
Sitting on a burial chamber – Sanday, Orkney Islands
There is a major update to my blog – I’m 60!
No longer are these the musings of a fifty-something but a sixty-something. Ten whole years ahead of me before I need to refresh on this topic – lucky you the reader!
How ironic that my desire to update my About page coincided with an urgent desire to listen to Bruce Springsteen.
He is like an old friend – wish he was!!
Springsteen has been with me for even longer than my favourite person, albeit only by a few years. Through my teens, 20s, 30s, 40s and yes my 50s! It was however only in my 50s that I finally saw him live, twice in fact.
Still, this is post is about my About page, Continue reading


Waking in the morning to the sounds of the birds, seeing the odd Kangaroo hop past our back door, it’s lovely but for all of this, we have one true menace. No it’s not the snakes, although the dog and I did see a four foot brown snake slithering down the street a couple of weeks ago, it’s the Cockies (Cockatoos)! There are thousands of them. They squawk raucously, strip the trees of leaves and pine cones and make a mess everywhere.
