OK - this is my book - Mosman Meanders & foreshore flavours

Hi Babyboomers

Mosman Meanders & foreshore flavours is a coffee table book

Ok this is my book.  It's taken 2 years to write and it's been an amazing learning curve in so many ways.  I thought you might like to know what else I do with my time when I'm not blogging.

Mosman Meanders and foreshore flavours has been described as a ‘Must have gift' – Pages & Pages, after the book’s successful launch in December 2012.  It’s worth considering as a gift, with Mothers Day coming up as it will appeal to, families, residents and ex-patriots as a reference or a memento.

It’s a photographic style coffee table book, featuring  walks along the magnificent foreshores between Mosman and the Spit, and contains reference to the rich history and cultural heritage of the area.   Bushland walking tracks provide opportunities to view major Sydney icons such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, as well as some of the newly opened, navigational and maritime sites.   The book lists casual food and cafe destinations with recipes for readers to experience themselves.

You can pick up a copy  through local bookstores and some local cafes, or purchase online at http://mosmanmeanders.blogspot.com.au .  This blog link will tell you more about the book which has proven popular, through the Pages & Pages on-line brochure, with expatriates  of Mosman.

 

My journey has released me from the spectre of retirement and since I'm now addicted to writing, there is a new book following of course. 
This one is going to be about retirement or more correctly about non-retirement, which will include interesting insights into this period of our lives.
Cheers C


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Stuff I haven't done YET that I would like to make time for

Hi R and other BB friends

R wrote -
"Yet", what a great word. Three little letters that mean so much more...at a future time. I think YET should be added to our COG - Crazy Ole Women, list of words. It's the perfect word for a retired boomer...your extra time, your excellent time, your easy time...something like that. I'll work on it. COG on.

Clara says - I hadn't really thought about the word "Yet" yet, but it's truly a great word since it is filled with hope for the future. As well, it allows one to still have time to realise ambitions, dreams, unfulfilled desires - with one fabulous word it is all there in the future just waiting to happen soon, or when I get around to it. So it it my VERY best word - YET! What am I going to be/do when I grow up/have time to be myself?
We could devote an entire COG to it, "Things we haven't done YET"

ps R - we need to keep a log (not blog) of COG list of words. I'm not good with lists so perhaps you could do that. G says that if I made a list at the beginning of the day then I might get more done. !#@? I will be responsible for keeping the Positive Retirement Blueprint. Do you know what, that is another retirement factor here ie Make lists if you want to, but some days let the creative flow happen. We have spent our lives with TO DO lists - now is our time for the TO BE time, which doesn't necessarily need a list unless it is something like, 'Stuff I haven't done YET that I would like to make time for"

Welcome to my journey as I photograph something I create everyday for a year... RRT

Berry Nice...March 8th
I wish you could hear as well as see this photo. Our marsh is teeming with every bird imaginable. A veritable symphony, a cacophony! Necklace with pewter pendant.
Clara - it is berry nice to experience spring with you. A warm, dramatic neckpiece, heralding the spring. Perhaps we should wear more symbolic pieces as part of our reflection of the changing of seasons. Nature knows when Spring is coming, just like the groundhog. I had a framed card on the wall for many years which said, "Faith is a bird that sings in the dark, knowing that the dawn will come." There were times when I needed to know that.

More practical matters - you can probably video from your camera and upload it, just as you can upload photos. Then, even if it was upside down, as most of mine tend to be when the wrong prompt is chosen, you can hear the cacophony, an excellent word. I am just about to try this, as well as attempt to listen to all the saved stuff on "How to Use Blogger".



We need to make cogging user - friendly for me and you and our friends.

Cheers Clara




















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Creating Excitement - and Hogging

Hi All those Babyboomers out there in Cyber Space
R wrote "My husband is getting in on this. I think I'll call it HOGGING. Did I mention he's an industrial psychologist? So he says you do this to yourself because you NEED to hold yourself to a higher standard. It's all about risk, the possibility of failure creating the excitement.
Course he is also half Italian and can remember his grandmother, Flomana Rosana, stringing homemade pasta through their house and not allowing Josephine Rosana Donatelli (his mom)to cook it."


Clara - HOGGING - I love it! I enjoyed your husband's comments - thought provoking - I hadn't thought of it that way ie by taking risks I am creating excitement for myself. Perhaps positive retirement could include more risktaking.

What wonderful lyrical names - Flomana Rosana...... Josephine Rosana Donatelli ......Josephine needs to finish with 'a' - G's Italian is simple; it just includes the 'a' after most words. I can feel a song ........

Speaking of G he has risen to the occasion by offering to cook his famous Roman Spring Lamb (next blog)which will take away some of the pressure (but may lessen the risktaking and excitement.)


'Out of Africa' is simply stunning. It would look great with neutrals.



Welcome to my journey as I photograph something I create everyday for a year... RRT
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Out of Africa...March 3rd

Necklace of Batik Bone and Brass



























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