Tag: Huon Valley
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Weekly Random Photos
Autumn Colour 1 Autumn Colour 2 Branch Silhouette Gloomy Hebe and insect Hebe and Bumblebee Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty 2 View from Lower Longley back to Huon Valley
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“I Don’t Do Happy”
I have a cousin who, when questioned about her life, would say “I don’t do happy”. For a while there I though this was quite a sensible thought. My life felt dark, empty, full of grief and sadness, and I couldn’t imagine that it would get better in any way that would allow me to…
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My good deed yesterday – Murder for Strangers!
Yesterday I committed a good deed, I committed a murder! I committed a murder, in mitigation I state that there was no particular malice aforethought, but there was a tiny bit of premeditation before the hit. My kind heart forced me in to it, because no matter how many people they asked, no-one else would…
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Joy for a job
My daughter got a job today, after being unemployed for over a year her joy glows brightly. I am so proud of you D1.
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Coffee
I’m not what you’d call a coffee snob with a percolator on the stove I don’t savour the aroma of brewed beans beneath my nose there’s no gleaming stainless steel machine just waiting to be used for espresso, cappuccino, or those funny ones called pods I possess no little doodad to froth or steam it…
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Ping Pong Balls in Vacuum
The ping pong balls are rattling in the vacuum of my head my little thoughts aren’t buzzing the electricity is dead. I stuck my finger in the socket hoping to find the spark but all i got was frizzy hair and pictures in the dark. I cranked up the generator and it started with a…
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Another little ramble in verse
Ritual deep in the dark they are gathered around the flickering light for now is the time of watching in the depths of the quiet night slowly the shapes they gathered and across their faces they flew now the ears they were listening to the song of the old, and the new quietly I stalk…
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Weekend Sleep-In
I love a weekend sleep-in there’s no sound of an alarm to shatter pleasant dreams and so I wake in peaceful calm. I love a weekend sleep-in when I’m snuggled in my bed all wrapped up in the doona with no worries in my head. I love a weekend sleep-in to wake up all refreshed…
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The Ginger Jar
It wasn’t where I left it, I’d looked on every shelf, “I would swear, I left it there” I muttered to myself. It wasn’t in the cupboard, I only found a sock, it wasn’t in the garden buried underneath the rocks. I looked under the table, but I couldn’t see it there, I even took…

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