Author Archives: Mandy

So following on from my pre-Christmas post of 17 Dec approx, Shaun came home on 21 December and we got through Christmas and out the other side into the New Year, moving our lives into the sleepout.  District Nurses now … Continue reading →

Well things had been slowly progressing since the second biliary drainage tube was put in for Shaun and a lot more ‘yellow’ has drained out and his urine is turning lighter also.  However recently he has had some breathing issues … Continue reading →

So….let’s recap since my post of 3 December.  Shaun has a biliary drainage tube draining bile from his liver currently and a second one is being inserted today as the portal for the first one is either playing up, blocked, … Continue reading →

So here I am, no longer worried about silly things like gaining weight because today I weighed in at 53.9 kg through no effort at all.  Why?  My husband Shaun (after only a mere few weeks of being ill) has … Continue reading →

OK….so things are going slowly in the diet and exercise plan for me so far.  I started off like a rocket – I’d done a round of cycling and weed collecting and hardly eaten until lunchtime on the first day … Continue reading →

It’s been a year or two since I posted anything….wow!  So here I am back again – older and not necessarily any wiser.  Its mid 2020 (August), we survived Covid-19 (no need to talk about that, it will go down … Continue reading →

Well welcome to the New Year 2019.  I am not sure what to say about 2018…good and bad.  Well for a start the good – I completed a course – a Young Adult Writers Course and also a Vet Assistant … Continue reading →

So following on from my last post, here are a few pictures of the updated Gold Coast Apartment since we spent two weeks working hard on it with various other tradespeople.  We pretty much changed everything and attempted a blue … Continue reading →

Last year we bought an Apartment in Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast and for the past two weeks have been renovating it here in Australia.  Originally it had quite an ’80′s look to it and we wanted to make it a … Continue reading →

It takes me by surprise my love of the seasons sometimes…I dread to think we are now in Winter as from yesterday.  I loved the Autumn walnut and apple picking, the smell of stewing up orchard-fresh apples with cinnamon, nutmeg, … Continue reading →