( at bedtime) P ( five year old ): can I stay in this house forever? Me:  Of course, how long did you have in mind? P:    Until I ...

(no, not here, this is an undemolished house around the corner from home)  If had been sitting in my current office working away as a ...

After last year, where I took 45 (officially noted) days of sick leave (which felt like double or triple that amount), it has been very busy...

I have mentioned before that due to distractions like chemo I did nothing at all to the house last year.  So this year I have been on a clea...

Our garden is mostly a winter garden, due to all the camellia trees, and they are just coming into flower now: I t is only when I attem...

I was at a meeting this week and someone made a (reasonably tasteless) joke about getting cancer from a power line.  People laughed awkwardl...

Down the (newly granulated) windy path, and past the forest of iron bark gums*: Up through the bend, under the shade of wattle trees:  ...