Saturday, January 17, 2009
Oh dear...
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Still in week five, and still being positive
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Five weeks in
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
Through a wine glass, darkly prophetic
September 23rd 1990 - continued... We have been in Australia for three weeks – it seems much longer! I can’t buy a tablespoon (15ml), and wine glasses seem much bigger than we’re used to. There’s a moral there somewhere... I have discovered various snags and niggles along the way as you'd expect I...
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Friday, January 9, 2009
Week Two
The next few weeks went fairly quickly, finding somewhere to live and settling the children into new routines. We made the long trek to Sydney. It was a beautiful sunny day and we arrived in Seabrook at about 4 in the afternoon. Bella (from the plane) was very welcoming and has continued to be a...
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
A change of pace
We are still in Sepember, 1990, about one week after I started the journal. We are still in the ACT, it is still very cold, and we are about to leave for Sydney. Wednesday morning, a week later, and husband has telephoned the nice girl from the plane, getting up sufficient nerve to ask for her sofa...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Still only the first week
Arriving wearily in Jerrabomberra in the late afternoon we noticed straight away the biting cold. Australia does have cold weather... fancy that. People always seem to be surprised when I tell them that. We hadn't expected it would be quite so cold though, and most of our winter thngs were packed...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Last Leg
We left Singapore a little regretfully at 8pm, promising ourselves we’d be back someday to take in some of the many sights we’d missed in our thirty-six hours. Now we were on the last leg – to Australia! The kids were good at the airport, where we got changed for the cooler winter weather to come,...
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Second leg
I sound quite bright here. I had forgotten about being so ill before we left - Campilobacter can be quite debilitating, and was. The culprit turned out to be defrosted chicken, likely underdone, at one of the many barbecues we went to in the few weeks before we left. There were jokes about 'barbies'...
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The confusion begins
I begin this long memoir in September, 1990. When I look back, seventeen years of my life have been directed by others. I am on my own now, and while it's a little frightening at times, I sleep a lot better at night. Wednesday 5 th September, 1990 11:15pm It’s hard to believe that only a week ago we...
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