Why Innsbruck? Well I had it in my head that I wanted to travel through some snowy alps in winter so when we looked at Venice and London and train trips and biggish airports, Innsbruck seemed to fit the picture. Whilst it didn’t really end up being lots of surround-view snow-capped mountains, it ended up […]
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Look away now if you do not want to see some travel blogging. The Grand Canal, Venice As you may be aware my blog is also my diary for trips we take because it is so easy to forget memorable moments as you get older (well it is for me anyway) and I often do
Venice Biennale 2018 Read More »
This week’s blog is about a new intimate cream called Olive and Bee. It has been on the market for over 2 years but I recently attended a conference in Hobart for the Continence Foundation of Australia and Claire Osterstock, an Adelaide based pelvic health physiotherapist and inventor of Olive and Bee, had a space
An Australian Success story: Olive & Bee – A new intimate cream Read More »
……..For those who’ve come across the seas We’ve boundless plains to share…… I met a wonderful nun recently who works with refugees and we were both despairing about the children on Nauru situation and she was telling me some wonderful stories about refugees who she has helped in her work. I asked her to write
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In November 2017, there was a decree from the Australian Government that a number of complementary medicine categories would no longer be able to be covered by the Private Health Insurance companies. This is what the Government has decided as part of the linked advice above. “Rules will be made to remove natural therapies from
Apparently preventative medicine is a waste of money? Read More »
Marzena showing us the wonderful balance poses in yoga Today Megan had some time between classes so she whipped me up a blog and chose to talk about the importance of balance. Funnily enough in yoga tonight Marzena got us doing lots of balance poses in our yoga class (and I just had to
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Buy Green Vanilla Tea This week’s blog is a sad one. It’s talking about a problem which is likely to touch all our lives in some way. We will all know a family who has had to deal with the dementia diagnosis or will be right now in the thick of the dementia disruptor, with
Dementia – the Green Goblin Read More »
I want to talk about fairness – or the lack of it. My husband went to the dentist recently and had his six monthly check up. It took 30 minutes. He had an examination (it has a separate code), a clean (it has a separate code), a filling (it has a separate code) and the
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I think it’s always a good idea to have a Plan B- because life being life, there’s always going to be a spanner in the works of Plan A. I know this pussy cat’s dilemma all too well. I have a wardrobe ranging from a size 12 to size 16 and I refuse to ever
Happy New Year- Welcome 2018 Read More »
Whilst I do love sunshine – the Vitamin D one- I really am talking about Sunshine Beach. You saw from the last blog that we have been coming to Sunshine for quite a while- it turns out when we really thought about it – it has been 41 years that we have been coming. Whilst
Merry Christmas – Did I ever mention I love Sunshine? Read More »