May 17, 2022 | COVID-19, Cruising, Life on SV Nichola, Sailing, When life hands you lemons
Are you talking about ‘BC’? Have you noticed that people are beginning to drop ‘BC’ into conversations these days? The BC that they are referring to is Before Covid and definitely not the BC we learned about at school. At the beginning of 2020,...
Dec 4, 2021 | Communicating, Communication, COVID-19, Gardening, Self Care
Standing with my bare feet on the pathway in my shade house, I remember my partner, Ken and I collecting those stones from beaches a short distance from our home. We borrowed his mother’s shopping trolly and filled it to the brim on each trip. We spent many...
Jul 25, 2021 | COVID-19, Cruising, Road Trip, Self Care, When life hands you lemons
Despite COVID-19, the time since the pandemic hit us has been an amazing one for me. As I reflect on how fortunate I have been, I find myself feeling guilty because my year has been so much better than others in the world. The year 2020 began with us circumnavigating...
Feb 15, 2021 | Communicating, COVID-19, Self Care, When life hands you lemons
Yesterday I flew from Hobart to Flinders Island. Until then, the only time I wore a mask was on the few occasions that I used a sanding machine. One of the signs around Tasmanian airports Everyone in the Hobart airport terminal is wearing a face mask. This is unusual...
Aug 12, 2020 | COVID-19, Girl Talk, Learning by doing, Self Care, When life hands you lemons
Being bombarded continually on the news and in social media by the COVID-19 situation has become tedious indeed. The situation in Victoria and Melbourne in particular, with people flaunting the restrictions and behaving in ways that put ‘us’ at risk, has...
May 11, 2020 | Communicating, COVID-19, Girl Talk, Parenting In The Digital Age, Photobook Fun, Photography for Kids
As the reality of the Coronavirus pandemic begins to make itself felt all around the world, there has never been a greater need to have something fun and positive to do. Most of us are in serious isolation or ‘lockdown’ and coming to terms with how to fill...
