Like many Australians, I’ve always adored the Hunters and Collectors song, Throw Your Arms Around Me… there’s a particular line in that song that is resonating with me at the moment. “Shed your skin and let’s get started.” That line could have a hundred different meanings for a thousand different people, but for me… It’s not about love, or anyone…
The War Time Story of My Great Great Grandfather On the night of Tuesday October 12, 1915, 23 year old farmer James Gerald Cameron sat down to write a short, one page letter to his sister. It was raining and he likely balanced the sheet of paper on his knee, as the pencilled lines and uneven words wander and dip…
It’s March 2020, and the pandemic has just begun… Every morning I wake up and there’s that few seconds before reality hits, where I think it’s just another normal day… but clearly it’s not. I’ve started wondering if that will change… if I’ll wake up one day soon, and know instantly that life is a little different now and this…
Happy Birthday baby girl. Our angel baby, our rainbow child. It’s a special year this one… and I wanted to tell you a few things. Honouring your legacy has become a bit of an obsession since I moved to Newcastle 16 years ago, and it seems the people of this beautiful city feel that I deserve some recognition. On Australia…
Every year, the month of February can be a little emotionally challenging for me. Tomorrow will be the 24th of February 2019 and my first born child Jessica, would have been 32 years old. The weeks leading up to this day can often be harder than the day of her birth itself. I’m not really sure why, perhaps it’s the…
Writing about my grandfather has been on my mind for a few years. On a few different occasions I had thought about starting this blog, but I never quite reached the point where I felt it was something I needed to do… until now. We lost this generous, kind soul from our family at 5.00am on the 23rd of March…
A long time ago, in a galaxy (aka lifetime) far far away, my 11 year old self had a dream… That dream was to explore the Emerald Isle, on my own, in my own time, with no rules, conditions or influences. I have no idea where this dream came from, or why it embedded itself in the core of my being,…
The final day on our El Camino journey of support for the Hunter Breast Cancer Foundation was an emotional one…
So today was to be a little easier than our 31.5km day yesterday… The bones were a little weary and some of us had a blister here and there, but we were all determined to complete our mission so our spirits were high. We began the day with breakfast in a lovely little restaurant down the road at 8.00am. We…
We decided to make an early start today as we were facing our longest day of the trek with 30km of rural Spain to conquer. The plan was to get a lot of it out of the way before the weather warmed up. Always good in theory, but we had a long day ahead regardless of the weather. After breakfast,…
Faithfull Living 