"You made me a little bit teary tonight", I said to Felicity Urquhart as we embraced after her show at "The Vanguard" in Newtown. Felicity is a country music singer who actually comes from Tamworth, Australia's country music "capital".. "One of the daughters of Trish and Rex" she often likes to say. Though you might … Continue reading Happy Tears
I have been dealing today with a government agency requiring photo ID for an older family member, impacted by the disaster in Lismore. He's now too old for a driver's licence and has never been overseas, so he has no passport. To get a replacement birth certificate, he requires a photo id. To get a photo … Continue reading Can you still buy Rinso?
"It's almost back to normal, though they say it will be 2025 before it's really back to normal", my next-door neighbour commented as we spoke today. We often chat in the stairwell, or the common area, or outside the garbage room. She works in designing fabrics and furnishings for the hotel industry, and will often … Continue reading Live Shows Again
I have nothing profound to say, except that today marks twenty years since I started this blog.
How frustrating must it be to be a flight attendant? In the front row of six, there were only two of us paying any attention to the flight attendant's instructions for the emergency row. The woman to my right was engrossed in her book, the man next to her was going through photographs on his … Continue reading Exit Row
"Walking around Lismore after the first flood, when there was still mud around and large piles of trashed furniture out on the street made sense of what happened. But it doesn't make sense now", I said to Noreen who runs the Duck Pond Espresso Coffee Shop in South Lismore. "The night of the first flood … Continue reading Doesn’t Make Sense