Nice to see you!

Three major events occurred for me last year (2010), all in the space of about 2 weeks. I turned 50. The following day I got married. Two weeks later, my oldest daughter became pregnant with her first child and my first grandchild.

Most middle-aged people will tell you that in their minds, they still feel 20 something. It's the same for me.

Wasn't it only yesterday that I was planning a night out with guys from the surf club? That gorgeous new perm. Flaired, cuffed denims and the red t-shirt with the off-the-shoulder frill. Corked platform wedgies. **sigh**

Suddenly I'm looking in the mirror and wondering how 30 years can flash by so damned quickly!

So here I am in cyberspace, sharing my genuine shock and horror with anyone who'll listen and maybe I'll even meet some other over 50s who find themselves in the same predicament!

Welcome to my dilemna!!

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Merry Christmas

Today was my 5th Christmas Eve at the shop and the quietest of them all in sales.

Considering how consistently good my sales have been for the last two weeks, I was surprised by today’s result - not that it was bad by any means, just that it was not spectacular.

The Silver Fox visited me for a little while before lunch. Actually I had quite a few visitors today! A few of the meditation girls came by at different times, one of them celebrating a birthday.

The Gypsy celebrated a birthday today too - we messaged each other.

I had planned on staying open until 4 or 5pm but it was so quiet between 1pm and 3pm that I decided to call it a day.

This evening I continued my “Love Actually” tradition with Vegan Chickie. At 7pm my time (8pm down there) we hit PLAY and she watched it in Melbourne, while I watched it here - sending texts at our favourite or least favourite parts of the movie.

They are hosting Christmas at their place this year so they’ve been very busy all day preparing and decorating and setting up. I’m surprised she was able to stay awake for the whole movie!

I love our tradition 😍

Bubbles ended up with three stitches in her wound last night. Not quite the ‘shark attack’ scar that I expected but she should be ok.

As you can see, it’s well after midnight and I can just feel my body beginning to wind down to a sleepy pace.

As disappointed as I am that Beautiful Girl With The Long Blonde Hair couldn’t get here for Christmas, and as miserable as I felt this afternoon, I am going to make a concerted effort to keep my spirits high on Christmas Day.

We have lots of delicious fresh food - prawns, crabs, ham, watermelon, mango, lychees, organic salads and a few naughty but tasty treats. We’ll laze by and in the pool listening to cheesy Christmas songs and soaking up the sunshine.

It will be a perfect solitary Christmas for us.

I hope you all have a perfect day feeling the love of family and friends, eating, drinking and being super merry. Let the laughter ring out. Stay safe and be happy.


Nite all.

Thursday, December 23, 2021

One Sleep

Today was steady with great sales, but not super busy.

The caravan parks have already begun to fill up and the town is busy - as usual for Christmas/New Year.

More emotional discussions regarding the shop and it’s possible demise. Everyone is hopeful that somebody will buy, but I doubt it.

I didn't have time to finish counting the buttons and to be honest I was pretty buggered by the end of the day.

I pulled the teal blind closed behind the glass cabinets of jewellery and the whole blind fell and collapsed onto the floor between the window and the cabinets. That was bloody annoying for the end of the day.

We’ll figure out a temporary fix because there’s no point in replacing it if the shop is closing next month.

I was just chatting with my girl Bubbles and she is at the hospital in Sydney, waiting for treatment on a work injury. She fell over some racks and gashed her leg on some metal shelving (close your eyes if you’re squeamish) …

That will make for an uncomfortable Christmas 😕 Let’s hope she at least gets home before midnight tonight!

I’m feeling a bit sad that Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair was unable to get over the border and won’t be here for Christmas. We had such big plans for Christmas, road trips and purchasing property. 

Now we have to spend Christmas together remotely.

Ugh 😩

We can only hope that some time in the future, our plans will eventually come to fruition.

It’s almost 11pm and you know what that means …




Nite all.

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Counting Buttons

Another good pre-Christmas sales day.

In between customers, I did stocktake on the snap button jewellery! I should be done with that by tomorrow afternoon. What a job! There are a LOT of buttons!

They’ll be half price after Christmas.

It was quite an emotional day with more customers who had just heard that I’m closing, rushing in to express their disappointment and sadness. I can usually take it in my stride but today I welled up a little.

I think that when this is all over, I’m going to hibernate for a month. 

I’ll definitely be all peopled out.

We grabbed a few more groceries on the way home and the FROG box was on the kitchen bench waiting to be unpacked when I arrived home.

I made nachos for dinner tonight.

I am soooo tired tonight and it’s already after 11pm.





Nite all.

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Three More Sleeps

 I Am Not Misinformation

Interviews with Canadians about their adverse events.

