The Don's Meddle

Love counting down until a holiday and I feel after the shite that has gone down in the last few months a week off on an island with my amazing husband is going to be just what we need. A week on Hamilton Island will be the kickstart we both need after a busy first half of the year. I look forward to no mobile phone reception, lots of fresh air, no public germ transport, walks, no tv,  kayaking, swimming & exploring before we come back to get stuck into our health & fitness kickstart Jones challenge. To shed the pounds we have stored (thinking we are bears going into hibernation) and getting us back on board the health & fitness wagon that we have jumped on and off the last year. Mentally, physically fit & healthy please.  Having turned 41 this year and wanting to start a family I think we have both been reminded that life is short and shit happens (miscarriage, two cousins with cancer and a horrible scare with my dad having a mild stroke a month ago).  We have t

Another Hallmark holiday but a good reminder to give extra love & thanks to the woman who birthed you (or raised you), bathed you, wiped your backside and burped you and who was there for all the good and bad times growing up and even still as an adult.  Mum's are the best. I know mine is the best ever. So many stories I could tell you about growing up with mum being there for me,  it would take forever.  I always feel a little sad as my mum isn't in the same city as me, but we chat often and see each other a few times a year & love buying something little to send her that I know she loves. This year was humbugs and Ginger Fudge from Hobart and a gorgeous printed scarf. Lovely.  I am so lucky and grateful that my mum is still here, where so many others don't have their mums with them. Grateful. I have always wanted to be a mum.  There was a few years back in my early thirties that I honestly didn't think I would get the chance.  But so glad I do now.  I

Cannot believe we are in May already and I am posting Week 18 from Fat Mum Slim's photo-a-day challenge, I do believe this is the first time I have stuck to every month since starting the challenge a few years ago (I started it at the end of another 365 photo-a-day challenge).  This week was a little challenging as I wasn't feeling very inspired but managed to capture a few things. 27 In My Bedroom Had a little clean out and found the secret hiding place I put our wedding certificate last year.  Good to know where it is now in my bedroom. 28 Prepare Martin Place the night before the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in Bali.  A moving vigil for people to come together and pray for a final miracle for these two boys to not be shot by firing squad.  Sad that capital punishment is still functioning in many countries.  29 I walked here Have been lacing up the new sneakers and pounding the pavement a lot more, walking here, walking there wherever I