it is settled and sorted; my grandfather used to say “It is…

  • Another day at the lake

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    We have spread out a bit today, some of us staying at what I call “base”, because for me at least it isn’t home; home is where I am traveling to. A couple of us went out to the farm to do a bit more out there to settle up Rose’s father’s estate. Robert, Ashley…

  • At the pool

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    So  trying a new format for some of the posts, a short form taken on the phone while out and about. Today it is toasty, 36 right now, so have walked down to the local pool to have a splash about. It is nice to be able to just go out among folks and enjoy…

  • The more things change….

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    Entry Penned Beginning Friday January 4th 2025 C.E 13:00 GMT+11 The more they stay the same. It might have been more accurate to say everything old is new again. It seems that the mobile phone carriers here have gone back to the old “if we didn’t sell it you can’t use the phone on our…