In the morning, after shutting the gate (to keep the chooks in), I turned around to see a handsome king parrot land in a shaft of weak eastern sunlight on one of the bare boughs of our pear tree. He chirruped softly and I chirruped back. He cocked a curious head down at me. I … Continue reading Photo Phrustration
So I want to write about Tesla. I will not feed you lots of facts because I'm afraid my brain just isn't that good at retaining facts. But I will try and be logical. First of all... we bought a Tesla Model 3 in October 2019 - just before life in general turned into a … Continue reading Tesla
I wanted to actually send this letter but I can't find an address to send it to. So I have changed nearly all the critical details and am posting it here as a balm to my own feelings. It's sort of a work of fiction, given how much I have changed. But the feelings are … Continue reading The Worlds We Revisit
This afternoon we went for a little loop walk in Tidbinbilla - a nearby National Park. The walk we chose was the Lyrebird Trail with a bit of Cascade Trail thrown in for good measure - perhaps as much as 4kms in all. As we stepped out of the car to begin our walk, a … Continue reading Tidbinbilla
Warning: some fowl language content. Our daughter has piano lessons on Friday afternoons so we don't get home from school pick up until close to 5pm. By then, the dinner preparations are pretty urgent. Today, I had at least decided on the meal but had had to purchase a few items while daughter was in … Continue reading A different sort of evening…
There were two things I dreaded about having chemotherapy. One was the nausea - it's a pretty well known... almost an infamous side effect. And the other was losing my hair... again a fairly publicly visible outcome. The first has proved relatively manageable. The hospital wants you to be able to function as normally as … Continue reading About Chemo
I sit, warmly blanketed, in a bland room. The dim light on the wall opposite is an assault on my closed eyes. There’s no clock and no windows. The air conditioning hums loudly for intervals and then cuts off. My eyes water but I don’t raise a hand to brush the liquid away. Sometimes I … Continue reading PET Scan
So, last week I cut a lot of my hair off. It used to come about half way down my back. Now - well the longest bits are about 10 centimetres and, although the hair dresser never got out the clippers, the back is very short. Like, you can't make it messy. I made this … Continue reading Impacts.
It's late afternoon and I'm exhausted. The day was a bit of an emotional roller coaster and I'm feeling the strain. I don't have the energy to take the dog for a proper walk so I take him to the park with the kids. They play happily on the playground equipment and the dog runs … Continue reading The Lady and Lucy
I just hate conflict. I hate it so much that it paralyses me. It's why I am crap at management. I'm crap in meetings. I hate the feeling in my stomach. I hate the anxiety in my chest. I hate the thought that I have hurt somebody or am hurting somebody. But often, the reason … Continue reading Conflict
