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 …
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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 …
Notes from our past selves
Sunday Blog 209 – 16th November 2025 Last week I noted that my mother was a diarist. She also obsessively catalogued her photos. Even, or perhaps especially the unflattering ones. Aesthetics were not her jam; it was all about capturing the moment. I have ended up with the floor to just-about-ceiling bookshelf stuffed with her …
Family threads
Sunday Blog 208 – 9th November 2025 My mother was a diarist. At the end of the day she sat at the kitchen table or perhaps on her comfortable armchair with her meal tray as a desk. She’d write about the intricate doings of each day in her week-to-a-page diary. What letters had arrived, phone …