New Year’s Eve – Midnight

Midnight It was amazingly quiet at midnight in our street. For a moment I thought our clocks must be wrong. I walked down the street to go down to the river and I heard the people on the corner counting down that last seconds to midnight. Yep, the New Year has...

Two mince pies and tea

Coming down to this house reminds me of the first time we came here. It was just after my 86 year old Dad had been diagnosed with Lung Cancer. I spent a lot of time on the front porch here talking to my Dad that year. While we were down here he was actually quite...

New Year’s Eve at Anglesea

[Updated 8/1/06] 8am It feels like it is going to be quite a warm day. I head out for my walk about 8:20. 9am I’m walking along the main beach and the wind has freshened up from the South and is quite cool. There are also threatening dark clouds inland. I wonder...

An absolutely beautiful day

It has been an absolutely beautiful day in Anglesea today. I have been talking to my daughters in Melbourne and apparently it has been really hot there. Not so here. It felt like it was going to get really hot this morning around 9am so I closed all the windows in the...

Familiar Places II

Written Tuesday 27th December 2005 We had a slow start to the day today. We were both really tired and enjoyed the sleep in. I often walk each morning when I’m here but not today. We went down to the Surfing Albatross for coffee. The ‘Albatross has changed...