Travel Challenge Day 5

Do you ever look at a holiday snap from years ago and wonder where the heck that was? It's funny how some places and images stick in your mind crystal clear while others begin to look rather similar. Sometimes a beach looks like a beach looks like a beach. Just as well my phone tells …

Travel Challenge Day 4

Day 4 of the Travel Challenge and I hope you have been enjoying this trip through memory lane. You see some funny sights when you travel. What has been the funniest thing to tickle your fancy on your travels? I have been nominated by Sharon from Gum Trees and Galaxies to participate in a Travel …

Travel Challenge Day 3

Day 3 of the Travel Challenge and it's been quite interesting scrolling through the holiday photos and realising what you take photos of and what you do not and making a mental note to pay more attention to composition in future. At least our cameras and phones of today record the date and place - …

Travel Challenge Day 2

2020 was a strange year. We stayed home, social distanced and connected with the world outside via the internet. While armchair travelling can have its benefits, like Sharon, I too have been missing the beach. I love nothing better than to squelch my toes in the sand, smell the salty air and eat fish and …

Travel Challenge Day 1

Well this post nearly didn't happen. This afternoon the heavens opened, the rain bucketed down and the power went out. Not that unusual for QLD. And I thought that was going to be the end of that. Just as I had finished lighting all the candles, the power comes back on. I have been nominated …

#BookSnapSunday – Frankenstein

Yesterday, January 2nd, was National Science Fiction Day. This celebration of all things science fiction originated in the United States but has been gaining popularity with sci fi fans across the world. It is celebrated on January 2nd in memory of Isaac Asimov, one of the most well-known and prolific writers of science fiction. On …

Hope in the Midst of Pain

 The New Year is just around the corner and I imagine there are many of us who cannot wait to see the end of 2020. The Corona Virus has delivered a major hit to our communities and our way of life during this year and our New Year celebrations will be no different. Large gatherings …

Living in the Christmas Spirit All the Year Round

I am sure I have always thought of Christmastime…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they …

Home Grown Veggies

The Covid 19 Pandemic has thrown us a number of challenges this year: working and learning online, managing our social distance and learning new ways of doing things. Unfortunately it also gave birth to some degree of fear and anxiety which was demonstrated in the panic buying and hoarding of basic pantry items and especially, …

#BookBingo 2020 – A Place I Dream of Visiting

Book Bingo Challenge Completed This is the final round of Book Bingo and I am checking off the very last square, A Place I Dream of Visiting with A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne. France and Italy are just two European countries I would love to visit one day although it …