28 April, Mag's River Unit I have recently spent a few days in my sister in law's wonderful riverside unit. It seemed that my climb of Mt Maroon had strained the muscles on my LHS, so this v...
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Clouds Our sun is seems to be setting much earlier. I walked across to my neighboours last week, a little after 5 pm. As we chatted, the setting sun reflected soft colour on the whispy clouds...
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Wednesday 17 April - a post to crack Bill up! Back in November, Hugry Hiker Jayne announced that she had just booked a month's cruise with Virgin's "Resilient Lady". It was a special too good ...
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Wednesday April 10. Crisp, clear, stunning blue skies have finally arrived with cooler temperatures, leading into our winter. Notice, I don't use the term autumn. Noone here does. We are compl...
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Tuesday 2 April - Monday 8 April Strangely, there was no walking on Monday. Setting off for a Gaiter Girl walk at 6 am Tuesday, the sky was aglow with this wonderful sunrise. There was onl...
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25 - 31 March With cooler, less humid weather, I set off on Monday around 6.30 am, just extending my local circuit. Surprisingly, these are the only photos taken during my 14 km walk. ...
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Sunday 17 March to Sunday 24 March Returning from Yamba on Sunday, we visited Frank's sister at Tweed Heads. It was St Patrick's Day and Mags provided a delicious Irish lunch of potato, bacon a...
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14 - 17 March Destination - Yamba, New South Wales. Route - via Coffee Camp to visit my brother and sister-in-law. It was a glorious drive through lush countryside. A delicious morni...
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My Facebook post of February 18, read:- "Late December, my younger brother Jim, was diagnosed with B-cell Lymphoma. On the 15 January, the day Jim had his first chemo, I read about the Cancer ...
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Seefeld, 20 to 25 May 2011 Alexandra, of 'Still Making Waves on Top of the World', is off hiking in Austria in a few months time. This news sent me racing for my diaries and photos of our M...
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This post has been in the pipeline since an early morning local walk, several months ago, when I spotted this amazing heart. Several months later, it still captures my attention every time I pa...
Sunday 11 February - PEI v Mt Warren Park Last weekend, Prince Edward Island had its 2nd largest snow storm in a decade, over 3 days. Initially Ben and Nora had a lovely time playing in it, b...
February 4 BUT ........... Life goes on and for some people there is no respite from it. Daily life must go on. Monday and Tuesday the forecast was that we would be drenched by the afte...
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21st to 28th January And what a week it has been with unexpected discoveries, extreme heat, a little cold, and continued good times with friends! A niece had mentioned to me recently that s...
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15 to 21 January Its been a week of heat, humidity and 5 inches of rain. Over the past month it has been lovely to hear green frogs croaking of an evening. This little fellow however, ha...
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Wet, humid, January - part one. I previously mentioned the storm damage of Christmas night. Boxing day, prior to sunset, saw another storm front to the north of us, but it thankfully bipasse...
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Living in the tropics, there is no real transition from one season to another. Six months of heat and 6 months of cool/cold. There are pockets of 'seasonal' colour. Days lengthen and shorten to a...
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As 2023 draws to a close, I am sitting under our pergola in comfort, enjoying a cool breeze and a lush green view. Two days ago this was not the scenario, as the temperature and humidity soared t...
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Stanley and Stanlietta were feeling the summer heat. Time was spent making them more comfortable. The daily countdown to Christmas with Ben and Nora, commenced. Fr...
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Wednesday 20 December In past years we have enjoyed several city Christmas events together. With everyone's full diaries, it was decided to adapt our Wednesday walking day into an evening pic...
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This is a collation of being out and about, trying to beat the heat and humidity, that we are at present experiencing. Wednesday 6 December 4pm meet up in the city. The temperature was 33C ...
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Our Christmas decorating was completed last night. As always, it was a trip down memory lane as each bauble and decoration was put in place. The tree. Until I was in my late teens and livin...
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Wednesday 29 Novemeber. Joc recently found an article about walking in North Lakes on the north side of Brisbane. The Hungry Hikers were only five, so we met at 6.30 at our usual rendevous po...
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Tuesday 28 November The temperature rose to 32 C yesterday. At 6pm a storm came through with little rain, but bringing a cool change for today. This morning the Gaiter Girls met at Janice's...
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Kyogle Show Saturday 8th October saw me taking the beautiful drive, back across the border, to spend the day at Kyogle Show. Our family had lived on a dairy farm at Afterlee, 25 km outside Kyog...
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