A Handful of Charms
My parents are in the process of selling our family home. They built it thirty years ago, finishing it just in time for the arrival of my older sister, extending… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Back in Sydney
Rush
Time keeps moving in increments, Spring keeps blooming and Summer keeps nipping at its heels like an impatient puppy. I had forgotten how Spring here arrives in a rush, like… Continue Reading
10 years
The thing about time, about life, is it just keeps going. I had my ten year high school reunion on the weekend. Against all mythology and pop cultural rules, it… Continue Reading
A Long, Hot Summer
It’s going to be a long, hot summer here. Yesterday was 32 degrees and it’s only September. Warnings have already started about bushfire season with conditions the worst they have… Continue Reading
Context & Clarification
A few weeks ago, to his great excitement, SG was gifted a book on Australia. The book came courtesy of his father, who places a great deal of value on… Continue Reading
Tea, Coffee & Assessment Detritus
Recent radio silence, a consequence of the last week of an intensive month-long ESL course, will now end with a post of twofold purpose: to have a look at what’s… Continue Reading
Floral Sentiments
My Mum says I am a Victorian, because I have a thing for flowers. Not just because they’re pretty and they smell nice (although those two reasons are obviously key)… Continue Reading
Windows Down
Yesterday I turned up Garth Brooks and drove to Windsor. I belted out Callin’ Baton Rouge with the windows down, pausing only to pull into McDonalds and get a take… Continue Reading
Cracks
I have been having a bit of a love-in with Sydney these past couple of weeks. Perhaps it is the weather, perhaps it is the location of my course –… Continue Reading
Fertile Lands
While scanning my reduced bookshelves the other day (most of my things are either in storage or in Germany) I saw a book I didn’t recognise. A slim volume, it… Continue Reading
One Fine Morning
I am doing a teaching course at the moment that is both incredibly intense and based right in Sydney’s CBD. The former means I have had little time to do… Continue Reading
The Other Side of the World
It was a beautiful morning in Sydney this morning, the sky so blue and the sun up before I was. God that felt good, to make a cup of tea… Continue Reading
‘I Always Cry on the Bridge’
Just last night, I was talking with a friend of mine who lives in Hong Kong and had popped back to Sydney this week for a little surprise visit. She… Continue Reading
65 years
I was sitting in the doctor’s surgery yesterday, reading a battered WHO magazine that was actually relatively recent, when an old man and his walking stick took a seat nearby…. Continue Reading
And There She Was
We were, of course, late. We started off with plenty of time, time enough to think putting the kettle on and percolating a pot was a good idea. In hindsight,… Continue Reading
Around
One of the best things about this blog (or the best?) is its readership. The comments I get are not only extraordinarily flattering (something I respond almost too well to)… Continue Reading
How Are You Settling In?
Through a series of decisions entirely my own, I seem to have recently entered into a somewhat permanent state of settling in. Perhaps not so recently, actually, perhaps since September… Continue Reading
Marching On
Time marches on, the days get a little warmer – even though the weekend delivered us frosty winds and sporadic rain – and we keep doing what we do. We… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad
Decisions, Decisions
Making the decision to leave Germany and come home for a little while wasn’t an easy one and was ultimately driven by two things; I was homesick and Weiden just… Continue Reading