Category: Family & Friends
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After 224 days, commencing 1 November 2025, today 13 June 2026, I’ve completed Stage 2 of my Health and Wellness plan having achieved a body mass index reading of 24.9 (considered healthy) so I’m no longer medically consider overweight / fat. I’ve made a significant investment in myself during this time starting with a blood…
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Over the last 12 months, I’ve been slowly upgrading and fixing up my apartment. This started with painting the apartment, replacing an old bed, replacing the toilet, replacing the blinds / curtains, and replacing the couches.
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On a cold Wednesday night the Mt Carmel C Grade 1 Mixed Tennis team that I play for won our North Suburban Night Tennis Association (NSTNA) Grand Final.
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My home State Victoria (Australia) on 27 November just completed 28 days without any new COVID-19 cases or deaths and we now have no known active cases at all. It has been a very rocky long road to get to this stage and a very hard winter we lots of learnings and self reflection over…
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On Friday 6 March 2020 I had the honour of attending the wedding of my nephew Andrew and his amazing fiancé Danelle. Andrew and Danelle had been engaged for sometime to ensure they were right for each other and for almost 2 years at one point they lived with me while saving for their future…
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Friday 25 January 2020 Each year since the Australian Open moved to Melbourne Park (formerly Flinders Park) in 1988 I’ve attended the local Australian Tennis Grand Slam missing only 2000, 2010, and 2013 when overseas, so 30 times out of 33 Australian Opens. I managed back in 2018 to attend the Men’s Final watching the…
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So back on Friday 24 May 2019 I bought home my two rescue kittens Juno and Boots (that I previously wrote about here) and it’s been a surprising ride over the last 6 months. Both Juno and Boots have remained the sweetest creatures you can hope to have in your home but they have also…
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I adopted two rescue cats back on Friday 24 May and it’s been a bigger life change than I originally imagined. But how did I get here?
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In early January 2019 I turned 45 years old and later that month my youngest niece Erin commenced high school, both events got me focusing on creating some short, medium and long term future goals. I decided to set goals into short term (12-15 months), medium term (3 years) and long term (6 years). The…
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2018 was definitely an unusual year for me as it included two overseas trips. I closed off 2017 while still on an African tour, the last days of 2017 had me camping under the stars in Chobe National Park (Botswana) before heading off to Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) for a stunning helicopter flight over the falls,…
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