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I have a week at the resort, so I thought I’d spend 3 days lazing around, 3 days racing around to see the mountains and then I’d go home. So naturally, I woke up to pouring rain on the first day of my intended racing around. But you know? I didn’t care. Retirement has given […]
After a cup of coffee and a Sad Brecky, I packed the car and was on my way. It was a late start, as this was only a short hop of 307 km to Barkly Homestead. I would have driven longer, but Eve, my ex-truckie fried from the September trip, kept mentioning it like it […]
We woke up to rain the next morning. How lucky – imagine if we were trying to bushwalk in the rain? It would have been miserable. As it was, we packed our bags, Liga and I had some Latvian hazelnut chocolate as a snack – Liga2 had had the forethought to save a slice or […]
Yesterday I took Scout down to the beach. We’ve been avoiding it since she had a lump removed from her back a week ago, but it’s healing nicely and her little jacket hides it away from the sand. We arrived around 10:30, just when the classes at my old work would crowd through the halls […]
Look at the colours of the rocks up above Standley Gorge. This was my first hint that I might be going to see something special. First off – crisis averted! My bus buddy is Eve, a lovely woman from Canberra. She’s had an interesting life, having done farming, truck driving (she can back up a […]
What’s top of my mind: How lucky I am. This photo is from yesterday, when I asked Georgia if she wanted to come to the beach with the Little Woofs and me. It was a crisp and clear winter day, just perfect for a beach walk. In years gone by, I would have been in […]
What’s top of my mind: Getting the house and garden to rights. I’ve finally got my strength back after that nasty bug I picked up in Alaska. I’m looking at all that has to be done before I disappear on my next holiday. Fortunately, I have until September, so the situation isn’t dire, but I’ve […]
What’s top of my mind: Nothing. It’s a very calm and peaceful place at the moment, my mind. Where I’m going: to the backyard. Yesterday I finally felt energetic enough to go out into the backyard and do a day’s gardening. I cleared out both patches of warrigal greens and chopped and dropped the last […]
Here is the last view from our balcony. What a beautiful sight to wake up to. I don’t think that any awakening will top our first morning in Banff though, when Megan pulled back the blinds and said, “It’s SNOWING!” That was a great moment. We went down to breakfast and while we were there, […]
What a lovely little place to wake up to! This was the view I saw when I drew back the curtains. It wasn’t a great morning. I was so SLEEPY… After the shenanigans of the first night of our trip, Megan’s snoring and sleepwalking had been fine. But unfortunately, the snoring reached new heights last […]
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