This post is very late, but this is me right now… Not a literal fire, but it seems like everything has all happened at once. I am the president of the P&C (parent and citizens) Association of Jeckle’s school. We have a Bunnings sausage sizzle scheduled for tomorrow. Bunnings is a hardware mega store, and…
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A rose by any other name…
Recently a village in Austria succeeded in changing its name. As of Jan 1st, the town of F***ing will be called Fugging. It was pronounced Fooking, but of course, foreigners took great delight in using the alternative pronunciation and swiping the town signs. I thought it might be fun to list some of the places…
The Tibetan Sand Fox stare
Have you heard of the Tibetan Sand fox? As the name suggests you find them in Tibet, but also Nepal. Like all foxes it feasts on small mammals (rodents) and lizards. It’s common and ranges the grass plains and are considered of least concern. But it isn’t so much the life of the fox I…
Summer mango
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…
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…