It started out as a normal day. Having breakfast, doing the dishes, putting on the washing, mopping the house……Then “it” started. Someone close to us was living in the close vicinity of a positive Covid test and the whole housing complex was put into isolation. Actually the whole street has to be tested and then stay in isolation. Then the area of impact of possible infection got expanded. The phone calls started. The discussions of who has enough food, essentials. Who needs extra help? Any neighbours in need? Have you had your covid-test yet? All the questions. So it ended up two members of my family came to stay so…

I walked into the room because I could hear crying. Four of my grandchildren were sleeping over because their Mum and Dad had gone out to dinner. My daughter asked if “they could sleep the night, go to Church with you and be picked up the next day after lunch?” And so they did. They were all in the tv room. Charlotte who is 11, Eden 10, Aubrey who is 6 and Willow who is 3. They had just finished watching a movie. Trying to find a movie that they are all interested in watching together does not work so well anymore as the age gap gets extended from preteen…

We moved into our existing house about nine months ago. A house that is 20 odd years old and has very low maintenance needed on the property which suited both Bruce and me. On the day the furniture removalists arrived there was a knock at the door, even though the door was wide open. Bruce went to answer the knock and that is when we first met George. George is a wonderfully gentle man of 87 years. Reminds me of Mr Miyagi, a Japanese karate master in the movie Karate Kid. He would come to the previous owners every six weeks or so and prune and manicure the bushes and…

Do you sometimes feel you are just going through the same motions? Nothing has changed. Just a different day, a different date, a different year but same same? It feels like the last few months of last year. Why? I feel that I have not got into the rut yet. But I am very close.  The rut? A Ditch. A long deep track made by the repeated passage of the wheels of vehicles or a habit, a pattern of behaviour that has become dull and unproductive that is hard to change. Ok, going upon these descriptions I am in a rut. And it’s only the beginning of the year!!!! So,…

I had plans. Actually I had plans upon my plans. I had a few days off, so I had made a list of things I wanted to do. Things I wanted to achieve or start even and things that would relax me as we all headed into a New Year. They did not eventuate. The day after Christmas Day I felt exhausted! I thought surely I had not overdone it that much in preparation for the day and on the day. Yes, when it is at your house you don’t sit down much the whole day. I had been up at 6am to prepare the turkey and stuff it with…