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November Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Collecting Smiles” — Spoilt for choice — I picked smiles Vidya has wanted to eye-spy my shoe collection for a while. So I thought I’d sneak one last Collecting Smiles challenge in. This is, of course, only part of my shoe collection. …

November Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Collecting Smiles” — I sit. I bake. I contemplate. I, Rotto, like a good sit in the sun. I, Rotto, am mindful that the sun is nice and hot and warms me. And so I bake. (Sunbake, that is, not cake baking. However, I’m not opposed to a good cake. Although, I, Rotto, do prefer the eating part to…

Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle — Radiation week one, done and dusted. Remember that pesky skin cancer I had removed from my right ear? I have six risk factors that the little sucker will grow back. Seven, if you count the fact that this is the second skin cancer I’ve had removed from my right ear. Some of them (lots of them!)…

November Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Collecting Smiles” — Smiles for every occasion or mistake. The kidlets love opening up my prize box and seeing what’s on offer. It’s always a fun surprise because they never quite know what I might have inside. Prizes range from bendy pencils, bouncy balls, slap bands, and an assortment of fancy erasers. Depending on my mood, I refer to…

November Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Collecting Smiles” — And they say dogs don’t smile Dogs have their own personalities. Rotto is full of mischief and sticks his nose into everything, which often gets him into trouble. Chilli is anxious and full of nerves. The slightest thing can set off her alert radar. She’s not good with change. …

November Six Word Photo Story: “Collecting Smiles” — Stand back. Don’t spoil the illusion. Pre-COVID, I had some pretty grand plans for my 50th. It would land on Melbourne Cup Day, which is known (apart from the actual race) as being a great day to do a fundraising luncheon. Not many people with Cystic Fibrosis make it to 50. Statistically, it’s around 5% —…

SWPSC: “Collections” & Freestyle Stories — October Conclusion — I’m using a unique classification system. You’d think that a librarian’s home library would be neat and categorized properly. Not this one! This is my (mostly) signed book collection. They’re arranged in a very rough order. By rough, I mean I’ve crammed them onto the shelf in the order they fit in some rather broad categories. …

October Six Word Photo Story Challenge “Collections” — I’m saving this lot from landfill Remember my impressive pill-popping skills from Seventy-three a Day Keeps the Doctor at Bay? All those medications create an awful lot of blister packs. It used to be quite the contribution to landfill. Years ago, there was an option to get a special bag from Australia Post to send blister…