Gerringong/Werri Beach, Christmas 2013

Gerringong - "This hilltop village overlooks a great swathe of blue ocean that promises long days of sport and sunshine. Stay around town a while and you'll discover this atmospheric town also has a taste for the finer things in life, including wines, great fishing and golf. There are seven courses in close proximity to Gerringong. Gerringong is also within easy reach of Sydney - less than a two-hour drive away;€“ yet it might as well be another world."

Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park

Malaysian Birdwing

Kuala Lampur Butterfly Park - "is a veritable secret paradise where butterflies actually dance nonchalantly in clumps of fern amidst scented beautiful flowers and flowering vines."


On our way back from Australia to the UK in 2014 we stopped over in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for five days.

One of the places we visited was the Butterfly Park.

Sydney Botanical Gardens, Hyde Park and Woolloomoolloo

January 2014

We walked Sydney city centre from top to bottom. It is a very pretty city.

Rodd Point, Sydney, Australia Christmas 2013/2014

Rodd Point - "is a suburb in the Inner West^[1] of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 9 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay. Rodd Point sits on Iron Cove, on the Parramatta River. Rodd Point is adjacent to the suburbs of Five Dock and Russell Lea. Rodd Island is a small island in Iron Cove, just off Rodd Point. The Rodd Point memorial sits in Rodd Park, beside the Dobroyd Aquatic Club. Rodd Park is also colloquially known as "Point". The Bay Run passes beside Rodd Park and is popular with joggers, walkers and cyclists."

Monaco/Monte Carlo

Every year when we go to France, we visit a friend who stays in Menton (on the French/Italian border). It is about a two hour walk along the boardwalk to Monte Carlo, but we've never managed to have the time to do it.

Out and about - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

On our way back from Australia in January 2014, we stopped over in Kuala Lumpur for four days...and loved the vibrancy of the place.

The unstoppable gallop

The Year of the Wooden Horse seems to be raring to go and I am having difficulty keeping control. I know if I let it have its head, it will end in a bit of a disaster.

I reminds me of my horse that I had as a teenager. He had this thing about a section of the farm where he'd get all worked up and I'd have difficulty stopping him from springing into a headlong gallop down the sandy strait. He simply wanted to run like there was no tomorrow. Sometimes I'd let him do what he wanted because the adrenalin pumping exhilaration we both felt was amazing, but mostly I'd hold him back until he'd calmed down before taking a gentle canter.

I kinda feel like that now, I am stopping my lively Green Wooden Horse from galloping at a frantic rate with me hanging on for dear life!

Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Batu Caves

Living the mastery

 

I AM the dream.

I am a living meditation.

I love the insanely marvelous feeling of mastering...I am not sure what...myself, my energy, my world?

Honestly, it doesn't matter that I cannot identify or name it. It is magic and there are times when little old me pops up and wonders in awe at the changes and has a brief flash of uh-oh.

Making an effort

In discussion with friends the other day, the subject of relationships came up. The question I was asked was - how did I manage the changes every relationship goes through and still have a good relationship with my hubby?

I wasn't really sure how to answer it. I do it organically. As I go along I tweak things, always using the world around me as a gauge to see what needs working on within me. I make mistakes and through my mistakes I learn - well, mostly I learn. Sometimes I gotta hit my head several times before I figure it out!

Starting over

A new world and life beckons. 

Once we’d made the decision that we’d been edging closer to day by day, week by week, month by month, it felt like a load had been lifted from my shoulders. For the last few years we have been a holding pattern, much like a plane waiting to land…and now all the right conditions seem to have clicked into place and we are heading for the landing strip.

Making sure I don't escape!

This past year or more, I've noticed I'd have a vacant - almost drunk look on my face in some photos. I never pondered on it too much until a few months ago when looking at some pics hubby had taken, I realised that there was an inordinately large amount of them. Puzzled, I asked the question - WHY?!

It turns out I've not been completely anchored in my body. With all the energetic changes and occurrences since December 2012, I'd slip out of my body and hubby would happen to take a photo at that moment in time!

