I wrote last week about how a tree had damaged our home during violent weather conditions, and that I’d had to spend hours of my time on a virtual message chat with my insurer, that didn’t leave me satisfied that I’d be getting the correct answers. All I wanted to do...
Recently someone that I know had an unexpected medical diagnosis. This person, who has chosen to have regular preventive diagnostics on an annual basis since way back when, had changed her doctor to a new female GP [doctor] who during a routine examination wasn’t...
Two quotes came across my desk during the past two days… The first quote is one from Robert Stack, a favourite American speaker who I follow: “Experience has taught me that if you don’t fit in, you are probably doing the right thing.” I’ve been loving Robert’s...
It was so blowy at my home yesterday. It was that windy, it would blow a dog off a chain. Already in the previous eight days we’d had significant damage to three beautiful trees in our garden. And yesterday morning a fourth tree decided to drop a big part of itself...
Last weekend Jayne and I ventured interstate for a night away. We left early Saturday morning and arrived at our hotel at lunchtime, where we intended to have a sit down lunch before venturing out to a booked engagement in the afternoon. The restaurant where we ate...
Some of you know I’ve been house sitting up in Sydney this past week. I took a position looking after two small dogs at a home about fifteen minutes’ walk from where my father lives. He’s 91 years old and lives on his own. My sister who lives about 10-15 minutes’...
