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Category Archives: emotions
“Now you have”
It’s 03:30 and I’m walking down the Pacific Highway at North Sydney, on my way to work. It’s a 6 lane road with a small dividing median strip in the middle and I’m walking on the side with the traffic … Continue reading
A great way to spend a Sunday morning
I arrived at the SMH Half Marathon course yesterday just about the time the race was starting. I stationed myself at a point about 4.7 km into the race in the hope that by the time daiskmeliadorn reached me the … Continue reading
Posted in emotions, family, running
Tagged daiskmeliadorn, personal best, SMH Half Marathon, Sydney Frontrunners
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How much hope does a person need?
Hope for the future. It can emerge from an apparent wasteland like this sweet pea shoot in my garden. I planted thirteen seeds but only two have germinated. I suspect I am responsible for the low success rate. Maybe I should have … Continue reading
surviving
Last Monday I was on a white diet. On Tuesday that continued, and then in the afternoon my diet was restricted to just clear fluids. On Tuesday night I drank, with great distaste and difficulty, a litre of Moviprep, then waited … Continue reading
Posted in coffee, emotions, family, food, health, observations
Tagged Anton Enus, colonoscopy, daiskmeliadorn, diarrhoea, endoscopy, Moviprep, sourdough bread
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white diet – again
I picked up this freegan loaf of bread this morning. Normally I’d leave this kind of bread in the dumpster, but today is different. This is old-fashioned white bread. Bleached, refined, with no goodness or interest in it. Sadly, this … Continue reading
I should be somewhere else
I should be sitting on the toilet expunging the last remnants of faecal matter from my bowel with the assistance of a litre of Moviprep. But in fact, I’m sitting here. I should be on a Nil By Mouth regimen, … Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, emotions, family, food, health, work
Tagged colonoscopy, daiskmeliadorn, diet, endoscopy, hot cross bun, vegan
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mothering
Christ Church St Laurence has been connected with my family for a long time. It was reported that my eccentric great Aunt Bee regularly slept on the church grounds, with the apparent blessing of the rector. My daughter, daiskmeliadorn, attends … Continue reading
Posted in emotions, family, friends, music, observations, special days
Tagged B Minor Mass, Christ Church St Laurence, family, J.S.Bach, Jessica Lee, Josie Ryan, Lent, Mothering Sunday, St George's Paddington
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