First up, a fact about me that you may not know. When I first left high school I started a degree in Occupational Therapy at Cumberland College of Health Sciences in Sydney. I didn’t survive past the end of Semester 1, I believe it was a psychology essay that finally tipped me over the edge…
Tonight I signed up for Dry July again. I’ve done it a few times before, but this year it is much more personal. If you don’t know about Dry July, it’s a fundraising campaign for Cancer Care centres around Australia and New Zealand. The money helps the Centres pay for important, but not medically necessary…
Months ago, I promised that this blog was not going to turn into a description of my experience with breast cancer. I think I’ve stuck with that on the whole – this is going to be one of the times I talk about it though. So far I’ve had surgery, four rounds of AC Chemo…
When my kids were little, we used to make sure we sent postcards to their grandparents whenever we went away somewhere. Even if we only went to the coast for a weekend, we would make a point of finding, buying, writing and sending a postcard if at all possible. It was a way of occupying…
I’ve blogged here briefly before about the fact that I look after the social media for Cronulla Water Polo Club. I run the facebook and twitter accounts and while I really enjoy it, it’s usually pretty routine. However, every now and then something comes along that really makes me smile. Among plenty of others, the club accounts follow USA…
One of the side effects of the past few months has been losing my interest in just about everything, including (very sadly for me) cooking. My gorgeous girlfriends helped out by providing a wonderful meal delivery service so no one actually starved during this time, but I lost one of my favourite pastimes. I’m happy…
I don’t really do Christmas cards. I used to – and I still love getting them but somewhere in my busy life a few years ago sending them fell off the list of things to do before Christmas. Every year I say I’ll get organised and send some and then every year I’m in this…
By now you may know that I was diagnosed with breast cancer last month. I don’t plan to use this blog to go into great detail, but like many other things in my life it’s not a secret and I’m happy to talk about it in person. I’m particularly happy to talk about it if…
My lovely Italian colleague brought me some of her homemade pork & fennel sausages during the week – along with amazing photos of the sausage making extravaganza that had occurred at her home over the weekend. Amazing scenes! Anyway, inspired by her generous gift and by another post from Stonesoup, I made this for dinner:…
This month sees the retirement of Bishop Pat Power, Catholic Bishop in the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese. A long outspoken critic of the way the church deals with women, gays, divorcees and the idea of married priests, Pat is not exactly going quietly. Quite simply, he believes the current conservative attitude of the Church towards a large…
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