Confessions of a Free Range Prolapsed Catholic

“I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent!"

  • Well, here’s a turn up!

    11.54pm and I have just got into bed! Triple L is snuggled under the covers on his side of the bed, the dog’s rhythmic snores will soon become, I hope the obstinato accompaniment to my lapsing into refreshing sleep – as much as is possible with the wedge under my bum, legs elevated and feet […]

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    April 7, 2017
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  • The witching hour wide awake!

    4.13 am! Been for my third walk around the house courtesy of the newly awakened muscles etc that surround the new knees and have developed a penchant for twitching, flexing, “guess who’s back” wake up calls post PHYSIOTHERAPY!!!!  Endone eventually belts them into submission but it’s a battle which often ends with Long Lean and […]

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    April 6, 2017
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  • Absence makes the knees grow stronger!

    Oh dear! I have been away journeying through the highs and lows of bilateral knee replacement. Five and a bit weeks later I am slowly starting to emerge from what has been an experience that is beyond description really! Dear reader, I am typing this on my iPad at 1.05am, lying in bed beside my […]

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    April 5, 2017
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  • Learning how to fly!

    Going International In 1987 I took my first ever long service leave. I had managed to accrue ten weeks leave on full pay. I was proud of this achievement and thrilled that it coincided with a time in my life when I really needed it. “Oh she went to Rome, Paris, London, Monte Carlo” I […]

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    February 24, 2017
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  • Travelling south!

    I have been having a middle aged – oh blow it I’ll tell the truth from the beginning – late in life love affair with Melbourne for the last few years. On one trip, some years ago I purchased a book by a well known female author cashing in on the stereotypes of: being a woman (so […]

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    February 23, 2017
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  • An Auction in the Offing

    I wrote this piece in February 2016. The place to which I refer has just been sold to the Diocese so that the school can be extended to include a senior section.  Many people have no idea of what the likes of the Josephite Sisters laid as the foundation of quality Catholic Education available to all […]

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    December 12, 2016
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  • Conversations in the Pool

    I love the water! The picture above shows my favourite place to immerse myself. Its the Ocean Baths in Newcastle on a particularly stormy day. Actually on this day the baths were closed. I learned to swim there. My older siblings, already well able to swim, belonged to Newcastle swimming club and would compete each […]

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    November 16, 2016
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  • I love to sing in Church!

    In 1994 I went to Ireland. I was 43 and I travelled alone. It was my first overseas trip. Prior to that, my only experience of plane flight had been in a 24 seater plane to Brisbane and a mystery flight to Adelaide. I had always proclaimed that nothing smaller and a Jumbo Jet or the […]

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    November 4, 2016
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  • November 2nd the Feast of All Souls

    I have been so overcome by the present in the last couple of days, that I have to distract myself from the obsession with the past and my attempt to make readers who did not live it, try to understand why so many catholics, free ranged, prolapsed and otherwise are so connected to their “formation” […]

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    November 4, 2016
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  • Ooops to the Bells and Smells!

    In my last post, I managed to get so completely immersed in the memories of trying to maintain my balance on a forward sloping organ stool while keeping the swells open with my knees and the bellows going like the clappers, that I overlooked the role of the bells and smells in Benediction! To be in […]

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    October 8, 2016
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