Today was a great day.

The Happy Hippy came and dusted in the shop.

I was surprised when Aggie, The Brains Trust and Maid Marian came for coffee. I got to spend about half of the time with them between customers and Aggie now has me on a mission to search for some truths. Watch this space!

As you would expect in the week leading up to Christmas, sales were great so I was busy all day.

The Welsh Wonder and her hubby The Energiser Bunny popped in for a visit and stayed for about half an hour.

Just as we were closing the shop, the Speckled Hen phoned making enquiries about gifts for her granddaughter.

We chatted about the recent loss of her man and I invited her to come straight to the shop and select her gifts.

She looked frail and fragile as she unfolded the story of his passing and Adoring Husband and I hugged her tightly, though it just didn’t feel enough.

The usually tough little pocket rocket was far from that today and the coming weeks and months will be tough going for her. Luckily she is surrounded be a close and loving network of friends and family to help her heal.

After she left, we did a very big grocery shop at our local supermarket and butcher, stocking up for the expected January lockdown. I hope the prediction is wrong, but just in case … we are prepared. Our pantry and freezer is now full.

I did have to clean out the fridge and pantry to make space!

I cooked up the other duck breast for AH’s dinner with some veg and fig flavoured caramelised onion.

It’s now, once again, after 11pm. Sleep time!


Nite all.

Monday, December 20, 2021

Sorry Again Not Sorry

This month, Pfizer has agreed to purchase Arena Pharmaceuticals for $6.7billion in cash.

What is significant about that?

In November 2020, Arena Pharmaceuticals received FDA approval for their drug Ralinepag which is used to treat Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - a common side effect of the Pfizer jab.

Goodness me! A coincidence? I think not.

Also, there is a report issued by Pfizer titled “Pfizer Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorisation Adverse Event Reports”.

It covers the first 3 months of the vaccine rollout and only the first 38 pages were handed over thanks to the FOI Act. HERE  is the link if you'd like to read all of it.

This is page 6 where some results are provided. For some reason nobody is allowed to know how many vaccines were issued in the first rollout - the number has been redacted.

The next is a table showing adverse events - remembering this is the FIRST three month period of vaccine doses and this report was issued to regulatory authorities to consider on April 30th 2021.

See the deaths? See all the different adverse events? ‘Sequelae’ means recovered but with a long term effect/disability.

This shows that 31% of people either died, have not yet recovered or have recovered but with a long term disability.

There is interesting data on page 12 regarding pregnant and lactating women and how the vaccine affected their babies. Those numbers are astounding. 27% of the pregnant women had a serious event which included miscarriages and stillbirths. 13% of lactating babies experienced an adverse event.

There is no way, just from this small amount of data that I’m showing you, that a scientist can declare this vaccine safe. This is a Pfizer document. 

Doctors and scientists all agree that you cannot state any medication or vaccine is safe until you have at least ten years of data.

In the past and currently with any new medication, vaccine, additive to the water or pesticide used on our food and it is introduced to the human species, every adverse event is attributed to that new substance … until proven otherwise.

One more part of the report to note. Thirty four (34) children under the age of 12 were ‘accidentally’ given a vaccine dose. TWENTY FOUR of them had serious side effects. That’s 70.6%.

Thirteen of those children did not get better and have a permanent disability.

Pfizer will only release a limited number of pages each month and it will take 55 years for all of this report to be available. A good portion of the report will be redacted.

How was this NOT pulled from the market in April? 

Anyway, enough for now.

My day consisted of bed, swimming, sunbathing, watching cricket, washing, cooking, more cricket and now bed again.

I cooked duck breast with grilled zucchini and tomato and steamed box choy. I made a nice little fig jus for the duck. Adoring Husband enjoyed it. I had a mango for dinner.

At lunch time I made a smoothie with frozen bananas, frozen pineapple, almond nut butter, maple syrup, Kakadu plum gubinge, cacao powder and fresh macadamia milk. It was like a thick slushy so I put it in a coconut bowl, sprinkled a spoonful of crunchy muesli over the top and added some fresh blueberries.

It was delicious and very filling, so I didn’t need any dinner.

Here it is already after 11pm. I need to sleep!



Nite all.

Sunday, December 19, 2021

Explosive revelations about the FDA and Pfizer's COVID vaccine [PART 1]


My day consisted of …

Bed.
Swimming.
Washing.
Cricket.
Washing.
Bed.
Cricket.
Bed.

I even got Adoring Husband into the pool today. Not for long but at least he got wet!

Quite a relaxing kind of day really.

Now it’s time for sleep before I turn into a pumpkin.




Nite all.