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| Use these words in your entry today: wildfire, lightning, fear, wildlife, emergency, inspiration, and overwhelming. This prompt is inspired by the fires in Jaspar National Park. Have you faced a situation like they are now in your community? Wildfires, or bushfires are common in Australia. There have been terrible losses of life and property all over this big country. Lightning strikes are often a cause of devastating fires when we experience dry thunderstorms. Thousands of lightning strikes occur during such storms and fires are started in many difficult locations for the firefighters to access. The loss of wildlife is always a concern and wildlife volunteers work tirelessly to help those native animals. The fear they must experience as they attempt to outrun the flames is heartbreaking to consider. When we had a massive fire a few years ago and lost many hundreds of Koalas, the photographs of a Koala drinking out of a water bottle offered to it by a firefighter was shown around the world. Donations poured in from as far as the USA. The response was overwhelming. Watching vision of our emergency services and firefighters is inspirational. We live in a fire prone environment ourselves so are completely aware of the danger summer brings each year. We are told we must have a fire plan in place so as we know whether we’re leaving or staying to defend our homes. The two most damaging things nature throws at us are fire and floods. We’ve had many, many of each to contend with, each one bringing its own heartache. |
Summer is always busy. And finding time to write can be challenging... Give these summer words a whirl... grill, hamburgers, salads, grass, sports, thermometer, beach, and sunburns. As I live in a different hemisphere to most WdC members, summer is just a memory. However it was a shockingly hot summer and one most of us were pleased to see leave! Our summer rituals though are the same as most other countries. We drag out the portable Barbecue, light up the grill and set to work cooking the hamburgers, making the salads and inviting the neighbours, friends or family to a cook out on the freshly cut grass I’m happy to do all those things except when the thermometer shows that the temperature is over 38 degrees C. As for the beach on days like those I’ll let the people lie in the sun all day if they like, but don’t come running to me when they’re suffering a bad case of sunburn. I shudder to think how much their poor skin is being damaged and inevitably in latter years they’ll regret doing so. |
Prompt: Memories Can our memories trigger sudden emotions or insights when we suddenly recall them? If this happens to you, do you feel it in your body somehow? Also, do you resist such memories or do you encourage them? I am on vacation, seeing some of my family I haven’t seen for a long time. Of course we have been reminiscing about things we all remember. This has inevitably brought emotions to the surface, some of those emotions were hard to deal with and have since stirred up more memories which I discovered I had buried. I think difficult times aren’t ones that I want to keep remembering or talking about and much prefer to talk about happy times. |
Use these random words in your entry today: volatile, desperation. jump, arena, personal, twist, and July. It’s July 2024, time for the Olympics, when no doubt we’ll be watching, glued to our televisions. I’ve not seen much of the Olympic venues in Paris but I’m sure the opening ceremony will be held in a spectacular arena, the teams will march proudly in their new uniforms, the Australian team in their green and gold have more athletes in the team this time than ever before. For a country with such a small population compared to the USA we are sending 460 of our finest. They will all be attempting to do do their personal best times. No doubt there’ll be the usual volatile moments as in desperation they push themselves to the limit. I love to watch the diving as they jump and twist their bodies from the high diving board.  |
| If you could change one thing in your life, what would that be? Would you be younger? Older? Richer? Poorer? Traveler? Homebody? You tell us... If I could change one thing in my life would be to attempt to stay at school longer. I hated each and every day at school. I was shy, timid and scared out of my wits most of the time. The teachers were cruel, I can’t remember a nice one. Seventy six years ago I started full time school. I was a day over four years old. I left the day after my fifteenth birthday feeling as if I was stupid and unable to learn. How sad is that? I found a boyfriend at fifteen and stuck with him ever since. I think it was because he made me feel safe. That’s another thing I’d never do. Not that we haven’t been happy but maybe things would have been different if I’d been able to stay at school, go to university, been something. Everything I know has been self taught, and I now know that I’m actually not stupid! 😂 |
Prompt: Have fun with these words: house, conditions, player, original, censorship, glare, heroine, and bald. I’ll start with the last word on the list. Bald. My husband is as bald as you can get. He began to lose his hair even before we were married at twenty one. But being the heroine in this story I loved him anyway but hoped his hair would hang around long enough for the wedding photographs. Well, my daughter and partner are still looking for a house to buy but each offer they put up, then someone else raises the stakes! The condition of the housing market is getting out of hand here. People are desperate and seem ready to pay anything. It’s becoming like some horrible game when each player doesn’t know the rules because they’re changing so quickly. The Government seems to be helpless in bringing some sort of censorship to bear, so many investors are being allowed to buy up the little housing stock there is. Foreign investors, where their countries money has a great exchange rate against the Australian currency are taking advantage of the situation. People now are wanting a ban on foreign investment The Asian countries such as China are buying up big I suppose there’s nothing original in this rapid rise in house prices, it must have happened in the past, but it is glaringly obvious it has to stop somewhere and soon.. |
