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On Our Walks
A while back there was a lovely thread of sunrises that the early risers among us posted. I loved it, so I thought I'd broaden it to a thread for all the lovely sights we see as we do our slow staggers through chemo, or those walks we take after active treatment has finished and we're trying to get our strength and fitness back.
In Melbourne today the weather was sunny, still and mild; perfect for a walk. I have followed my GP to a small town in the Yarra Valley (a good GP is worth the 30 minute drive I reckon), and right outside her surgery is the start of a beautifully laid out walking track. It's 7kms long and I've been keen to explore it. So today I walked halfway along it and back. At over 7kms it was the longest walk I've done since the day before chemo!
In Melbourne today the weather was sunny, still and mild; perfect for a walk. I have followed my GP to a small town in the Yarra Valley (a good GP is worth the 30 minute drive I reckon), and right outside her surgery is the start of a beautifully laid out walking track. It's 7kms long and I've been keen to explore it. So today I walked halfway along it and back. At over 7kms it was the longest walk I've done since the day before chemo!
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- Beautiful photos from your walk @JJ70. What sort of flower is that last photo please?
- It's been the longest time since I posted here....., so here are heaps of photos from my recent walks in Nannup, South West WA - enjoy these. I certainly enjoyed taking the photos. WA
- @kezmusc
Ah necessity and ingenuity due to the lack of funds. Lack of funds was the story of my life until we retired. How I wish we had had access to funds in our working lives that we now do in our retirement life.
Funds in our working life came about through my husband's and my own effort. We were always so careful with what funds we had as there just may not be any next week and so "make do and mend" was a daily occurence.
Now in retirement we just spend, after all there's more next week! However old habits die hard and we still mend and reuse. Old things are kept - you never know when "it might come in handy"! - It's quite amazing how much you learn to do @"Annie C" isn't it? Necessity (and lack of funds lol) makes us gals pretty bloody handy I reckon.
- The hum of the pumps!
- @arpie
We do. I will always readily admit that I never gave water a thought when living down south. I was so green / naive that I did not know that people drank bore water until we moved to our bush block.
I thought that water was supplied by pipes to houses. Well yes water is supplied by pipes to houses but the work of laying pipes and supplying the water is done by us! And what's more pumps are required.
What an education! - I remember visiting a friend in the bush during a drought in the 60s when aged about 14 ..... they brought a kettle of hot water into the bathroom & poured it into the bath ..... and that was it!! I added enough cold water to it to cool it down a tad & I bathed in the 'puddle' (after sitting there for a while, hoping for a 2nd kettle full to come along - which didn't!) We DO take our access water a tad for granted.
