REDFEB 2023 – Wearing Red for Heart Disease

February is heart month. Traditionally it is the month for celebrating Valentines Day, which makes it also strangely appropriate for Heart Research Australia’s major fundraising campaign called REDFEB. Both Valentines and REDFEB are concerned with the heart and with love. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Australia and annually takes over 18, …

Twenty Years

Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II The 31st of January is no ordinary day for us. It is a day of memory and loss, grief and love. On this day, twenty years ago, our lives were changed forever. My husband Rob, the father of Dan and Bec, died suddenly from …

A Puzzling Time in Adelaide

At the height of the Covid lockdowns in 2020 we were all searching for something to occupy our minds. There is only so much tv one can watch and so we turned to the good old favourite - jigsaw puzzles. Jigsaws have been a family favourite of ours for many years, especially during winter evenings, …

Caring for Our Elders

I don’t know where the last two months have gone. October and most of November have just flown by taking all my good blogging intentions with them. 2022 is feeling a little like 2020. Remember 2020? The first Covid year. At the end of 2020 we were so glad to get to the end of …

Not the Best of Times

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it …

A Sadder Mothers’ Day This Year

This week our dear mother and grandmother, Joy, passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning with her lifelong partner and dearly loved husband, Hedley, by her side. It was only just Mothers’ Day last year that I wrote about her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. It seems sadly bittersweet then, that this Mothers’ Day …

Migraine and Headache Awareness Week

Headaches are one of those annoying things in life. Often caused by stress or noise or sometimes even a little too much to drink, they are irritating but usually quickly treated with a couple of pills or a good lie down. Migraines, on the other hand, are a serious and debilitating condition that can rob …

Family Matters

This weekend many families around Australia will be celebrating Mother's Day. Mums of all ages will be receiving breakfast in bed, bunches of flowers, boxes of chocolates and expressions of undying gratitude for their never-ending love and care. It is a beautiful celebration of gratitude for the important women in our lives. It is also …

#BookSnapSunday – the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ But ‘That’s funny…’ Isaac Asimov This week’s book snap features books from the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov (1920-1992). One of the most well-known science fiction writers, Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books. Many of them …

Travel Photo Challenge Review

Now that the Travel Photo Challenge is finished I thought it would be good to review the photos, identify the place and time, and give a quick summary of the trip. Are you familiar with any of these places? Day 1 - Wedge Island, Western Australia  This photo was taken in December 2004 at Wedge …