As you know, I work for Emergency Services in Red Cross. This was a typical summer's day at work for me: Since last week we have been tracking tropical storms across northern Queensland which have been wreaking havoc and dumping more rainwater in a day than some European countries see in a month. With the hot weather … Continue reading fire, flood and pestilence
two passports
Three years after arriving here, we finally become citizens of Australia on Australia Day, 26 January 2009. Even though we have jumped through all the bureaucratic hoops and parted with even more sums of money (where will it end? and can you not be a citizen if you are poor?), we still cannot actually become … Continue reading two passports
very lazy day
Get up without being jolted into consciousness by an alarm clock. Have a leisurely coffee with Orlando. Drive fifteen minutes on empty roads (note to northern hemispherieans: summer holidays) to one of the best day spas in Australia, right in the city centre. Sip on a cup of posh green tea with Lee whilst filling … Continue reading very lazy day
health kick diary 2009
OK. Since the last serious health kick, I have managed to put on nearly all the weight I lost. In re-reading my 2007 health kick diary pages, I decided to give my well-being a new year's push and get back on track. This is not, I repeat not, a New Year's resolution. My New Year's … Continue reading health kick diary 2009
Máiréad Doyle 