I finished 84, Charing Cross Road last night. It was a very quick read so I finished it in a couple of hours. It was fantastic! I couldn’t put it down, I just wanted to keep reading the great letters between Helene Hanff and the little book shop. This book is cozy and wonderful and full of life. Read it!
A popular pleasure for Sydney visitors and residents alike is the Zoo ferry. This was my regular commuter ferry for years, long ago. We rode it over to the Zoo wharf and back, just for fun. You can see by the colours it is one of the green and yellow Sydney Ferries.
A Manly ferry is passing as the Lady Northcott pulls out of Circular Quay. I love the juddering of the ferry as it makes way, the cheery words for the captain greeting us as he enters his cabin, the familiar sights all around.
In a minute or so we are level with the Sydney Opera House, tourists lining the rails to take photos. I remember watching it during the years of construction and furor, when the Danish architect Joern Utzon eventually felt compelled to leave as his design for the interior was severely compromised by the NSW government.
Looking back towards…
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I’m really fearful of letting go of my aspirations.
I’m scared of the judgement I hear in people’s voices when I tell them I’m going to move home when I graduate. I’m even more scared by their disdained faces when I tell them I’m saving up because I’m going to travel instead of getting a ‘real’ job.But what’s more terrifying is not following my dreams.
Okay, it may be unorthodox to backpack instead of going straight into the employment cycle without any real plan for afterwards, but what dictates employment as the norm? I understand I may be making a mistake by putting my career on hold for two years, but for me it doesn’t feel like a mistake. I have my whole life to work 40+ hours a week at the same desk in the same city doing the same job. I’m scared of monotony. I’m worried I won’t…
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Ok, so it has been a long lazy day today. You know those days when you wake up and decide “Hey, I’m not going to do anything today.” I meant to do nothing yesterday but never found the time so I found time today.
I woke up, ate breakfast, had a cuddle, fell asleep, was woken being put back in the cage, fell asleep again, waited for veggies, ate veggies, fell asleep, fresh hay arrived, ate some hay, cuddled in it and fell asleep again.
You see, today Mummy was doing lots of tidying and she was very busy. I didn’t mind having a lazy day and watching Mummy ran around like a crazy thing but the others complained continually. It’s like this young things just don’t get it.
Are lazy days out of fashion? Am I behind the times, living in the past? When did every single day turn…
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This has been a year of lots of ‘stuff ‘…
Stuff we have had to deal with…the fire, the fences, lack of rain, way too hot, not enough irrigation water, loved ones passing on over to the other side…you know all those things that make up every day living, but also sort of wear you down.
But last evening…across the pinto bean field and the corn field right over our house
This rainbow appeared.
We were not home at the time, but our son-in-law happened to see this sign from the Heavens
And emailed it over to us!
I am delighted!
It spans our farm from the middle to the end—-an amazing gift of
HOPE!
Linda
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