Hello and welcome to this section about my blogs. The purpose here, is to keep a kind of public diary of significant life events and just updates on whatever may be happening, or has happened, that’s worth mentioning.
Israel 1993 – Fay and Jeff Berry
Easter camps at Glenloch Waikerie
My second grey nomad adventure 2017
My third grey nomad adventure 2018
In No Particular Order
- Chapter 1 – Jeff and Fay Berry’s 1993 visit to IsraelJeff 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 ...
- Chapter 2 – Rome to Tel Aviv19930208 – 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 ...
- Chapter 4 – Israel Goldstein Youth Village19930210 – 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 ...
- Chapter 5 – Bethlehem19920211 – 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 ...
- My “grey nomad” adventure, 2015 08MY 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, ...
- Chapter 3 – 1993 Jeff and Fay ‘s Visit to Israel – Keren Hayesod Presentation at Beit ShalomChapter 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 ...
- 20150125 – Monday – Commencing my diaryI 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 ...
- 20160126. – Australia Day – Yankee CafeLast 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 ...
- 20160127 – Wednesday – Flickr and Yahoo.comI 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 ...
- 20160202 – Tuesday – Don in HospitalMy 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 ...
- 20160204 – Thursday – Coffee with Rhonda SaxonThe value of our memory
- 20160206 – Saturday – Short-term memoryFriday morning I visited Don and Una Strempel for a pre-arranged breakfast with them. Don and Una both looked really good which made me very happy because Don had just spent a day or two in hospital and Una had ...
- 20160215 – The light of the body is the eyeIt is the 15th February, 2016 and I am having an “off” day. I don’t “grizzle” very often, but I feel like doing it today. In 2008 I had a stroke and for some years after that I did not “travel” too ...
- 20160216 – Tuesday – My Dad’s hairIt is 1.30 am and I canât sleep, so I do what I usually do when I canât sleep. I get up and sit down at my trusty computer and âthink out loud.â Yesterday, as you know, I had my little ...
- Graham’s memories of his Mum and Dad and his family
- Hiking to Ambleside (Hahndorf)Hiking to Ambleside, by Graham O’Connor
- 20160216 – Tuesday – Family Holiday for my 80thToday my daughter Deb from WA rang me. I was sitting in Rosie’s cafe when I received her call. We had a great long chat. It was peaceful in the cafe and outside the sun was shining and I could see ...
- 20160302 – Wednesday – Leaving PinnarooI liked this sign on this farm. It is a bit how my day has gone today. I have had trouble with my GPS and battery charger and such, so everything seems to have been a bit of “hit AND ...
- 20160303 – Thursday – Hay is hot!Hay is hot! Even in my trailer which cools down generally pretty quickly it was so hot last night. I was parked beside a building which had given solid shade during the afternoon and evening. For dinner I just opened ...
- 20160304- Friday- SydneyMy wonderful little escape machine I had a really good sleep last night because it wasn’t a hot night like the night before. Towards morning, however, I woke up  feeling rather hot,  which is a pretty sure sign to me that I ...
- 20160306 – Sunday – Oldies Bible SchoolI arrived at Gail’s place at about 6pm. I rang Gail and she was not expecting me to arrive on Friday. I sent her a message yesterday but she didn’t get it. Luckily I had a key and was able ...
- 20160310 – Thursday – CopingAugust last year, I came to New South Wales to attend my friend Gail’s daughter’s wedding. Looking back I think l managed that trip rather well travelling with my little car and trailer. Also looking back I think the reason I handled ...
- 20160312 – Saturday- Morriset ShowgroundsIt is Saturday morning and I’m sitting at McDonald’s. I never thought I would be grateful for there being a McDonald’s. But when you find yourself in a strange town, I know that I will find at MacDonald’s a place ...
- 20160313 – Sunday – On the way to CobarI am sitting in the BP service station cafe at Cobar waiting for Pauline and Barry Oliver to pick me up and take me back to their home. Pauline and Barry’s home is on 80,000 acres of land some 35 km ...
