Thursday, May 7, 2009
Triple Therapy
What a week. Checked in with the secular counsellor on Monday, feeling perfectly calm and ordinary. These pills are good. Two days later, coffee with the heartbreaker, who is so affable and amenable that I almost can't believe it... I hadn't forgotten that it was his birthday this week, and gave him...
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Home is... where, exactly?
It's very strange, or maybe it's the medication that keeps me stable, but a change has come over me which allows me to not even think about anything beyond the immediate. My home, the place that was such a pull when I was going through all sorts of hell towards the end of 2007, is a dim presence in...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Back to the immediate future?
O Lord, what am I doing with my life? I put up with being overseas here, with a controlling and progressively worsening husband, two strong and challenging children, and I did that for six and a half years, surviving a third bout of depression (in this so-wonderful marriage my husband thinks we...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Safe Haven
Back 'down-under' again, I'm noticing this time that it bothers me less and less the way things are done here. I have a different perspective, as a separated woman trying to pick up the pieces and find things that can work. Living here alone, I find that I am changing. I am being asked where I'm...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Currently...
All day today in the much cooler weather, noisy crows have been chattering in the courtyard outside the office window. The torrential downpours of the last two days have been more than welcome, reminding me of home. My two colleagues and I have been fairly quiet, busy with our work... an easy and...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Skip nine years: part two
22 nd November 1999 Our uneasy truce still wavers. I got another glimpse of the undercurrent at the mall today while miscommunicating (again). He tried to corner me into saying “who” I’d still got to buy for. I said I’d prefer to finish it without him – non-antagonistically – and saw him start to...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Skip nine years, and ...
I realise now that I have begun this story that I don't have with me the nine years of journals between the end of 1990 and the year before we returned to Australia. So, for my long-suffering readers... 1999, as much as I have kept with me. There is more work to be done before this is publishable....
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
At the year's end
26 th December, 1990 Boxing Day. Some things remain constant between England and Australia. Going back to advertising the sales, here it is Boxing Day, 10:30 in the evening and I would say that they’ve been plugging these blooming sales since 7 o’clock when we switched on for The Wonder Years....
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Silly Season
Our first Christmas away from home. Friday December 21, 1990 We took the children to Darling Harbour for Christmas Carols by candlelight. The Wesley Mission put on a spectacular Christmas Pageant which was televised, and afterwards illuminated ships set out from Cockle Bay (further along from...
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Three months
Tuesday 11/12, 1990 Quite a gap. We have had fourteen weeks here now, past the three-month milestone. Very hard to feel content while we still miss our life in England so much. We are moving at the weekend and hope that this will make all the difference. It meant we would be able to take delivery of...
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