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
Tag: Lismore
As my genealogical information reveals, Lismore has been the hometown for various members of my family for about 100 years. Although I’ve been living away, effectively, since the end of high school, it’s still home. “Do you still have family there?”, people will often ask me. The answer is YES, LOTS. My plan is retire home to Lismore sometime in the next 5-10 years.
"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
“Can we send you a pizza order for a lovely lunch?” a colleague told me today she had recently offered some colleagues in Lismore. “That would be lovely”, she was told, “Except we have no pizza places. They're all closed, due to the flood.”. My colleague told me this was a stark insight of how … Continue reading Sydney life and Lismore life