What do you do when you run out of food for the seventh time in seven days? Why - you send the grandchildren home while you still have grocery money left of course!!! Yes, dear readers, the The Annual March of the Grandchildren has taken place again. As suspected last year, the eldest has moved on from … Continue reading Staying Connected to the Grandchildren in the “Real World”
Stuff
Miscellaneous Observations on life, love, family, retirement, Australian politics, philosophical musings, and all that other stuff you shove in a cupboard because you don’t know where else to put it.
Sharing a Message of Hope and Inspiration for 2016
Everyone has a story to tell. I had no doubt about that before I Belong to No One was published, and in the six months it has been out there in the big wide world, that belief is re-enforced every week. Often times it will the most random sentence which sparks a memory in another person, and … Continue reading Sharing a Message of Hope and Inspiration for 2016
BAYKO – The Original Plastic Building Sets
There is a scene in I Belong to No One where, as a sixteen-year-old with time on my hands, I drag out the toys belonging to my nine-years-older brother without his permission. I spread out his Hornby rail track and engines. I build signals and gates with his Meccano set, and I drive his Dinky toys … Continue reading BAYKO – The Original Plastic Building Sets
GWEN WILSON, Author, aka The Reluctant Retiree 