- 20160314 – Monday – Memorial Meeting with the Thomas’sWe drove to Tristan C’s place and left my car and trailer in front of his house and then we drove towards the Oliver’s farm which is called Kaleno. We drove along bitumen for some time and then along a ...
- 20160315 – Tuesday – About goatsI have realised that Barrie is an absolute font of information about goats. I wanted to know all about his goat farming venture and anything and everything he could tell me about goats. I got Pauline and Barrie to record ...
- 20160315 – Tuesday – A tour of the Oliver’s farmFirst thing in the morning, at breakfast, we listened to a Bible reading on Paulines phone and then after breakfast, Pauline announced that she did not want to record any of her history with me today. It all seemed too ...
- 20160316 – Wednesday – Leaving Cobar and goodbye to the goats.Today is the day we are all leaving Kaleno. Barry and Pauline will drive me to Cobar and to Tristan Cole’s place to pick up my car. From there they will drive on to Cowra and stay in a motel ...
- 20160316 – Wednesday – Leaving Pauline and Barrie from Tristan Coles’ homeAfter I left Tristan Colesâ place, I decided I would travel down the coast, the way I came, but it didnât happen that way. Somehow or other I found myself on the way to Broken Hill and it was too late ...
- 20160318 – Friday – Clare, Shrives and Quixley’sI didn’t sleep a wink last night. Finally at 6 AM I went to sleep at work up again about 9 AM. I felt very dirty and love to have had a shower. I contacted Lynne Shrive and she suggested ...
- 20160321 – Monday – Podiatry, Meg ClothierImmediately after I arrived home from my travels, I called in to see my friend Tim Colliver for him to have a look at my computer and to hopefully fix all the problems that I have had while I was ...
- 20160323 – Wednesday – Catch-up with Darren, Terror attack in BrusselsI went to Vili’s this morning and set up my computer ready for an hour or so’s work. I paid some $$ off of Splitwise for Darren, Splitwise is an app that I have on my iphone which Darren G ...
- 20160324 – Thursday – The Shrives at Villis, and later visited Ali GoreI rang up Ali to make a time to see her sometime in the coming week. Ali said she was going away for the Easter period so invited me up to visit her this evening. I went to Vilis for the ...
- 20080818 – Monday – The day I had a strokeFay and Darren, business partners, some time in 2008, prior to when I had a stroke. This story is for you Peter Halpin, you commented on this photo and said that I looked “so young” in it, and I wrote that ...
- 20160323 – Friday – Easter – Mike Barr’s demonstration of his paintingToday is Easter Friday. I thought about going to Easter Camp, but in the end, I didn’t because it all seemed to hard. I went to Vili’s and typed up Neville Clark’s notes on Revelation and his ...
- 20161230 – Friday – My new-look web-site20161230 – Â Friday – Â My new-look web-site. Yesterday when I logged on to my web site, I found that on my “Pages” link there was no evidence of my data so I couldn’t access any of my work on my dashboard. ...
- Seventy-seven years plus one day! – The day after my birthdayYesterday was my birthday, my 77th birthday, 28th November 2016, and I got to thinking. I received so many lovely phone calls and messages from all of my friends and it made me think about the span of my life ...
- 20170107 – Saturday – Nora Brewer’s Death20170107 – Saturday – Nora Brewer’s Death David Brewer posted this photo on facebook to let all his facebook friends know that his dear mother Nora has died today. He wrote: , “Our darling mum, Nora, passed away in peace this morning. ...
- 20170108 – Sunday – South Adelaide, John and Kay Milverton20170108 – Sunday – South Adelaide, John and Kay Milverton Today was a wonderful day. I went to the meeting at South Adelaide and sat in my usual seat, 2nd row from the front in the big comfortable seats where I ...
- 20170119 – Thursday – The new me20170119 – Thursday – The new me Well, my dear Facebook friends, a few of my Facebook friends have asked me why I havenât been posting on Facebook much for a while. Well, I have been very preoccupied and I will ...
- 20170210 – Friday – My second Grey Nomad AdventureFor the last two months I have been stressing out, a lot! Almost two years ago I took my little trailer, Â that my dear Dad built for me many years ago, on a a solo journey from Adelaide, to a bible ...
- 20170211-16 – To Werri Beach20170211-16 To Werri Beach Jeff told me Friday night that he would have to be at the airport at 8 am Saturday morning and so would have to be up at 7.00 am to make sure he got ready in time. Friday ...
- 20170217-24 – Gail’s place at Morriset20170217- 23 – Searched for a chair At 7.15 I packed up and drove to âThe Blue Goose Cafeâ for breakfast. I have been pretty economical as far as food is concerned but really felt like a nice breakfast this morning. ...
- 20170412 – Easter Camp – Job study by Neville Clark20170412 – Easter Camp – Job Study by Neville Clark Right now I am sitting in the Viewpoint Cafe on the highway at Waikerie. I have just finished breakfast on the balcony overlooking the Murray River. It is a beautiful sunny ...
- 20170412 – Wednesday – decisions, where to stay, Waikerie or Glenloch?20170412 – Wednesday – decisions After breakfast this morning, I drove to Woolworths to buy groceries. I got myself blocked in a dead end in the car park and was having difficulty getting out again. Nice guy helped me. I parked ...
- 20170413 – Thursday – Ablutions In the River20170413 – Thursday – Ablutions In the River It seems as though a year has passed since last night. I got myself all tucked up in bed okay feeling very snug and comfortable, hoping for a peaceful night. I woke at ...
- 20170413 – Thursday – Getting sorted20170413 – Thursday – Getting sorted I have pretty well sat in the same spot for most of the morning and half of the afternoon. People have flowed by me as they all come down to check out the swimming area. ...
- 20170414 – Friday – It Is The Day – First Day Of Camp20170414 – Friday – It Is The Day – First Day Of Camp After a wonderful sleep last night, I woke up feeling really well. To my surprise the flat was covered in mist and it looked as though it was ...
- 20170414- Friday- First Study, Neville Clark On Job.20170414- Friday- First Study, Neville Clark On Job. When I left the Viewpoint Cafe and the âRather be Ridingâ bikers, I drove down to the ferry crossing and found a huge line of cars waiting to cross. It took about 3 ...
- Study 1 – The Book of Job by Neville ClarkStudy 1 – Job by Neville Clark delivered in Houston, Texas. http://www.livoniatapes.com/classes/Neville%20Clark/Hast%20Thou%20Considered%20My%20Servant%20Job/Neville%20Clark%20-%20Hast%20Thou%20Considered%20My%20Servant%20Job%20-%20class%201%20-%20The%20Affliction%20of%20Job.mp3 Study 1 – Job – “The Affliction Of Job” – Neville Clark I will be giving five studies covering the 42 chapters of the Book of Job. The book of Job ...
- Study 4 – Job, by Neville Clark- The preparation of JobStudy 4 – Job, by Neville Clark- The preparation of Job https://www.livoniatapes.com/ Study 4 – Job “the Preparation Of Job/Neville%20Clark/Hast%20Thou%20Considered%20My%20Servant%20Job/Neville%20Clark%20-%20Hast%20Thou%20Considered%20My%20Servant%20Job%20-%20class%204%20-%20The%20Preparation%20of%20Job.mp3 This is the next section of the book of Job, a very intriguing section in fact, this is the section in which ...
- 20170415 – Saturday – Study 3 and 4 of The Book Of Job20170415 – Saturday – Study 3 Of The Book Of Job I got up around 8.00 am his morning and dressed and drove to Waikerie to the Viewpoint Cafe again. They have come to expect me there and they quickly set ...
- 20170416 – Sunday – Exhortation, Regatta, Play and Bonfire20170416 – Sunday – Exhortation, Regatta, Play and Bonfire This morning our little group, Ali and Trev Gore and Leigh and Sherrie Samwell had to move four rows back from where we had been sitting each meeting, so that the stewards ...
