Week 25/2025: Beauty, the beast and the back injury

Week of 16 June 2025 This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice. Beauty, the beast and the back injury Hearing trials My hearing aid trial that I...

Week 24/2025: Hearing trials and a day off

Week of 9 June 2025 Holidays and hearing This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice. A day off Thanks to the people who make public holidays, we...

Week 23/2025: Creative and critical

This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice. Week of 2 June 2025 An interesting week. This happened in Parliament. ISLAND The Menzies Institute for Medical Research, which...

Week 22/2025: Accentuate the positive

Week of 26 May 2025 This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice. Monday was my last day of cat sitting when Lil Sis and Mr Tall came...

Week 21/2025: The battle with the ongoing health issues

Week of 19 May 2025 This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice. The ongoing health issues Physio Since I hurt my back, things were slowly improving, but...

Week 20/2025: Just quickly

Week of 12 May 2025 A busy week Just quickly, a short post because I’m overwhelmed with other things to do right now. I keep asking myself how I ever managed to write a post a day in 2011 when I started this blog when I was working and...

Week 19/2025: Exploding back pain

Week of 5 May 2025 I’ve been feeling a bit miserable this week. Ouch! Exploding back pain I hurt my back exercising last Saturday (flash back to this week . . . or this one . . .  or  . . . ) and had various health professionals tell...

Week 18/2025: Rainbows, walnuts and a cat

Week of 28 April I had a lot going on this week. Tiring but good. Rainbows, walnuts and a cat The Boy Beyond the Rainbow Friday night’s adventure was to the Studio Theatre to see Rod Anderson’s one-man show The Boy Beyond the Rainbow. Rod is, apparently, a bit...

Week 17/2025: A week off

Week of 21 April 2025 This year Anzac Day fell in the same week as Easter. A lovely week off I was one of those fortunate people who was in a position to take annual leave on Wednesday and Thursday to give me a ten-day break between Easter Friday...

Week 16/2025: The week that was

Week of 14 April 2025 The week that was I feel like the things I should be writing about are too big and too overwhelming and changing so fast that I can’t keep up even thinking about them, let alone writing about them. The US descent into fascism. The...