Kiama, Australia 2013/2014

Kiama - "Kiama /kaɪˈæmə/ is a township 120 kilometres south of Sydney in the Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia in the Municipality of Kiama. At the 2006 census, Kiama had a population of 12,286 people.^[1] One of the main tourist attractions is the Kiama Blowhole. The seaside town features several popular surfing beaches, caravan parks and numerous alfresco cafes and restaurants. Its proximity to the south of Sydney makes it an attractive destination for a large number of day trippers.^[2]"

Whilst we spent Christmas in Gerringong - we did some sightseeing and Christmas shopping in Kiama.

Illawara Fly Treetop Walk, Australia

Illawara Fly Treetop Walk - "The award winning Illawarra Fly Treetop Walk is one of Australia’s premier treetop walk  experiences. The only walk of its kind in NSW and one of only a handful of elevated steel treeop walks in the world, the ‘Fly’ is an immersive nature experience. The gentle 1.5km return walk takes in native rainforest, the steel walkway which features two gently swaying cantilevered arms, and a central tower raised nearly 50 metres from the forest floor. Positioned 710 metres above sea level, the stunning views take in everything from the rainforest floor into the canopy and out to the Pacific Ocean."

Dawning of something new

So...here we are in Australia...again.

Last year when we came to visit, it took a while to adjust to the strong, slightly harsh energies. The Guardians of the land were distant, extremely formal and not too friendly.

This time feels so very different. We simply slipped into it - no adjustment necessary. The Guardians...wow what a radical change...far more relaxed and welcoming as though we have been pulled into the bosom of our family. It really feels like we've arrived home, not something I was expecting at all.

Recipe for homemade moisturiser

I have amended this a wee bit as I realised, rather belatedly, that it doesn't read very well AND that I left out one ingredient - oops!
 
I have been making my own cleanser and moisturiser for more than 20 years. I started doing this mostly because of the chemicals found in over-the-counter stuff. At least this way I know exactly what I am putting onto/into my body. I am constantly changing the recipe – our bodies like a bit of variety. Some occasions we made need more of one oil than of another.

An oopsie that turned out rather beneficial

Yesterday I decided to make a new batch of moisturiser in readiness for our trip to Oz.

My hand slipped as I was putting the Sesame Oil in. It is usually a quarter teaspoon but it simply sloshed in - oops! Then I added the Vitamin E oil, intending to do a few squirts into the already melted oils, but blow me down...being a new bottle from a range I'd never used before I never realised that it didn't have a squirty top...and a huge blob (half the bottle) plopped out!

Universe in action - I wasn't really thinking about the need for protection whilst in Oz - the temperatures out there this time of year can hit the mid 40s (Celsius). I was simply doing it all by rote, having done it countless times over the years. I do change the recipe on the odd occasion, simply because the skin needs a change and sometimes I feel I need more of one oil than another. But when I do, I think about what I am changing.

Losing of part of me without loving it

I've had a very small sebaceous cyst in my hair for years. It's never bothered me and so I've ignored it...until a few months ago when it started feeling not 'quite right', although I cannot say what it was that made me feel that way.

I finally got my arse into gear and made a visit to the GP surgery. A minor op was scheduled and I had it cut out on Thursday on my way to work - a doddle I thought, like having a tooth pulled.

Hmm...once the local anaesthetic started to wear off, it really hurt like hell and I started to feel rather fluey. But, I figured, being at work until 10.30 that night would keep my mind off the problem and so I got on with it, ignoring the pain...all the while thinking I was being such a poop.

Distributing the dramatic solar energies evenly

Over the last two weeks I kept getting a sore on the roof of my mouth on the hard palate - in the area where it meets the soft palate. Initially I thought it was merely because I was rundown or had eaten something that had caused it or it was part of the ascension symptoms (blah di blah di blah) and it would eventually heal and go away.

But it didn't. It seemed to get worse. In fact started to feel like a burn, was getting bigger and one section of my gum was also getting inflamed with what felt like a burn. 

It could not possibly be a burn, I thought. I tried to ignore it for a day or so, but the 'burn' thought kept bugging me. What could be burning me and why the top of my mouth?

Entropy

I’ve not written for a while…mostly because there is nothing much to say…and yet there is. Anyways, much has been written by others and I have nothing to add to it…as I find myself fully immersed in something far beyond my ken.