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!!

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Easy Breezy

He raised them. He trained them. He watched them dissolve and rebuild inside a chrysalis. Then he watched them remember.

Jo Nagai trained swallowtail caterpillars to associate lavender scent with a mild electric shock. After complete metamorphosis 70 percent of butterflies still avoided the scent. Presented at the 2024 International Congress of Entomology his results also suggested the learned response was passed to offspring indicating possible transgenerational memory inheritance.

Shared for informational purposes only.

Source: International Congress of Entomology / Radiolab / Dr Martha Weiss Georgetown University (2024)

How cool is that!?!

I’ve had a pleasant Sunday.

I only missed one game in the tipping comp so I’m happy with my progress.

It’s been a weird day with the weather. Crazy heavy scudding showers that last about three minutes followed by sunshine.

Harley got to play. I tended my garden and picked some beans. I cooked a big batch of spaghetti bolognese which fed AH and BGWLBH tonight and I froze enough for three more nights.

I had a laksa with prawns and fresh beans from the garden, which I ate an hour before the others.

Now it’s almost midnight so it’s time to sleep.




Nite all.

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Mid Weekend

I’m happy to have correctly tipped all three NRL games tonight and have only missed one game for the weekend.

Go me!

My tummy issues have given me a hard time today, so I’ve spent the majority of the day in bed.

I woke at 7.30am, rose at 10am, took Harley out to play for 30 minutes between rain showers, tended my garden, crumbed some whiting fillets and cooked them - took a phone call from Rebel Mardi and let my fish go cold - had a wonderful hour long conversation with her because we had SO MUCH to catch up on, sat down to eat my cold fish then returned to bed.

I watched some ‘Friends’ and then it was all football from 4pm until now.

It’s ’fend for yourself’ night so I didn’t need to cook.

My dinner was a Connoisseur Pistachio Gelato ice cream …

It was delicious!

Now I need to sleep.




Nite all.

Friday, April 24, 2026

Like Yesterday

It doesn’t feel like we’ve been together for 23 years. 

I moved from Griffith to Sydney in April of 2005 to live with Adoring Husband, but that really feels like just a few years ago.

We were married in the Lions Park at Burrum Heads in 2010 and so we celebrated 16 yrs of marriage today.

We drove into the bay and out to the marina where we had reservations at Truly Asia for lunch. We both ordered steamed duck and mushrooms (because that was our number one choice at our favourite restaurant in Sydney) but it didn’t live up to the Sydney dish. The duck AND the mushrooms were tough. Still edible and the flavours were delicious, but I wouldn’t choose it again.

There were leftovers … my duck dish and plain fried rice plus AH’s special fried rice, so we ordered a takeaway Nahm Jim Chicken which was enough for us to have for dinner tonight.

After lunch, we walked across to the Boat Club, and when I swiped my card, because it was my birthday, I received a free drink, which I gave to AH so that he could sit and watch me play the pokies for 30 minutes. 

We ran a couple of errands before returning home, including buying Harley a new toy, which he loved!

BGWLBH worked today so I made her my famous turkey breast, avocado, cranberry jelly, goats cheese and sprouts on toasted sourdough for dinner. We had leftover trifle for dessert.

AH and I retired to our beds at 7pm! 

I am pretty darned tired and feel that I will sleep soundly tonight.

It has been a really nice day.





Nite all.

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Let’s Celebrate

Allegedly haha

THE EQUIPMENT BROUGHT TO THE MOON IN 1971 Apollo 15 (the first moon landing that brought the land rover)

The fuel for the capsule and the rover. Plus 12 days of food. Plus 12 days of water. Plus a massive parachute. Plus a landing capsule, which had to be reinforced enough to withstand re-entry into earth's atmosphere. Plus tools. Plus 12 days of oxygen for 3 people. Plus 3 astronauts and they say 15 different space suits. (I just found that out now...wow 15 different suits) Plus camera gear. Plus regular clothing. Plus 12 days of human waste. Plus 3 layers of engineered redundancy electronics, which means you needed 2 back up systems for every survival-based system being used, just in case the first two systems failed. Plus the rover, which was the size of a car. Plus the American flag and flagpole. Plus rock samples. 

In Apollo 11 (the first moon landing) a Freemasonic silk bag and handwritten deputation was brought by Buzz Aldrin, to place "the moon" under Freemasonic jurisdiction. But I'm sure that last part has nothing to do with anything questionable about any of the "moon landings".. 

When you're insane and the person next to you is equally insane, you just think that you're both completely normal. Sane people know why I included that last sentence.


On the 24th April, Adoring Husband and I will have been married for 16 years (we’ve been together for 23 yrs).

We are going out for lunch to Truly Asian on the marina, which should be nice. 

Today, for my birthday, BGWLBH and I went into the bay. The RSL Club enjoyed our company for a couple of hours. I did some grocery shopping and got a green juice.

