Withywindle Wanderers

Here's the link to my fund raising page, if you are interested in making a donation! THANK YOU!!!!!! So, here I am at the office, after a long hard day at work, anticipating my walk/run home with an exhausted and somewhat crestfallen anticipation. Perhaps this is a little bit more what it is like for my sisters who are very poor, around the world. I lost a lot of blood giving birth to Eowyn, and felt weak afterwards and was given blood transfusions. There are many mothers in developing countries walking around with very low haematocrit (from losing blood giving birth and NOT getting to have a blood transfusion, and from a diet low in iron and vitamin C and other nutrients). Their energy levels would be way lower than mine after a long day at work - I have a great diet, I'm healthy, I'm fit, I'm strong. I'm going to enter into the sense of exhaustion and lethargy I have, as a means to feel connected to those for whom I am undertaking this endeavour. Thanks for r...

Hello readers! Today I began a seven day challenge, to walk 10 thousand steps per day, in solidarity with the impoverished women in the world who have to walk an average of just that, every day, to get water and firewood and such. I ran out our driveway with a delightful Coco cheering and clapping, and waved to her as I bounced along. A beautiful rainbow encircled my way, reminiscent of the rainbow picture of Venice at 'Radiance - the Neo-Impressionists' which I indulged in yesterday, by Cross or Signac or somebody... As I ran, I thought about the women in Uganda who would walk to get water. The path was muddy, and the big oblong plastic containers of water were muddy. They balanced them on their heads, with the most amazing, agile posture, necks like swans, queenly amidst poverty and dirt. Their feet were bare, with a little line around the side of dried mud. Some had babies wrapped around their backs in large squares of cloth. The babies would peep out at me, contented ...

Today is Bens' birthday, Melbourne Cup day & the US election. We celebrated 2 of these things at Grandma and Gumps.

Well hi, Eldamar, I am so sorry to have neglected you so utterly in recent months! I shall find a photograph or two, to happily adorn you... or perhaps only one, of my loved one in the sun!!!!

We had a lovely, sunny celebration of Eowyn yesterday at Luna Park.  

...so, today, after dropping Laurel, Clementine and Bump at the airport, Mum and I had lunch together, and Champagne. "Don't tell Dad!" said Mum, a delicious gleam in her eye. Nextly, I went to my dear friend Laura's, and we made up a fabulous cocktail. "Don't tell Max!" said Laura, smiling delightfully. It's always more fun when it's "forbidden", isn't it???!!