Sunday Blog 219 – 25th January 2025 For those of you who have not yet jumped on the “New Year New You” bandwagon, one of my personal favourites, there’s still time. The Chinese New Year is not until 17 February. 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse, of which more later. Right now we’re …
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Never a Cross Word
Sunday Blog 218 – 18th January 2026 Like many teachers, my parents married in January. On an excruciatingly hot January day they embarked on more than six decades of wedded bliss adventure. The in-joke each anniversary was like a nervous tick “X number of years and Never a Cross Word.” For their fiftieth wedding anniversary …
To Dawnie, With Love
Sunday Blog 217 – 11th January 2025 Can it be two years since you left us Dawn? When I checked the date of my last post about you it was indeed written two years ago. I’d attended your funeral that very week, and was trying to sum up how I felt about you as a …
Memory Jar
Sunday Blog 216 – 4th January 2026 Last week I tantalised with a picture of the contents from my 2025 memory jar; this week I thought I would write them out like pearls. Here goes. This is such an incomplete list of 2025 highlights. It cuts out before the August and September trip to Ireland, …
Days between the years
Sunday Blog 215 – 28th December 2025 I would be a liar if I said I didn’t like this time of year. The days between the years – between Christmas and New Year – are all about the goals. Reviewing the goals. Setting the goals. Talking about goals. And I’m all about the goals. Weekly …
What would my life have been like if I’d been sporty?
And similar days-between-the-years questions Sunday Blog 214 – 21st December 2025 “I wonder what my life would have been like if I’d been sporty,” I found myself asking my very sporty husband recently. Ours is a union of very different people. For me to have ended up with a sporty non-drinker is as unlikely as …
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Almost the end of the year
Sunday Blog 213 – 14th December 2025 As promised, I’m back on the planning horse for 2026. The year hasn’t even finished, there are still goals I’m hoping to achieve before New Year’s Eve rolls around, and already, the 2025 year’s post-mortem is racing down the track, leaving my quieter, introspective self choking in its …
Walk in Jarvis Park
Sunday Blog 212 – 7 December 2025 I’m sticking close to home this weekend. After last week’s big effort running a neighbourhood event, I’m trying on “being in the moment” for size. On an evening walk this week, I allowed myself to notice what I saw, heard and felt at a local park, called Jarvis …
Big Events, Small Moments
Sunday Blog 211 – 30 November 2025 Since last week, when I outed myself for signing Tomorrow Me up for all the things Today Me wouldn’t want to do, progress has been, well, complicated. For one thing, one of my major volunteer events took place yesterday. Cooby Fest. It’s a local community event where we …
Tomorrow Me
Sunday Blog 210 – 23 November 2025 Let me introduce you to Tomorrow Me. Like Today Me, only better. Tomorrow Me is definitely going to enjoy doing all the things Today Me signed it up to do. Also, Tomorrow Me will smash these tasks in a twentieth of the time Today Me would take to …