Recent Articles
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Help!…I’ve been taken hostage…
I know… when I looked back at my blog I could hardly believe it myself…
FIVE months have passed since I last sat down and wrote a post
Where have I been? What on earth could have kept me away from the keyboard of sanity that I had kept within arms reach for so many years?
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Beauty and the Beast…
Two thoughts have crossed my mind over the last week or so…
The first was on how little I encounter any creepy crawlies. When I first traipsed around Australia in the early nineties, I would often come across a spider the size of my face… and the odd cockroach wing/leg/antenna in my shoe.My second thought was triggered because it is [...]
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Just a-walking in the rain
After a month of mayhem, I am finally getting a handle on my new routine. With three children starting different schools; writing unscheduled articles for magazines; filming youtube clips (coming soon to this channel!) and organising other work commitments – my days have been somewhat disorganised…
…and I loathe disorganisation!
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Happy Australia Day!!
Today I celebrated my first Australia Day as an Aussie…. and I felt immensely proud to raise up the Australian flag (ok – it was a cheap hand-held one from the Dollar Tree… and it was actually attached to my esky – not raised up high on a pole) BUT the point is, I felt pretty darn ‘true blue’ [...]
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Great video from Dr. Rob Brander…
Remember a few weeks ago when I was chatting to a local surf lifesaver about rips… while watching my son being battered about by the waves…?
Well, since then a top bloke called Dr. Rob Brander (a surf scientist) has steered me in the direction of his website, called (would you believe) “The Science of the Surf” [...]