Prompt: How happy are you with your delivery services and post office? Are they on time or do they make mistakes? What would you do if you were delivered a large and heavy box of something that neither had your name or your address on it? We seem to get less service as the years go by. We used to get two deliveries a day. The morning post followed by the afternoon delivery. That was many years ago though when I was a child. For many years we’ve had daily deliveries of letters, but that’s been cut to once every other day. Package services have taken over from letters as no one seems to write them anymore. Amazon are pretty good for parcels but the courier often leaves a package next to the mailbox if it doesn’t fit in. As we’re on a busy street any package could easily be stolen. I’ve complained, but now have any Amazon parcel mailed to a Collection box nearby. When I first came to Australia in 1972 I’d write to my mother each week. I’d Mail it on Thursday night. The following Thursday I’d get a letter from mum. So each week we’d both get a letter. Nowadays it can take up to a month for mail to reach England from Australia. They say the age of technology is beneficial to us all. I say, Humbug! |
Prompt: Have fun with these words: Deserve, desperate, designs, degrees, determine and anxiety.
We seem to have looked at so many differently designs of houses these last few weeks. My daughter and her husband are presently staying with us while they decide their next move. They both work hard and deserve to live somewhere nice, but since they sold their home a few weeks ago prices are climbing, both for rentals and those ready to purchase. Western Australia is now catching up with the rest of the country in regard to housing. It’s always been regarded as the poor relation but now everyone wants to live here it seems. I wouldn’t go as far as to say they’re getting desperate, well not yet! But I can feel degrees of desperation and anxiety creeping in. They are determined to find a place soon but I can see it will be Christmas and they’ll still be searching for a place to call home. |
| "Blogging Circle of Friends " DAY 3542 July 4, 2024 Use these words in your entry today: red, white, blue, popularity, stars, opinions, and controversy I try not to offer my opinions on anything serious or personal, after all what does my opinion matter? I suppose they matter to me and I keep them to myself. I steer away from controversy these days. It takes too much energy to argue with anyone and I need all the energy I have at the moment. I prefer to go out at night and sit on the park bench across the road from my house and look up at the stars. I find by doing that things get put into perspective. After all what does it matter? By ‘it’ I mean almost everything. Things always have a way of working themselves out without tying yourselves into knots. It’s impossible to avoid all the political news coming out of America and the mess of the Great Debate. It made me wonder why that out of the 333 million people who live in America Biden and Trump are the best there are. It seems as if Trump has the popularity vote but maybe Biden may surprise everyone by just winning by a small margin. Anyway good luck to all and best wishes on your Day of Independence and I’m waving a virtual flag of red while and blue. |
| Blogging Circle of Friends " DAY 3540 July 2, 2024 How do you feel about fireworks? Should they be available to everyone or only professionals I am ambivalent about fireworks now. But when I was a kid in England we had firework night on the fifth of November. This commemorated the night that Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament . They were freely available to purchase and we’d save all our pocket money to get as many as we could. If you had enough you could buy a selection box of fireworks. My grandma would make bonfire toffee which would just about break your teeth! For months we’d collect stuff to burn to make the biggest bonfire ever seen, in our gardens. We’d make an effigy of Guy Fawkes and wheel him around in an old pram, asking people to give us money to buy fireworks. “Penny for the Guy!” we’d shout out. The best spot was outside the pub when the men would come out a bit worse for wear. The weather was usually frosty and we couldn’t wait for it to go dark so we could light the bonfire, then Dad would set off the fireworks. There’d be rockets flying high into the night sky and lots of Ooh’s and Ahh’s from everyone as the Catherine Wheels spun around madly and the Penny bangers made everyone jump in fright when some naughty child would drop one behind an unexpecting Granny! This was the highlight of my year. Rules are such now that fireworks aren’t available to buy, well certainly not in Australia. The City usually puts on a massive display on New Years Eve, costing millions of dollars. Watching them now does nothing for me and I just tend to think it’s a waste of money and so much could have been done with it. The smell of smoke in the air on a winter’s night still reminds me of Bonfire Night. It’s then the memories of my Grandma’s toffee, the excitement of the weeks leading up to it, the making of the Guy and watching him burn on top of the bonfire come flooding back. ‘ |
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