What do you love about where you live? I love living right next to the beach and being able to walk there each day. There are egrets, rosellas, cocakatoos, gallahs, Australian crows, rainbow lorikeets, tawny frogmouths, dusky moorhens, superb fairy wrens. All flitter and flirt through the brush and low lying bushes near the beach withContinue reading “Beach walking and native birds”
Category Archives: A Day in the Life
Things To Bring Peace
What brings you peace? The peace that comes after a swim in a lake, river or the ocean, when allowing your body dry naturally in the hot sun. The peace of an animal friend placing their paw or head on your lap, in a quiet moment together. The peace of knowing that you did yourContinue reading “Things To Bring Peace”
A really questionable culinary decision
What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it? Yet another thing that nobody ought give a crap about. This is more a reminder to myself. A good few years back…you know that time….the golden era and halcyon days when there was no world war, before Trump, before covid, beforeContinue reading “A really questionable culinary decision”
Here are some simple joys that make me happy
List 30 things that make you happy. These are no doubt completely dull and boring to others. However, they serve as a potent reminder to myself all of the various humble pleasures of a simple and joyful life. For the dark times when I can’t see a positive world or can’t see a way throughContinue reading “Here are some simple joys that make me happy”
How I would describe myself to someone who can’t see me
How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you? This is difficult task to describe myself without talking about how I look but I’ll try. Can you describe yourself without referring to appearance? Let me know below in the comments how you would do this. Here’s mine: Quick moving and dynamic especially whenContinue reading “How I would describe myself to someone who can’t see me”
Eclectic colourful maximalism design aesthetic
I’ve found an approximation of the design style I love and have always instinctively wrapped myself up in – like an old comfy jumper. In terms of clothes, how I decorate homes I’ve lived in, this blog….eclectic maximalism. Not that anybody else would give a s*** really but I’m leaving this here as a noteContinue reading “Eclectic colourful maximalism design aesthetic”
Travel: A floaty late summer serenade in Munich 2008
Walking through a majestic and manicured gardens in Munich I heard a delicate and heartfelt serenade on the violin from a faraway stone rotunda. I walked there and took a seat among two people who appeared in a stupor of enjoyment. They were both sitting in the late afternoon sun, lulled into a dream by theContinue reading “Travel: A floaty late summer serenade in Munich 2008”
10 things I know for certain
List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain. People will remember you for your love and goodness not how hard you worked or how much money you made. Learning new things in areas that interest you is always going to benefit you and create joy in your life. Nothing is certain in the world,Continue reading “10 things I know for certain”
The end of endless growth
What are you most excited about for the future? Endless growth is the mantra of wealth funds, publicly listed companies and well-to-do boomers and aspirational designer clothing wearing millennials. It’s the catchcry of neoliberal flavours of capitalism. The only problem – and it’s a significant one – is that we live in a natural worldContinue reading “The end of endless growth”
Travel: A roadtrip through the remote Eastern Cape, New Zealand
People seldom visit the Eastern Cape of the #NorthIsland because of its complete isolation from the rest of #NewZealand #Aotearoa. Here are some humble gems from this oft forgotten edge of the world #travel #beach #roadtrip
