19 Wednesday Apr 2017
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People are the backbone of blogging. It has been a joy to discover new people around the globe, make virtual friends, get to know people that I may never meet face to face.
Thank you all for following my ramblings, for the likes and comments and encouragement. Happy blogging everyone 🙂
Generally, I’m not comfortable taking photos of random people, strangers, but sometimes, I just have too!
16 Monday Jan 2017
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The iPhone is 10 years old today.
How much has its technology changed your life? It wasn’t the first smart phone but it paved the way.
We take this pocket size computer for granted. A camera, a clock, calendar, access to the internet, emails, messages, instant worldwide news, a global encyclopaedia, maps and street atlas, face to face real time conversations across the world, music and much more.
A lot has changed since phones looked like this, with the familiar dial 🙂
02 Monday Jan 2017
Posted in 100 word challenge, creativity
Our driftwood Christmas Tree has morphed into a birthday tree.
Most of my adult life, I’ve taken Christmas decorations down on New Year’s Day. A real Christmas tree has started to drop, to look a bit sad. Christmas is over, lets reclaim the lounge, start afresh for a new year and make space for birthday cards.
This year, although I packed away other Christmas decorations, I am not yet ready to say goodbye to our tree.
So I’ve taken off the stars, the bells, the red and green decorations, and added more shells, paper umbrella’s and a few birthday cards.
16 Wednesday Nov 2016
Posted in 100 word challenge, one with nature, weekly photo challenge
After sunset, we heard an unusual bird noise outside. We took a torch out onto our balcony and saw a couple of penguins out on the grass.
There are numerous Fairy Penguin rookeries around the coast of Tasmania, but we didn’t realise they’d be such close neighbours.
We were too surprised to think of taking photos although we did call neighbours and had an impromptu penguin pyjama party.
We have been down to the beach in daylight and tried to identify footprints.
24 Wednesday Aug 2016
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The community transport organisation I work for is leasing an electric car.
100% electric, not a hybrid.
There’s an official launch day next month, but today staff had a preview.
I didn’t actually drive it but the Nissan Leaf is very comfortable in the back, very spacious. The dashboard is straight forward. The accessories of radio, media, GPS, seemed more complicated than the actual car controls. The silence does seem odd.
There is a charge point at work. One of about twenty in Tasmania.
Promoting an electric car here, is quite an innovative step.
21 Sunday Jun 2015
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This week’s 100 word challenge is … As time passes …
The tide rolls in with regular monotony.
The oceans move in an invisible synchronisation with the Earth, Moon and Sun.
The waves tumble onto sandy beaches.
The waves crash against cliffs.
As time passes, the solid rocks are gradually eroded.
Caves form at the base of the cliffs.
The water continues it’s bombardment of the ground, creating rock arches.
As time passes, parts of the cliff collapse.
Deep vertical chasms are carved into the contours of the coastline.
The ocean cascades into low caves that join with vertical shafts, forming blowholes.
As time passes the world evolves.
Photos from our day trip to Tasmania’s East Coast around Eaglehawk Neck.
Tasman Arch
Devils Kitchen
blowhole
blowhole
26 Sunday Apr 2015
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April 2015 has been the month when we turned our lives upside down.
We moved from UK to Australia.
We sold a suburban house and rented a waterfront apartment.
Sold a car and bought a new one.
Closed utility accounts and opened new ones.
Notified medical, financial and everyone of our move.
Registered for medical, tax file references, transferred driving licence.
We’ve been frustrated with phone and media company in both countries.
After such a hectic month of practicalities and admin to move our lives, I now want a few weeks to be a tourist in my new home town.
02 Thursday Apr 2015
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100 word challenge – this week’s prompt is … and so it begins.
And so it begins … our countdown.
This time next week, we board a flight to Australia.
In these final seven days we will wind up our UK life, sell our car, pack suitcases, pack up the house, put belongings into storage, give away furniture, washing machine, garden equipment. We will undoubtedly visit the local tip.
We have already notified the utilities, advised change of address everywhere. We have cancelled store cards and online accounts. How many loyalty cards does one couple need?
We will clean the house, take meter readings, hand over keys, juggle finances. Then relax.
Sounds simple enough!
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18 Wednesday Mar 2015
Posted in 100 word challenge, all about me, more to life
They say that buying / selling a house is one of the most stressful things we do in life. I can vouch for that and we are only selling.
The stressful elements include …..
~ Keeping tidy for house viewings.
~ Buyers who pull out.
~ Estate Agents who give you the big sell but not the reality.
Right now, we are chasing our solicitor, our buyer is chasing their solicitor, the estate agent is chasing everyone.
I would like to get the two solicitors in the same room and bang their heads together.
It’s an ongoing frustrating waiting game.
12 Thursday Mar 2015
Posted in 100 word challenge, remembering / musing
100 word challenge – this week’s prompt is …the scent was overpowering…
The two dogs weren’t related. They had different colouring, different personalities.
Oska barked at people and would play in any water he came across. Izak barked at other animals and avoided water, stepped around puddles.
Their local walk was through a park, into woods and out via a country lane.
There were horse riders down the lane. Oska took his opportunity to roll in horse manure, knowing it would result in a telling off and a cold hose down when they got back home. The scent was overpowering but Oska thought the shampoo smell afterwards was worse.
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