Sunset vibes at my new best friend Sasso Dolomites Day 1: Monday 1st September, 2025 We arrived later than anticipated at our accommodation at Santa Cristina just in time to witness a sensational Dolomites sunset. The colours on the Sassolungo group were unbelievable and the half moon was conveniently sitting in between two peaks. I
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Venice Biennale Architecture After a deferral in 2024, due to a crazy year of health issues, we have finally headed off for perhaps our final trip to Italy to visit Venice, the Dolomites, Lake Garda and then onto Switzerland to stay at Grindelwald. With the Aussie Dollar being like it is (quite frankly very pathetic
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The ongoing saga of 2021’s trials and tribulations so I can remember what has gone down….. Photo of The Lucky Country Book In 1964, author Donald Horne wrote the famous book called The Lucky Country. Many people (having probably not read the book) believe that the book is positive reflection of life in Australia. Australia being
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I will be still working (I hope) in 2030, but maybe I won’t. But I know that there will be younger pelvic health physios carrying the baton for conservative management of pelvic floor dysfunction. Some will be private, but some will be in the public sector. I would like to present you with a future
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Or as my son’s Mother’s Day card to me last year said: “Happy Squeezed out of your Vagina Day” My son in ‘my tummy’ 30 years ago I laughed out loud when he gave me this card last May and it joined my collection of funny Pelvic Health cards on the wall in my treatment
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My two beautiful grandchildren Thursday is grandchildren day. I love Thursdays because I get to chill out with a four year old and sometimes a six year old (and my husband Bob), watch my grandsons play, look at the birds, the plants and nature in general and relax from the hectic pace of our clinic.
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As you know I regularly ask patients to write blogs for me about their particular journey with their pelvic floor dysfunction. And many times the resulting blog that they send me is articulate and resonates with me on many levels. Well today’s blog is no different. After five turbulant weeks in Australia, when women
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Today I am at work rather than kicking up my heels at an Australia Day barbie out of respect for our First Nations people. I just don’t understand why we continue to disrespect our Indigenous Australians by continuing to choose this day to celebrate all that it is to be Australian, on the day they
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Dr Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause helping fistula patients in Africa Back in 2017 as one of my New Year’s pledges I decided to ask my family and friends to give a donation to HADA -the organisation which fund-raises for the fistula and prolapse repair work that Professor Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause
