My friend Don Strempel has been in hospital for the last couple of days. He has not been feeling well and was feeling a tingling down one side of his body. Una thought it best to take him to hospital rather than to ignore his symptoms. He went to Flinders Medical Centre and they checked […]
Category: MY BLOGS
20160127 – Wednesday – Flickr and Yahoo.com
I have been very frustrated today. I decided I would join Flikr and so I went to the Flickr site and began to fill in the form. I filled in all the data, chose an email name, and password which I carefully recorded because I forget passwords instantly, so need to have them written down. […]
20160126. – Australia Day – Yankee Cafe
Last night was catch up time with my daughters Deb and Helen. Because they live interstate from me, the phone is the best and main medium of contact and I don’t use it often enough. I woke up around 3.30 am feeling a bit strange and after a minute I identified the feeling as “low […]
20150125 – Monday – Commencing my diary
I am feeling quite satisfied and happy today which is not how I felt last week and the week before. Building a web site from scratch was a huge learning curve for me. My 76 year old brain doesn’t find it as easy as I once might have to take in new material and learn […]
Chapter 3 – 1993 Jeff and Fay ‘s Visit to Israel – Keren Hayesod Presentation at Beit Shalom
Chapter 3 – 1993 Jeff and Fay ‘s Visit to Israel – Keren Hayesod Presentation at Beit Shalom 19930210 – Wednesday -Beit Shalom Our Jewish Agency guide, Shraga Hect drove us to Beit Shalom which is a beautiful mansion in Jerusalem where guests of the Jewish Agency are accommodated and entertained. Jeff hadn’t told me […]
My “grey nomad” adventure, 2015 08
MY FIRST “GREY NOMAD” ADVENTURE TO MORISSET AND MELBOURNE Today I watched a TED talk by a young man named Scott Dinsmore on how to find work you love. He spoke about how he quit a job that made him miserable, and spent the next four years wondering how to find work that was joyful […]
Chapter 5 – Bethlehem
19920211 – Thursday – So Sick We were staying at the Ariel Hotel in Jerusalem and I was so sick today and not able to do much. All I did do was step outside our hotel and take a few pictures before falling back into bed again. This was a mural on the wall of […]
Chapter 4 – Israel Goldstein Youth Village
19930210 – Israel Goldstein Youth Village at Hanoar Hatzioni Our guide, Schraga Hect, drove us to the Israel Goldstein Youth Village at Hanoar Hdatzioni, where we were met by Judy Segl who showed us over the village. The Israel Goldstein Youth Village The dining room at the Israel Goldstein Youth Village Judy Segal […]
Chapter 2 – Rome to Tel Aviv
19930208 – ROME TO TEL AVIV – Flight AZ 746 11.25 am I was sorry to leave Rome, because I had had such an idyllic time there, but I was glad to be on my way to Israel. Befar Melbourne On the Alitalia ‘plane to Ben Gurion airport, Lud, Tel Aviv. same flight were a […]
Chapter 1 – Jeff and Fay Berry’s 1993 visit to Israel
Jeff and Fay Berry’s 1993 visit to Israel at the invitation of Keren Hayesod/United Israel Appeal/ and Jewish Agency. Ever since the beginning of the Second World War, Christadelphians have raised money for Youth Aliyah to assist Jewish children escape from countries where they were being persecuted. Lindsay Colquhoun was the main organizer of Chistadelphian […]