Today it is eight years since John had his stroke. The week has also included Valentine’s Day. John and I didn’t usually make a big deal about Valentine’s Day but that year he planned a weekend away. So we went the weekend before. We had a beautiful room in the Blue Mountains looking straight down […]
Tag: Love
The Long, Lonely Walk
I’m walking this month to raise funds for stroke awareness and stroke rehabilitation. I’ve commoitted to 300km for the month of November, an average of 10km per day. Today, my birthday (I’m 54) I walked 11km. Walking.We all do it, every day.I spend most of my time figuring out how to do as little as […]
Cheese
I was eating some rather smelly washed-rind cheese this evening. I’m rather fond of the stuff, every now and then. I remembered a time (back in the day) when I had bought some and it had stunk out the car in the time taken to transport it from shop to home. John was rather cranky, […]
Lost in Translation (Collaroy)
Today I lost my phone. When I say lost, I mean that it fell down a drain at Collaroy. It’s now most probably floating out to sea with some grommet. Every Saturday morning I visit my dear friend Jo at Hair Salon Des Arts at Newport. I’m happy to be the guinea pig for her […]
Seven Years
Yesterday marked the seventh anniversary of that cataclysmic day. Seven years, where did that time go? That’s what people say when they speak of their children growing, time passing, growing old. John’s stroke was always going to be the five-year project, something we’d get through, overcome. Some lessons have been learned since then: You can’t […]
Knitting
It’s Sunday, a balmy summer evening in Sydney with a cool nor-easterly blowing in. I’m knitting. I’ve had a difficult few months. The optimism I’ve always had, and treasured, deserted me and I had been wondering why I should even try to continue living. Last Sunday I took advantage of a rare coincidence of a […]
Call the Ambulance
For almost all of the time that I have known John, he had asked me to promise, and I did, many times, not to call an ambulance if I found him unconscious. He knows how I think, that I put great faith in modern medicine, and that with love and support and science, any medical […]
Spring Weekend
He’d be asleep now, It’s 7:43pm and it’s dark. Spring. I have flowers in the house, Picked from the garden this evening. All around I can hear neighbours With friends over, Smell their barbeques And listen to their joy. That used to be us, Boy at the barbie, Me inside, Organising the salads. Spring. So […]
The Story of Max and Oscar
It was the closing night of the Sydney Olympics. Our young Labrador Charlie was safe in our back yard and we headed up to Beacon Hill to watch the panorama of the fireworks across Sydney and up the Parramatta River. Yes, you can see the Parramatta River from the northern beaches. Sadly, a friend who […]
Six Years – Love and Beauty
It was six years yesterday. A time to think about all that has happened in all our lives in that time. This time of year is very, very difficult. It begins with my mum’s birthday on Feb 13 and ends with our wedding anniversary on Mar 13. In between is Valentine’s Day (our last weekend […]