This book is a delight. It’s uplifting and made laugh during the sad bits and sniffle when things were rosy. The central character, Lily, an innocent, imaginative and optimistic young girl with a hunger for love that leads her toward it in magical ways. I adored it and just have to quote some of my […]

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Tonight I am putting up www.poohduck.com. I am hopeless at some aspects of blogging and I’ve been trying to get templates worked out and changed how I want them. I just don’t know enough yet! Thankfully Snoskred and Sephiroth have come to my rescue.
I wanted to take advantage of the new moon, so I have. […]

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When I began ‘Joh Blogs’ a couple of years ago, I made a blog for Andy too, but he didn’t get into it. He didn’t quite ‘get’ blogging at that time. When pushed to come up with a name for the blog I initiated for him, ‘poohduck’ was his chosen title, which captures his quirky, […]

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Picture by Andrew Calder, full moon reflection on Huon River, Tasmania.

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I wanted to take a photo of the cool patchwork hanging my Auntie Jude made me, to put on my blog today. It has gold and black paisley fabric on it and I love it. I’m having camera trouble though. I think I need to replace my rechargeable batteries. I haven’t used my camera as […]

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It’s done. There was too much to handle last week, but I did it! I feel good today. I still have a lot of mess to clear up, there was not enough time for Andy to handle everything that needed doing. He had a lot more stuff than he realised. It won’t take long though […]

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On Saturday the removalists will come and take all Andy’s stuff to his new home in Tasmania. He has spent this week dismantling and packing it all up. It’s been challenging for me to be honest having everything around reminding me. I have missed him.
I am lucky I am back at school because letting go of someone […]

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I’ve had a busy couple of days. I was back in the city yesterday and stayed last night. I visited my daughter today and enjoyed spending a few hours with her. Then it was out to the airport to collect Andy. He’s back to collect his stuff, now that the move to Tassie is permanent. […]

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I promised to post a picture of my mosaic table. This table has many pleasant vibes attached to it. I enjoyed the course, which was an afterschool PD ran by two of our wonderful Art teachers at school. We attended two afterschool sessions and the two teachers spent a lot of time preparing for the […]

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I won’t be celebrating New Years Eve in a traditional way. There will be no crowds and groggy celebrations for me. I hope that all those I love will be safe.  The past two years I have been travelling at this time, on my way to Wollongong last year and Broken Hill the year before, with Andy. This year I am […]

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