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Happy New Year Sandra and Australia!!!

Happy New Year

Love the new title

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Tina

Happy, Happy New Year to Australia!!!

Ooooo a brand new journal...I promise not to sully with frivolous comments...yet!!

Here's to good health and happiness! Slainte!!!

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April

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Many thanks April, Rob, Franny and Tina! The land under the Southern Cross and I appreciate the good wishes! Au contraire dear Franny - please sully to your heart's content!

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It struck me yesterday, in the midst of total chaos of moving from city to Bay - there are some years when a particularly useful ray of enlightment shines upon this Fox and other years zilch in the way of personal growth direction. Thankfully, and who'd a thunk it with all that's happening, at the very end of 2006 the Cosmos dropped some true gems into my pathway.

The first was that book of Nourishing, Natural Foods which I posted earlier. Hot on those heels came a delightful little missive by an American called John A Bright-Fey - A Morning Cup of Tai Chi (of which, amazingly, even DS approves for me!) Then, The New Femine Brain by Mona Liza Schulz looks interesting. Finally decided 2007 will see the Fox brain getting its head around climate change issues - who better to explain it to me than me ole mate Tim Flannery with 'We are the Weather Makers' Tim is a conservationist of note in Aus and also a biodiversity specialist but my favourite of his publications is 'Throwim Way Leg' a lovely look at Papua New Guinea. A beautiful conversation about a beautiful nation. Any people who can identify a helicopter as 'Mixmaster belong im Jesus Christ' have got my lifelong attention! But the icing on the cake of enlightenment for me this year is Pamela Allardice's 'Slow Up'............I LOVE IT!!!

Basing her food chapter on Hipprocrates' 'Let food be thy medicine'....Pamela suggests that instead of focusing on what one CANNOT eat - its much more useful to focus on what one CAN eat! This concept really resonates with me. I like it. I also like her concept that it's useless stoking the body with good quality fuel if it cannot use it all efficiently and effectively. Again, a most useful addition to my knowledge base of weight management.

I'm pleased that I invested in the xxy kitchen applicances of juicer and food processor a month or so ago too. I've decided to make all my own stock this year, vegetable, meat and chicken.

Exercise. That's going to be different as well. Curves is fine. However, I think I noted a few posts back that the Curves instructor got very antsy with my statement of being bored whilst doing weight resistance exercise. Of course, she felt I was putting physically orientated activity down. (I wasn't - but if she felt the cap fitted then she can wear it!) I AM bored with lots of/only physical activity. Hopefully can address that issue in the next few weeks.

Looking forward to doing the decorating on my tiny cottage. Its shaping up well - and seems to lend itself perfectly to silks,velvets/lace/lavender/rose pot pourri etc (ALL OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS) Bought a lovely old silver plate from the antique man - he also gave me a lovely silver Victoria pot pourri bowl as a house warming gift, and I had one old brass one a fine Filipino gentleman gave me from his family collection at Cebu (when DS was born actually) The antique man also delivered my wonderful old hand carved blackwood Chinese Trunk - gorgeous peonies on it - so I've filled the silver and brass with pot pourri and they look great on it. DS bought me a small water feature with a Buddha on a small plinth and a bowl for water - perfect in my tiny paved front courtyard. I'll choose more plants to put in once I"ve sussed sun/shade patterns.

Stripped the garden out to bare bones - and planted a lacecap hydrangea and gardenia with some native violets as ground cover as a new beginning for it.

I can 'see' the cottage better now and what I need to do with it. Fortunately, no structural work required. Just some minor tidying of gutters etc and interior paint work. Going to have soft creams and coffee au lait colours and one ceiling is the old pressed metal flowers etc - so will pick that out in the coffee colour I think.

Also preparing to work on family history - which I think I noted late last year. Mostly our history is well documented, including the convict ships on which we arrived. So I'm just going to focus on personal profiles of the descendents - and just one 'stream' of the original family. We're calling it 'Before its too late'...........and we'll 'vanity' publish it I think. I'll still be working with my 2 groups in the city, but taking more time to 'smell the roses' (literally!) as well as plant some more!!!

What was that you were saying about sullying Franny? Does author's waffling come into that category I wonder??? In all - a fun and promising agenda though! Lots of pebbles to cast into the Cosmic pond to energise, inform and give an aging Fox a stake in the future eh!

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Oh, what great ideas you have for the forth coming year. Please continue to inspire me, you younger folks always keep me interested in new things. Seriously, you do get me to thinkin'

Have a Happy New Year Ole' Mate.

Hey!! Cheeky Devil!! Great to see ya ole mate!!! Younger folks indeed!!! I'll be after you Berta Dott - you'll be sorry for teasing the Fox!!!!

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I love the name of your 2007 Journal Foxie. Have a great New Year!

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Many thanks Heather - you too!

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Happy New Year!

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Beach - A pleasure to read your new journal! So much to think about in one post that i didn't know where to begin to comment. That focusing in on what you CAN eat philosophy has been one of mine for the past almost 4 years since I've been low carb. I agree that weight bearing exercise can be boring. So I bring my radio headset and listen to my favorite ploitical discussion radio station. Hope you have a wondeful 2007!

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Hi Fox...just stopped in to say Happy New Year....I hope 2007 holds great things for you

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Hi Foxy,

Your new location sounds wonderul, are you close to the water? Is this a temporary move?

Anyway, Happy New Year to you!! It won't be long now till the Aussie Open!

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