- Easter Camps at Glenlock, Waikerie over the yearsEaster Camps at Glenlock, Waikerie – Our 1963 Episode In 1963 Jeff and I went to Waikerie to the Glenlock Easter Camp for the very first time. I think there had only been about three or maybe even two camps before ...
- 20170422 – Saturday – Post Easter Camp20170422 – Saturday – Post Easter Camp Am sitting in Vilis, my “office” and mentally doing a review of the year. Christmas was at Jesia’s place, then the year to now seems to have flown away on wings. I have been ...
- 20170519 – Cumberland’s Special Effort – The Judgment Seat, Darren TappourisA long time ago, and I think it was around 1986 or 1987, a bunch of Sydney boys came to Adelaide around Xmas time, probably for the end of year studies. Amongst them were the Tappouris brothers, Darren and his ...
- 20170531 – Life is like a bell curveRecently, I was chatting with a friend about how difficult it is to get the right balance between âSpiritualâ life and our daily, âWorldlyâ life, and this balance doesnât get easier as the years pass. My friend is 20 years ...
- 20170605 – Monday – A beautiful dayThis morning It was such a beautiful day and so I drove along the seafront and decided to work at The Plank. On Sunday I had gone to South Adelaide for the memorial meeting and on the side of my ...
- 20180501 – Monday – Doctors20180501 – Monday – Doctors Today has been one of the most stressful days I have had in my travels so far. Why? Because I had to visit the doctor at Morisset. I am terrified of doctors. doctors are usually men, and ...
- 20180502 – Wednesday – Trailer20180502 – Wednesday – Trailelr Dear everyone, it is 3.15 am Wednesday morning and I canât sleep because my brain is too active. So I have finally got up and I am sitting here at Gailâs dining table to get it ...
- 20180503 – Thursday – Waiting for my trailer.20180503 – Thursday – Waiting for my trailer. Well, here I am again, sitting in Maccas and waiting 2 hours for my trailer to be completed. I am actually very happy that Maccas exists, because when I am in a strange ...
- 20180503.1 – Thursday – Waiting for my trailer 20180503.1 – Thursday – Waiting for my trailer Having written my diary for so many years, and writing only âto me,â means that I write very fluently and it just flows out of me. So when I went on this trip, and ...
- 20180503 – Thursday – The doctor, again.20180503 – Thursday – The doctor, again. Well, I think I am jinxed! Today was my 2nd visit to the doctor. I think Gail stayed home for the morning to see that no disasters occurred for me and to be around ...
- 20180505 – Saturday – HVE Bike ride at The rowing club, Speers Point Park.20180505 – Saturday – HVE Bike ride at The rowing club, Speers Point Park. Last night, my over-active brain was working at full blast. It is my belief that every problem that we could ever experience has its answer and solution, ...
- 20180508 -Tuesday – Doctor, Again.20180508 -Tuesday – Doctor, Again. I woke up this morning in tears. During the night I had been struggling with too much data, too much input, too many people, to many âWhyâ questions and only coming up with âHowâ answers. I sent ...
- 20180509 – Wednesday – Bible Class20180509 – Wednesday – Bible Class Yesterday I went to the doctor again. I turned up at 1.00 pm yesterday only to find that I had got the dates wrong and my appointment was for Tuesday not Wednesday. To my dismay, the ...
- 20180509 – Wednesday – Bible Class20180509 – Wednesday – Bible Class Yesterday I went to the doctor again. I turned up at 1.00 pm yesterday only to find that I had got the dates wrong and my appointment was for Tuesday not Wednesday. To my dismay, the ...
- 20180510 – Thursday20180510 – Thursday Dear friends, As you know I write to you about my travels and to keep you informed of my whereabouts, and to keep myself safe on my journeying. I have not done to well on this trip and have offended ...
- 20180511 – Friday.20180511 – Friday. I am sitting at a table outside the laundry at the Park I am staying in and I am absolutely frozen through to the backbone, but I have to stay here until all of my batteries are charged. I ...
