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Keeping tidy
Our house is back on the market after the original offer fell through. So we’re with a different estate agent. Yesterday their photographer came round. We spent a while cleaning the house, tidying up....
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A stressful day
100 word challenge – this week’s prompt is …and then I smiled… The day started full of frustration and stress. My view of the world was a little out of kilter. With a last minute appointment, I entered...
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100 words – house frustrations
They say that buying / selling a house is one of the most stressful things we do in life. I can vouch for that and we are only selling. The stressful elements include ….. ~ Keeping tidy for house...
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Pay it Forward
I have been very fortunate in this life. I’ve had a good job and earned a good salary. We’ve had a good standard of living, enjoyed nice holidays, experienced many different countries and cultures. I...
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100 word challenge – and so it begins
100 word challenge – this week’s prompt is … and so it begins. And so it begins … our countdown. This time next week, we board a flight to Australia. In these final seven days we will wind up our UK...
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Choosing somewhere to live.
Choosing somewhere to live is an interesting process. Aussie Mate and I first met when house sharing, back in the day. When we married our first home was determined by the mortgage we could afford,...
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A new home
We viewed a range of apartments before we found “the one”. There was a nice brand new build in North Hobart, large with a balcony, but views were of rooftops. The next apartment was closer to the size...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Mailboxes
This week’s challenge is “muse”. What subject keeps you coming back? A subject I keep returning to? … sunrise ? … beaches ? One subject that keeps appearing in my photos of recent months is mailboxes....
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Little Chicks
We have Masked Lapwing chicks on a small area of grass outside our windows. A public area than slopes down from the road and footpath, towards the river estuary. I’ve been watching birds whilst doing...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Happy Place
My happy place is Tasmania. This week’s photo challenge ties in perfectly with our six month anniversary of moving to this island state at the bottom of Australia. Tasmania is open space, nature, being...
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H is for …
H is for … Hobart Hobart is a small city nestled in the foothills of Mount Wellington, along the banks of the River Derwent estuary. It’s the second oldest settlement in Australia, after Sydney. On...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Path
This week’s challenge is to consider the journey we’ve taken this year or where we hope to go in 2017. I wonder how history will look back at 2016? Many of the global events and politics have been...
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10 minutes at the airport
Our journey began yesterday morning, as we left a sunny Hobart, where we navigated the small airport, from taxi, through check in and security, to the departure gate, in just 10 minutes. Hold that...
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“Stuff”
Two years ago our life changed. We packed “our UK life” into a five foot square storage unit, and travelled to Tasmania for an “adult gap year”. We’ve had a great time and for the foreseeable future,...
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Back to blogging from a new house
It’s been a few months since I wrote on this blog. I subconsciously withdrew from social media, I took fewer photos whilst our life became busy with the process of house hunting. After four years...
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