Year: 2020
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Deadlines or No Deadlines, It’s Your Choice
Most people meet deadlines head-on. I’m not one of them. Approaching deadlines are some kind of sub-conscious signal for me to drift off into another dimension, totally oblivious to whatever else has to be done. I had been working on an article since before COVID-19 hampered the travel plans of half the planet, or was…
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Where Will This New Challenge Take Me?
The Ultimate Blog Challenge is a great tool for writers – as long as you keep writing. It doesn’t work if you skirt around it, doing everything but write. So where will this new challenge take me? Only time will tell. Having a glitch in the system on Day One was enough to derail this…
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The Wheels Fell Off But I’m Back, Did You Miss Me?
The October Ultimate Blog Challenge started, and almost ended for me after just one blog post. I was there, then I wasn’t. Did you notice my absence? Did you miss me? After I posted the first blog on my site, I linked it on Facebook, read two other posts and made comments – as per…
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How COVID-19 Stole My Mojo!
COVID-19 STOLE MY MOJO! And I want it back! I did the right thing and isolated like I was supposed to. When I went to the shops for the bare essentials, like Gelato, I wore a mask, scrubbed my hands, kept my social-distance, and sanitised everything! But for some reason, locking the doors to the…
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It Has Been A Long Time Between Drinks
My last post, way back in February, was ‘One More for the Road’. And all I can say now is that it has been a long time between drinks. Today is the first day of August, and I regret not having come back to my blog since the beginning of the year. Back in January,…
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Have One More For The Road
We have a reputation for being a drinking nation – here in Australia, and one of the phrases I grew up with was ‘have one more for the road’. I heard it a lot when I was young; and my dad could be the very reason Australia earned the reputation. Dad loved a cold beer…