Do you ever see wild animals?
Living in the outer suburban fringe of Melbourne i occasionally see the odd lost kangaroo in nearby streets. I also occasionally see the odd wild rabbit in the distance. It has been awhile since I have been to the zoo and hope to visit the Werribee Open Range Zoo in the not too distant future ❤️. I also love seeing Australian fauna like koalas and wombats and platypuses, but I never would usually see them in the wild.
Do you have a favorite place you have visited? Where is it?
The favourite place I have visited would have to be New Zealand. In particular the seaside village of Akaroa and the city of Auckland. It was also amazing to see Milford Sound from the cruise 🛳 ship. Now Zealand would have to be the most beautiful country on 🌎 earth.
What is one thing you would change about yourself?
Probably the one thing I would change about myself is that at times I am too caring and that this negatively impacts my mental health. Even my psychiatrist praises me for being a caring person but he tells me that at times I am too caring. By that he referring to the time that my concern over a friends behaviour and worrying about her and her children caused an onset of my mental health issues. I try always to do the right thing and worry too much and care too much for the people in my life.
However, as I age and become wiser this caring side of me grows wiser and don’t let myself worry so much that I become unwell. I have learned the hard way that nothing is worth worrying about so much that it impacts my health. It is a harsh lesson that I needed to learn.. I am a far wiser person than I was a couple of years ago.
Are you more of a night or morning person?
I am definitely more of a morning 🌄 person. I usually wake up between 6.00am and 7.00am. I enjoy walking 🚶♂️ Lily of a morning in the fresh crisp morning air. I am more productive of a morning 🌄 and tend to do my writing ✍️ in the morning, as I am doing now. By late afternoon my brain is foggy and I tend to put my phone on charge overnight around 6.00pm because by that time my mind is foggy and I can’t have serious conversations at that time. I tend to talk to people and make my appointments for earlier in the day.
Today is the first day of summer here in Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 and it is wintry weather. There are storms and heavy rain and cold 🥶 temperatures. It is hard to believe that in 2 days time we are expecting heat around 32 degrees. Lily loves her creature comforts when it is wet and stormy and this image is about how much she loves being warm and dry when it is pouring outside.
Bring on summer ☀️ soon. At least in Melbourne we have interesting weather, four seasons in one day.
What are your two favorite things to wear?
I know I have answered this question before and I would have to say that nothing has changed. My two favourite pieces of clothing are any of the many things given to me by Susanna. The green 💚 dress she gave me as a Christmas gift when she was still alive and the formal black and gold dress 👗 she bought me for the cruise 🛳 would have to be my favourites,but I so rarely get to wear them. Amongst my comfortable day to day clothes my favourite would be the demin shirt dress 👔 that Kathryn gave me when she took me shopping 🛍 the last time I was in hospital 🏥 nearly 3 years ago would be my favourite.
I love the felling of being inspired and in the right headspace to write. I am feeling great because I had been experiencing writer’s block when it came to my my recent book The Angel Lady. I’ve just felt compelled and inspired to write more and added about two pages to the story in the time frame of about 20 minutes. I feel exhilaration and immense happiness that my writing ✍️ drought about where to go next with the story is over. Yeah I feel good. If I could work out how to attach the novel to this post I would.
Early this morning I awoke from the type of dream I often have about a boy from my secondary college called Adrian Fumani. Adrian was a guy I had a secret crush on in my final year of secondary school. It was so secret that the only person who knew was my friend Vicki, and to this day Vicki has kept my secret.
Adrian was one of the in crowd at school. He may have had an italian name, but he definitely was part of the group of Aussie guys at school who were into surfing 🏄♂️, Midnight Oil, Hunters and Collectors etc.
I can remember dancing with him and his friends to the Daddy Cool song 🎵 Eagle Rock at the year 12 end of year formal. Now whenever I hear Eagle Rock I think of Adrian and that formal.
Unfortunately Iife went on and the last time I saw Adrian was during my days at Melbourne University where I think Adrian may have been studying engineering. The last time I saw him it was at a concert in Melbourne University’s grounds by Mark Seymour the lead singer of Hunters and Collectors. I remember seeing Adrian in the audience.
So I don’t confuse my readers I have a close mate called Adrian for many years now, but he is not a past crush like Adrian Fumani. It is only today that I have found the courage to write ✍️ of my teenage crush because from time to time on a semi regular basis I dream of my teenage crush. They are always similar dreams and Adrian still looks like the young man of my memories. Isn’t it funny how people never age in our dreams.
Thank you Vicki for keeping my secret safe for so many years. I have good memory of high school because of what a good friend Vicki was.
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