- 20180512 – Saturday20180512 – Saturday Dear Everyone, I have reduced my friends list down to those original friends that I have been trying to âentertainâ with stories of my adventures and my travels since 2008. That was when I had my stroke and could ...
- 20180512 – Saturday20180512 – Saturday Dear brothers and sisters, I know I said that I would not post again until I left Hunter Valley, but then I thought about it and prayed about it I canât just leave things as they are. This Hunter ...
- 20180521 – Monday – Hunter Valley Review20180521 – Monday – Hunter Valley Review Dear Facebook friends, It is almost the end of May, and I am now staying at the Alstonville Show Grounds. Time has passed since my stay in the Hunter Valley Region. That period of time was ...
- 20180322 – Thursday – âSmall momentsâ – Joanie Bowen and High Tea!20180322 – Thursday – âSmall momentsâ – Joanie Bowen and High Tea! Joanie Bowen (and cohorts), you have exceeded yourselves. What a magnificent occasion you have made this âHigh Tea.â This afternoon everyone at the conference extended their waist measurement by 2 inches, ...
- 20180323.4 – Friday. – Small Moments – At Gailâs home.20180323.4 – Friday. – Small Moments – At Gailâs home. I opened Gailâs front door and after a couple of painful trips back and forth to the car, I managed to bring in my necessary stuff. I climbed upstairs and had a ...
- 20180324.1 – Saturday – Small Moments – Karen and Rod and Forrest20180324.1 – Saturday – Small Moments – Karen and Rod and Forrest I had a fairly disturbed night, because every muscle in my body seemed to be on fire, but that actually cheered me up, because I could tell, that all ...
- 20180323.4 – Wednesday – Small Momentsâ – Photos from today.201803.4 – Wednesday – Small Momentsâ – Photos from today. Too tired to write anything tonight, but here are the photos from today taken at lunch and after Garry Steeles talk this evening. +36 9 Comments 39Imogene Newby K. Clark, Peter Fullwood and 37 ...
- 20180322.3 – Thursday – âSmall Momentsâ – High tea and Jeannie Barton20180322.3 – Thursday – âSmall Momentsâ – High tea and Jeannie Barton You will remember that I said that at Joanie Bowenâs âHigh Tea,â I managed to restrain myself from eating too much by getting Jeannie Barton to get me a ...
- 20180929 – Saturday – Ezekielâs temple20180929 – Saturday – Ezekielâs temple On Sunday Peter Roberts launched his new book on Ezekielâs Temple. I purchased a copy and took it home to read. It was all double dutch to me because I am so mathematically illiterate. …See More 16 Comments 1 ...
- 20180923 – Sunday – Exhort Daniel Edgecombe20180923 – Sunday – Exhort Daniel Edgecombe Some time back when I visited with Anne Fergusson, I ate a delicious soup that she had made for lunch. She used a soup maker and I asked her about it. Well the end result was ...
- 20180921- Friday – Hyde Park20180921- Friday – Hyde Park It is 7.45 am and I am at the Mediterranean. Yesterday I spent some hours with my niece at IKEA, sitting in the cafe chatting away. I have had on and off contact with Christine for years and ...
- 20180920 – Thursday – IKEA20180920 – Thursday – IKEA Today I am meeting my niece Christine S from Darwin at IKEA. This is the first time in years that I have been to IKEA. I used to come here often when they used to have scrambled ...
- 20180918-Tuesday – Elle20180918-Tuesday – Elle This past week I have been busy doing transcripts of NCs study on Demons and also his exhort given at his daughterâs baptism. On Sunday I went to Halifax meeting for the memorial meeting and in the afternoon there ...
- 20180829-20180915- Tuesday to Saturday week.20180829-20180915- Tuesday to Saturday week. Well, I have been very slack and have not written much (nothing) in the last two weeks. Last week I But last visited with my friend Alison and Trevor and shared with them all my memories of ...
