nerves about daughter's arrival tomorrow...

PASSING THOUGHT: Daughter arrives tomorrow from Temora, NSW - help with last-minute packing...
And I'm actually nervous...
Not sure why...
Haven't seen her in 2 years?
Haven't packed enough to reduce last-minute
blitz?
What'll I be like Monday when son arrives from Adelaide?

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) April 15, 2022

moving fears...

PASSING THOUGHT: 5 more days from today+I'm out of here. Barely slept last night, yet so exhausted emotionally+physically. Taking longer to do last 'bits'+ even 'fearing' daughter(NSW-Saturday)+son (Adelaide-Monday) arriving+2 teachers+morning tea Monday...
I feel like hiding...

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) April 13, 2022

new birth...

My daughter's border collie, late last night, gave birth to 6 puppies...My daughter now has 9 dogs in her household...PLUS 2 young boys + hubby...PLUS me in a week's time...Is that a bit crowded??? pic.twitter.com/r5k2ahj0jV

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) April 9, 2022

back to 'o help' - new active Vic v. NSW cases...

We thank everyone who got vaccinated and tested yesterday.

Our thoughts are with those in hospital, and the families of people who have lost their lives.

More data soon: https://t.co/OCCFTAtS1P#COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData pic.twitter.com/7HJmrV6TZn

— VicGovDH (@VicGovDH) January 10, 2022

NOTE: NSW still not recording RATs...

***My daughter, living in the Riverina, said her town of Temora is currently overwhelmed with covid-19 cases...They have not been reported in the mainstream media...She said Temora is a ghost town... 

Just wondering how massively inept the NSW LNP and @NSWHealth have to be to not be able to organise in more than a week a way to record number of Covid-19 positive Rapid Antigen Tests? #Domicron #LNPfail https://t.co/3cwS5ymMUd

— Niyu (@Minhakiira) January 10, 2022

the gift of time...

PASSING THOUGHT: Just spent over an hour on the phone with my daughter in NSW. She worries about my being alone for Christmas. She's busy tomorrow with family (will still ring) however thought she would spend some time with me tonight.
Great Christmas gift.
Love her to pieces.

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 24, 2021

my daughter's home has started...

At last, today, work on my daughter's home in the Riverina has started...
Just...
Turning the first sods...a mere year after the initial planned beginning...
Thank you Mr/Ms Covid-19... pic.twitter.com/nNZ1pNP3Q5

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 7, 2021

house plan dialogue...

On daughter's house plan...
Son: What sort of building material on the outside? Brick, weatherboard, stone...
Daughter: Outside's cladded. It's lineaboard, a mixture of concrete+fibre which isn't so attractive to termites.
Son: Yes, gets stuck in their teeth. Most inconvenient.

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) July 15, 2021

tried to help...

PASSING THOUGHT: Yesterday, rec'd a 2-hour call re significant troubles. Today, sought extra help + advice. Offered a professional contact number to yesterday's caller. Excited I could do something. My efforts were dismissed because of 'too busy now'. Feel deflated but I tried. pic.twitter.com/KR07WsQvAj

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 19, 2021

Bella and Jock...

My daughter's 8-month-old dogs - Bella and Jock...
I am amazed that she managed to photograph them keeping still + together being still... pic.twitter.com/Dl0GVoG4cC

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 28, 2020

long Christmas Eve drive...

❤️Feeling very proud of my daughter...
Her 2 sons waiting on covid results, so can't be with Mum for Christmas...
Mum drove from the Riverina to Wollongong last night to drop presents at their door...(384.8km each way)
She just rang me...tired...but happy...
Awesome girl... ❤️

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 25, 2020

a real Anzac Day story...

Anzac Day 2020 - dawn light over the front balcony of my grandson's townhouse in Wollongong...


When my daughter sent me the above image from her son's home,
she told me that she forgot to tell me the following story (related to the last post here)...

When we stood out the front, an old fella across the road stood quietly with his candle.
He had medals on his jacket.

We could hear two trumpets playing the Last Post.
One was from in the centre of town, which was clear.
Then a neighbour, a few streets away to our right, played a rusty rendition of the same.

A number of families did the same as us in town.

I was so glad we were standing with our candles when the old fella came out.
We faced him holding our candles
without a word...

ANZAC Day Dawn...

ANZAC DAY dawns...

And this driveway in NSW glows with candlelight...

My daughter and her little family are there

remembering

the ANZACS

Lest We Forget

NOTE: This is the first time since 1919 (Spanish flu)  that there is no dawn service on ANZAC Day...