Tag: dailyprompt
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Thanks Mum!
Write about your approach to budgeting. My Mum always said: “Love many. Trust a few. Always manage your own canoe.” Approached many of life’s challenges over the years As a member of the “heading towards aged care” generation, it applies even more so now. Thanks Mum!
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Illegal dumping!
Have you ever ! broken the law? Ooops! A long time ago! About 1969 perhaps. Our next door neighbour had purchased a block of land in the next suburb to us. They were building a new home for their daughter. “We’re looking for land fill” the neighbour said. Mum had been on to me to…
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Answering the Door
You could well be barked to death! Our pooch is Lexxi! Female, intuitive, demanding, loving, obedient ( usually) we love her. The other side of her is her gift for selecting and chewing to death socks, underwear, legs on tables, and, free from impunity, peeing on any floor surface should she have peed on the…
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In Australia it’s a lolly.
Jellybean They’re sold in Chemist shops – pharmacy’s in the northern hemisphere. Package shouts the terrific necessity for “glucose”. “Reel me in”! I could buy them from the supermarket but these ones are not as good according to packaging info! We’re elderly and are therefore bound to follow dietary guidelines …. or so we are…
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Serendipity!
Lottery win! I HAVE won the lottery today! Not the kind you might be imagining. One greater than I could have imagined! My son has just left to go to his workplace of the last three years and it’s the last shift he will work there. A new job starts tomorrow. If I could I…
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Her Royal Highness Lexxi-Lou
Number 1 Resident. How can you resist such cuteness and talent? If only I could! Regular dog walkers who live in our street plan their journey past our fence, sometimes in twos, as HRH Lexxi the dachshund barks like a Rottweiler, scaring little children, waking babies in their prams and completely infuriating the neighbourhood. She’s…
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What is my Mission?
“Live as long as I want to and want to as long as I live!” As a teenager I thought the above “quote”was about sex. However, recently, preparing for our oldest male grandchild 21st birthday, I researched the source of the quote. Of course it’s Irish in origin but I had the quote wrong! “May…
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First day at school
“Rapid acceleration It was 1955. I was four and a half. Catholic Parish school. Big intake of little “tykes” … too many for the classroom. My big brothers and my sister were ahead of me in “steps and stairs” age difference. My friend Roberta and I could write the alphabet and numbers from 1 to…
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Ocean Baths
Newcastle Baths – Heritage and Heart I learnt to swim here. One of my dad’s earliest slides ( not print) was of me in a bubble fabric cotton “bather” ( we called them swimmers or togs). I had mastered the art of floating on my back on the ramp that was the entrance to the…
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Well, the thing is…..
Are you kidding? Thing is, I need sleep! There is something about surrender and trust that invites me to sleep. My days are not frantically filled with things like routine. My life is boring, calming, challenging, sad, humbling, affirming and life giving. I invite sleep at the end of the day, or the gift of…
Confessions of a Free Range Prolapsed Catholic 