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Friday Drinks #8: Nearly Autumn. Cheese and Crackers.
It started with the hot cross buns and Easter eggs assuming more prominent positions in the supermarket. Then the high street retailers started dressing their windows in more clothes. Then the sun started to rise later. And then….. the mango section of the fruit department started to shrink. The Kensington Prides got smaller and…
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Lovin’ Life 16/2/2017: Learning Online
It’s ironic that as a person who had to apply herself 200% to get through all my uni and post grad exams, I’ve actually come to enjoy the continuing education and professional development program that I now participate in each year. It’s just as well I like it because it’s compulsory, can be audited and…
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Summer Rain. Acupuncture. Other Things.
Was it only Saturday that I was writing to you about the heat and my struggles relating to it? The weather like everything else in Sydney (except the traffic) moves fast. Here we are on Tuesday and I’m bringing you tales from a soggy but blissfully cooler Sydney. I don’t know how the…
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Life This Week 13/2/2017: Love.
When it comes to love, the Bible said it best: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects,…
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It’s Hot.
It’s hot in Sydney right now. Damn hot. People are scuttling between stores in search of fans with many retailers already sold out days before the start of this current heat wave. Workplaces have issued mass emails urging everyone to make sure as many lights and power points as possible were switched off before the…
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Lovin’ Life 9/2/2017: The Least Worst Case Scenario.
Keeping it short and sweet today. The weather was pretty crazy around where I live on Tuesday. Flash floods, massive delays for public transport and buildings were under threat of collapsing as Sydney saw more rain in one hour than we did for the whole of January. Bolts of thunder sounded more like bombs exploding and…
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News From The Kitchen of SSG Manor 2.0.
It was going so well. I managed to dodge pregnancy brain, was on maternity leave when I got newborn mummy brain and since then have been running on all cylinders most days of the week. Until I tried to a T2 online order whilst supervising bath time. My order arrived promptly and I unpacked it…
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Because of Their Air Con.
Well, didn’t we just swelter through the weekend just gone? Anything that required any physical effort out of doors (even before sun up) felt like it was being done in a sauna. Running felt like it was being done whilst wearing some kind of warmed body wrap. Which, incidentally, are not my thing at the…
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Life This Week 6/2/2017: What’s Enough Money?
The full prompt for today’s Life This Week was ‘What’s Enough Money?’. Speaking of money, are you doing the $5 challenge? I’ve surprised myself because I’m still at it five weeks into the year. It’s become reflex to fold up any fivers I receive in change, slip them into the spare pocket of my wallet…
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Friday Drinks #7: Hot Tea Yoga. The Teacher’. Other Things.
First there was beer yoga. Now may I present… mug of Barry’s tea yoga? The scene was the morning after one of those sleep disrupted nights at SSG Manor 2.0 which left me feeling like a zombie with tense shoulder and back muscles when I woke up. Then Preschooler SSG decided to wake up…