AH cooked a chicken curry for dinner, which saved me from cooking. I had a prawn and noodle laksa soup for a late lunch so I didn’t eat dinner.

The cake that AH made me was a little dry, so I chopped up most of it and made a trifle using port wine jelly, tinned peaches and pears, custard, cream and crunchy coconut swirls on top. It’s a HUGE trifle and AH doesn’t like trifle! This means that it’s all for BGWLBH and I. Yummy!

We played trivia tonight.

My gifts were two tops, two bracelets, a bag charm, two journals and a solar powered hummingbird for the garden.

My favourite aunty Jackie phoned me early this morning and we chatted for about 45 minutes. Bubbles phoned while we were on our way into the bay and she was supposed to call back this afternoon but didn’t. 

There was a video from my little sister of her singing happy birthday (very poorly lol), a text from my niece, a text from my brother, a text from my Aunty Fay and from my friend Heather.

A text from Vegan Chickie, but none from Number One son, which is unusual and I’m a bit worried about him, but hoping he is preoccupied with a friend.

Lots of Facebook messages which were lovely.

So I will sleep soundly and prepare for another day of celebrations tomorrow.








It’s all.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Big 66

More food for thought …

★ The Next Lockdown Is Voluntary

The next lockdowns aren't going to be forced on you. Nobody's going to mandate anything. You're just going to stay home because you can't afford to leave, and that's exactly how they want it.

Here's what's happening. Over 60 countries are already blending ethanol into their gasoline, and starting May 1st, the escalation begins. The official story is clean and rehearsed ⊷ energy security, greenhouse gas reduction, rural development. They've labeled it green policy. They'll sell it as saving the planet and supporting farmers, and most people are going to swallow it whole because the pitch sounds responsible and they have zero idea what's about to happen to their engine and their bank account.

The justification is global. So is the damage.

Your tank costs a fortune to fill, and ethanol-laced fuel burns so fast : 3x faster > you'll be back at the pump before you've gotten anywhere worth going. Fuel efficiency drops, fill-up costs climb, and you're getting hit on both ends every single time you drive. That's not a side effect. That's the point.

Anyone driving an older vehicle without flex-fuel capacity is on a countdown clock. Your catalytic converter, your fuel injectors, your engine ⊷ within a month you're looking at serious mechanical damage. People figure this out the hard way, then panic and rush for ethanol neutralizers and fuel additives. Those products leave the shelves in days the same way toilet paper did in 2020, because people in a panic are completely predictable every single time.

So the math is simple. Pay through the nose to fill your tank and destroy your vehicle doing it, or just don't drive. Most people choose option two. That's the voluntary lockdown. No mandate. No enforcement. The price stops them cold.

COVID gave them 18 months of lockdowns through fear. This one delivers the same result through your wallet.

And because this is global, you can't point at one government or one policy. They've rolled this out across 60-plus nations and wrapped it in climate language so that anyone who pushes back looks like they hate clean air and farmers. That's a deliberate construction. Push back and you're the bad guy. It's set up so that no serious opposition can form without being socially destroyed first.

If this sounds like a conspiracy theory to you, good luck with that. Conspiracy theory is a label invented to kill an investigation before it starts. It has nothing to do with whether something is true or false. It is a social weapon whose only job is to make the person asking the question look stupid enough that they shut up. The question never gets answered ⊷ it just becomes too socially expensive to keep asking. Every major truth in history was called a conspiracy theory before it was called a fact.

People are going to stay home, stop spending, and live on whatever's cheapest ⊷ and the whole thing gets blamed on carbon emissions.

🛑 Get ahead of it now, before the panic makes that impossible.

❕❕ If this information triggered you, GOOD! You should be triggered. Wake up and smell the deceit! ❕❕

Your Rebel With A Cause ★ Stella Young 

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Today was bedroom day for me. 

I was feeling pretty miserable for most of it. I don’t know why. Hopefully that miserable feeling will pass by tomorrow.

I watched some Mayim Bialik (neuroscientist, author, actor) on YouTube. One interview with Sam Knight who wrote the book “The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold” which mostly follows the studies and research of a doctor in the 60s who documented premonitions by people worldwide. It was intriguing and interesting.

The second show was an interview with Lee Harris, a channeller, spiritual teacher, intuitive and author discussing humanity expanding our consciousness. Also intriguing and interesting.

I napped for about 90 minutes and dragged myself out of bed to make tacos for dinner.

It was the easiest because there was leftover taco mince in the freezer so I just reheated that, chopped up some lettuce and tomato, poured grated cheese into a bowl, hot sauce and sour cream, chucked the taco shells in the oven for 5 minutes and whammo, all done. I think it took about 20 minutes.

We played trivia before all heading to bed at 7.30pm.

I think I can sleep again now. 





Nite all.