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Category: LIFE & LIVING

Life, and animal sanctuaries

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Sarah

I wake up to the light of the day peaking in behind the blinds. My sheets, needing a change, are all crumpled up beneath me. I reach over for my phone, 9.08am. Dave pops his head in. “Are you keen to go to Healesville?” I smile, and nod. Truth be told I would probably opt…

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Ranty humanitarian advocate – that’s me!

Posted on October 6, 2021March 21, 2022 by Sarah

Over the past, oh I don’t know, decade maybe, I have become really ranty. Friends, family and those of you who have followed me for some time in my other blogs will know this. I can’t quite decide if this is cultural, or perhaps an age thing, or perhaps a social media thing. Probably the…

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Life is short

Posted on June 13, 2020August 20, 2020 by Sarah

I’m documenting my journey. 2020 is honestly proving to be a rather challenging year and I need to make sense of it in my head. I’m lying in bed as I write this. Nearly 11am, still in my pjs with the electric blanket on. I feel the cold so much. I have so many days…

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The Contract

Posted on February 10, 2020March 21, 2022 by Sarah

“You’re not actually going to paint that?” “That’s exactly what I am going to do.” “It’s sacrilegious. It’s covering up beautiful timber.” There was nothing beautiful about this piece. The coffee table just sat there – worn, weather beaten from being outside for too long – as we discussed its merits. It was a dirty…

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Change is on the horizon

Posted on November 23, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

It’s been a while since my last post. The person about whom I wrote in that last post, read it and took to my personal FB page to tell me what a bully and an awful person I was in glorious detail.  I thought by omitting her name, or indeed any personal detail about her,…

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The rambling recesses of my mind

Posted on September 15, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I’ve been going through a thing. And it has been so hard to talk about, to compartmentalise, to rationalise, indeed to live. The thing itself has been harrowing enough, but it is the soul reaching thoughts and feelings that have left me reeling. Mr C and I were watching TV the other night; sometimes I…

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Coming home

Posted on August 8, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I’ve been away. Two and a bit weeks ago Mr C decided I needed a break.  He had snagged himself a job (oh the relief!), and we had a little of the redundancy money left, so he decided to send me back to the UK to where my dad lives.  Just between you and me,…

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Work and longing

Posted on July 14, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

And so it has arrived. The relief.  The overwhelming unadulterated release. After 10 months and 4 days of unemployment, Mr C has finally been offered a job. He got the phone call.  I heard him talking.  I knew it was THE call.  After three interviews, we hoped it would be what we wanted to hear….

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How the media is swallowing Mrs Peregrine and democracy

Posted on June 27, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

When I was 32, I decided I wanted to do a Creative Writing degree at Chichester University in the UK.  Since it had been some time since I had studied and I hadn’t already received a degree, I had to do an Access to Tertiary Studies course in the form of a Diploma of Liberal…

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Thoughtfulness Cards – acknowledging depression and suicide

Posted on June 25, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I’m depressed. There’s no coating it, there’s no glossing over it, and there is absolutely no point in pretending that I’m not having an episode of deep depression. There is an argument floating around that writing about dark stuff on a personal level reduces readers, that people don’t want to read about the horrors of…

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