Tomorrow is the first day of summer, so it seems only fitting that I came home today with 2 trays of mangoes. Eating the cool, juicy, golden, sweet flesh straight from the skin on a hot day is a strong summer memory for me. I grew up in northern Australia where every second back yard…
Articles from November 2020
I dream of…
In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here. One thing you dream of doing.I’m sure everyone here knows that I dream about being a published author, but there’s something else I dream of probably more often than my author goal. Quite possibly because if I was able to fulfil…
Blue tongue
The photo below is of an Eastern Blue Tongue (Tiliqua scincoides). I took the photo today as she was scurrying to hide behind the pot plant you can see top right (in the neighbour’s yard). At some point she must have been frightened and dropped her tail as a new, stumpier one has grown back.…
Brain leaking
I had planned a Douglas Adams post for today, but I am too shattered to write it. Maybe tomorrow? It’s been a crazy day where I’ve been trying to do a hundred things at once, and don’t seem to have made headway on any of them. I swear my brain is leaking from my ears.…
To be shot…
or not to be shot. That seems to be the question! The shot I am referring to is the covid vaccine. After months of everyone keeping their fingers crossed a vaccine could be developed, there are a number on the horizon. 2021 should be the year of the jab. But with the desperate wishes of…