A debt drawdown from April 2020 It's been a while since I tagged a post about money. Beware, this is boring. I'm trying to decide if debt recycling is a waste of time. In April 2020 we owed $241,878 against our Coffs Harbour home. We redrew an additional $200,000 to buy our Broken Hill house. The ATO see redrawn...

Not sure I do... All of my life I have loved the letters my Ma writes. Likewise she has a knack for picking out beautiful books to read. I thought I'd had a brainwave last January when I bought her a Storyworth for her birthday. The idea behind the service is that the family provide writing prompts and my Ma writes....

Across Beryl St to the Line of Lode Living in Broken Hill is a comfortable existence. The town has a population of less than 17,000 yet punches above its weight when compared to other similarly sized or bigger yet duller country towns. Sorry Dubbo. I am talking of course of the sights available to the urban...

The night's have become cold. Winter has arrived here in Broken Hill. Winnie, a creature of habit, likes to sleep outside. I wrap her up now before bed like a burrito. Good Dog. ... Permalink

How very true We took Uncle J to Silverton today. First off was a visit to the Mad Max Museum. A busy little place crammed with oddments and props from the two Mad Max movies that were filmed hereabouts. My next car? After poking around that stuff we headed down to the pub. Amongst all the bric-a-brac there were...

The big chook was out walking my way Winnie was in the back of the ute. she thought this chook looked out of her league. ... Permalink

a still from the Hal-An-Tow live stream Yesterday it was Flora Day back in my home town, Helston. I sadly could not make it on account of time and geography. A local computer shop kindly connected a bunch of cameras to YouTube and streamed the dances for the benefit of us cousin Jacks and Jenny's. The stream of...

Central-vs-South We just spent the evening trying to understand football. Here is a shot of H hanging out with one of the other team. ... Permalink

Awake at 4, rereading your post from when you lost phone contact; had to get an ID and Trump won the election. Goodness me. I should probably log in to the microblog and annoy people in other time zones. But like Lance I'm in a tilt-a-whirl - but about social media (not a new age girl). The internet just doesn't...

Snapped these two at the Crystal St junction Day off work today and I didn't stop for a moment, until now. Gym; ran over and back Round Hill; trip around town picking up supplies; made bread and soup for tonight; back to butchers to get scraps for the dog; cleaned the pool and now I'm installing Debian on an old...

I had another blood test for no particular reason. Four years ago I went to a GP about a sore ear. There were multiple follow-ups but at no point was my ear given any attention. Despite or because of this the ear recovered. As I was over 50 the GP delightedly sent me for blood tests. That led to an an ultrasound....

To avoid the crowd I took this from the far end of the beach in Queenstown On the flight from Queenstown yesterday I found myself observing the passenger diagonally in the seat ahead of me . Specifically I had a perfect view of their large phone screen in the gap between the seats. I was too dopey to read and had...