Blogtober Day 21

I had a beautiful walk to work this morning. The air was fresh and cool; the sun was peeking out from behind the clouds and the eucalypts are in full bloom. High in the treetops, the Magpies were warbling, the Rosellas and the Lorikeets were squabbling with each other over...

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Blogtober Day 19

As you know from a previous post, I have a problem with the pump in my fish pond. I’ve been checking on the fish every day since the pump stopped working, and they had been fine until yesterday. I feed them twice a day, once in the morning and then again in the early evening,...

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Blogtober Day 18

 I have been lazy this past week; I haven’t kept up with my Italian lessons; I haven’t written in my journal; my colouring supplies have been neglected and worse of all, I haven’t walked once this week when I usually walk 4-5 times a week. I know the reason for it, I’m...

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Blogtober Day 17

 I woke to sunshine and blue skies this morning a perfect day for doing the laundry. After I had hung the clothes on the clothesline, I sat down at the computer to work on the plan for the summer vegetable garden. I use Grow Veg, a subscription-based program that helps...

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Blogtober Day 16

My self seeded apricot tree in flower.Another cold day today. I feel like spring is never going to arrive this year. I had quite an easy day today. I finished cleaning the bathroom, the laundry, watered some houseplants and vacuumed the floors. I had another go at fixing the...

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Blogtober Day 13, 14 and 15

 I didn't post on Wednesday because I had nothing to write about, I went to work, I came home, that was it. Thursday was much the same except that for the first time in years I went late night shopping with my youngest daughter. I wanted to buy some fabric to make...

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Blogtober Day 12

I had just a few things on the agenda for today, the first being a visit to the pop-up blood donor centre. My family carries a genetic disorder called hemochromatosis which causes a build-up of iron in the blood. I don't have hemochromatosis, but I do carry two of the genes...

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Blogtober Day 11

 I had a very bad nights sleep last night, my wrist was so sore the pain kept waking me up throughout the night despite the fact I had taken painkillers before I went to bed. Today I will be taking it easy, I need to catch up on my journaling, I might do some colouring...

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Blogtober Day 10

Yesterday I was out in the garden in a T-shirt, today I'm wearing a jumper. Apparently, winter isn't quite finished with us. I'm not complaining, I am definitely more of a cold-weather person, and I don't look forward to the hot days of summer.I didn't have a lot to do today,...

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Blogtober Day 9

Today was a day of sunshine, blue sky and it was the perfect temperature (22°C) for working outside. I spent most of the day down in the vegetable garden weeding and digging up spent broccoli plants. I don't think I've ever had so much Milk Thistle in the garden before.The garden...

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Blogtober Day 8

 There were only two things I needed to do today, one was a visit to the doctors to get a referral to have an x-ray on my hip and the other was to get the results of an ultrasound I had a couple of weeks ago. The results were exactly what I thought they would be, but I...

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Blogtober Day 7

As I mentioned in my blog post yesterday I love history, I especially love ancient history. I enjoy watching shows about our ancient ancestors and how they lived so when I saw this book by Alice Roberts, who is an anthropologist and Professor at the University of Birmingham,...

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Blogtober Day 6

 Today is a workday for me. I work part-time at our town's cultural heritage centre helping to organize and catalogue the history of the town, which includes a large collection of books some of which are well over a century old.  At the moment I am collating all the...

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Blogtober Day 5

I slept in this morning after having had a very bad nights sleep due to a sore hip which I could put down to getting older, but my left hip has been giving me problems on and off since I was in my mid 30's, lately, it has been causing me a lot of pain more often. Arthritis?...

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Blogtober Day 4

 Hello everyone, I have decided to participate in Blogtober and write a blog post every day this month. I'll warn you now that some days will be boring, but I'm hoping that writing every day will get me back into the habit of writing more often than a few times a year.I...

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