- 20180908-10 – Saturday to Monday.20180908-10 – Saturday to Monday. I am using my âplannerâ and finding it very valuable. It means I am able to book things in advance so I don’t forget about them. It also avoids me having those periods when I wake up ...
- 20180907 – Friday – Planning20180907 – Friday – Planning I have just downloaded a âplannerâ to try to get my life in shape. I seem to write my diary and transcribe studies and put them up on fb, but other important things I just let slide, ...
- 20180906 – Thursday- Midweek class.20180906 – Thursday- Midweek class. It was another good night at South reading Luke 14, where Christ was having dinner in the house of one of the chief pharisees. And they were all âwatchingâ him, to see if he would heal ...
- 20180905 – Wednesday – Burcher Muesli20180905 – Wednesday – Burcher Muesli I have just been to the doctor for the very first time since I got home. I got a form from the doctor telling me who to contact at Flinders re checking where I am on ...
- 20180829-20180904 – Tuesday – Alison and Trevor20180829-20180904 – Tuesday – Alison and Trevor Well, I have been very slack and have not written much (nothing) in the last week. But last night I visited with my friends Alison and Trevor and revised all my memories of the last ...
- 20180829 – Tuesday – Frustration20180829 – Tuesday – Frustration I have wasted the WHOLE morning and it is driving me crazy. I use a program called Scrivener to write everything in. It acts as a record of all my facebook posts so I can easily find ...
- 20180829 – Tuesday – Cobar20180829 – Tuesday – Cobar Funny! I am sitting at the cafe on Broadway down from Susieâs, and I have just received a text message from her sister up in Cobar. She always contacts me when she has a âfunnyâ story to tell ...
- 20180817 – Monday – Elaine20180817 – Monday – Elaine Sitting at the Kiosk on such a lovely day, I decided I WOULD ring Elaine B and see if she felt like a coffee. So I rang, and she did, and very soon I saw this YOUNG ...
- 20180827 – Monday – Somerton20180827 – Monday – Somerton I am sitting at âthe Kioskâ on the seafront at âSomerton,â or what used to be called Somerton when I was a girl. It is the beach between Brighton and Glenelg and is now marked by Repton ...
- 2 0180825 – Saturday – The course of Time2 0180825 – Saturday – The course of Time I am sitting at table 44 in the little cafe (whose name I never seem to be able to find out, because I canât see it anywhere while I am sitting at ...
- 20180824 – Friday – Visions of the Kingdom20180824 – Friday – Visions of the Kingdom Since I am putting up Jim Dillinghamâs Visions of the Kingdom, I thought I might just as well put up a photo of Jim. I love his studies because of his explanation of the ...
- 20180823 – Thursday – Fixing lights20180823 – Thursday – Fixing lights I received a text from Susie asking if I had âhad my nana nap,â because if I had, Steve wanted to come around and install new fleuro lights in my flat. So Susie and Steve came ...
- 20180905 – Friday – Ben and Sharon20180905 – Friday – Ben and Sharon I am at âThe Shackâ at West Beach caravan park. I came here because today I am meeting with Peter H for a session on my computer. But when I got to the shack, I found ...
- 20180823 – Thursday – Glenelg to West Beach20180823 – Thursday – Glenelg to West Beach Coming home from Glenelg. +36 1 Comment 7Lesley Anne Targett, Lisa Hollamby and 5 others
- 20180816 – Friday – Women @ Well, sisters class, Hyde Park,20180816 – Friday – Women @ Well, sisters class, Hyde Park, leader Maureen Hauser Present: Janet C. Rosalie M., Fay B, Maureen H, Colleen R, Jane S, Janet J. and others. Chairwoman: Lainie. Today we have Maureen doing the âWoman of Samaria.â Prayer: Lainie Weâll give ...
- 20180822 – Wednesday – Susie20180822 – Wednesday – Susie I worked for most of the day and then finally ventured out into the world around 4.00 pm in the afternoon. I went to the cafe on Broadway, just down from Susie Jâs place. I sent Susie a ...