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Category Archives: How to be eighty
Aboriginal women and NAIDOC Week 2018
Aboriginal people across Australia celebrate NAIDOC Week which starts today, Sunday 8th July, and goes to 15 July. Since since I was a very young woman, the paths of some Aboriginal women have crossed mine and enriched it it many different ways.
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Memory aids and monkey business
Memory aids. Think mnemonics, aide-mes or more boring, reminder notes and mind joggers. Think, if you must, of lists to aid memory, although I strongly believe are amazing creative props.
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July already? Checking on the year so far
Way back when this year was young, I brashly published a blog with my list of eighteen things I’d do in 2018.
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A Long Way From Home, Peter Carey – book review
A Long Way From Home by author Peter Carey, AO, made it to the Miles Franklin Award long-list this year (2018). Had it been successful, this book would have joined the author’s three other books with this distinction*.
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Spanish street names in Cervantes
Cervantes, a little fishing village on the Turquoise Coast, is one of my favourite places. It’s an easy drive, a whisker under 200 kilometres (123 miles) north of Perth in Western Australia.
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Knees, balance, research and reality
Knees and balance share a close relationship, but until I read Grandma Williams blog, I’d never heard of the combination. You wouldn’t believe how relieved I felt when I read it.
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La Sylphide, ballet and granddaughters
Tickets to the ballet, La Sylphide, formed part of John’s and my Christmas present from one of my daughters. The gift also included the company of my daughter and three of my adult granddaughters at the theatre last Saturday night.
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Ten reasons for writing every day
Writing every day might sound like hard work, but I really believe there are many reasons for taking up this rewarding practice.
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Seeing Singapore our way
Seeing Singapore our way meant that we reverted to our old habits. We’ve experienced two days of tourist brochure suggestions but we felt the need to do something different. This is not our first holiday here.
