Blog posts regarding my trip to Australia for my 70th Birthday in June!
How Far Should You Go? Working out how far you should go, whether other people mean what they say and how far they should go before you take offence is a nightmare so would you like this? I didn’t and my friend didn’t either.Her support worker noticed that K, or as her parents call her, […]
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Meeting day Lisa and I had arrived safely in Dubbo where it promised to be a packed couple of weeks, full of excitement and the fulfilment of a dream now coming true.We were going to go to a café on the Wednesday before my birthday on the Saturday but once K’s parents came, we got
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Zoo Time On the Tuesday after arriving in Dubbo, a very kind support worker of K’s who has known her since she was a child, took the time to take us all Taranga Western Plains zoo. I thought it’d be like a British zoo where you could hear and even smell the place but far
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Destination Dubbo I spent the time before flying to Australia worrying in case the planes came down and the fact that Lisa’s children would be left motherless and it would all be my fault although she did offer to go with me to see my friend K. I thought of us floating about in the
The anxiety is really building now because June is here. It’s about eighteen days or so till Lisa and I head off to the land of Oz to see K, family and support workers who help her. At present the poor girl (well that’s how I think of her) has covid so is resting and
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They say that every journey begins with a single step but surely every journey starts as a single thought which turns into an idea which then turns into plans until finally ””the plan takes shape and gathers momentum until the cases are packed, tickets bought and hotels or apartments reserved.Step by step, come with me
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