Emotions are strange, unpredictable things. I had a great time on Sunday night – DD hosted nibbles for some of his local friends. All the blokes were called David, which had the potential to be a little confusing, but we managed just fine. We sipped some delicious wines and DD provided his favourite hors d’oeuvres: […]

There’s something I didn’t mention about visiting my friend who passed away. She was in a Melbourne hospital. It was so freaky going to Sydney Airport for my flight. My sister was kind enough to give me a lift so I didn’t have to worry about public transport or breaking my single-mum budget. Walking into […]

My dad turns 80 tomorrow. Yep, the big 8-0. Wow that makes me feel old … I can’t even begin to imagine how it makes him feel! I’ll be wishing Dad a happy birthday via Zoom or some other new-fangled thing. He only lives two hours away in Newcastle, but I haven’t seen him since […]

You’ll be pleased to hear I don’t think I’ll die of alcoholism. I’m not sure I ever had the capacity for it, but it appears to be completely out of the question at age 52. I don’t have the stomach for excessive consumption of booze. A tipple, on the other hand, can be quite fun. […]

The youngest was meant to perform her solo routine at the World Skipping Championships in Ottawa yesterday. It popped up in my phone calendar: “CANCELLED: Junior World Skipping Championships”. We were supposed to drive to New York tomorrow to fly to Hawaii for a week. No aloha for us. Damn you, COVID-19. We had a […]

My heart is hurting – I lost a good friend over the weekend. Her name was Lorrae Joy Willox. She was only 68 years old when she passed away, which is far too young to be gone. I didn’t know her middle name was Joy until yesterday and I cried when I found out because […]

DD sent me a picture of his younger self last week and I’ve been staring at it on and off ever since. I’ve decided that while the concept of a younger him is exciting, I prefer the silver fox version. I try to imagine being in a relationship with the fresh faced fellow in the […]

My dishwasher is kaput. My knight in jeans and a black hoodie – aka DD – arrived yesterday morning to try and fix it. He ended up calling the manufacturer and got it working. But halfway through the cycle it went on the blink again. Cue another round of bailing the bloody thing out with […]

Was anyone else a little freaked out by the PM’s announcement that he was beefing up Australia’s defence capabilities by spending $270 billion to protect us in the “dangerous“ post-COVID-19 world? Far out it unsettled me. “We have not seen the conflation of global economic and strategic uncertainty now being experienced here in Australia, in […]

I forgot to tell you – a burly family popped over to my house on Saturday, hefted my art deco lounge suite into a trailer and drove it away. One of the blokes was so burly he simply wrapped his arms around an armchair, straightened up and strode out the door with it. The family […]