Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
Rockingham, Australia
Joined myLot 9 years ago
Hi there. My husband, Vince, and I live in a gated lifestyle village in Western Australia. One adult son lives in Melbourne, Victoria and the other in Ireland.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Mar
When we toured Ireland and Europe in 2017, Vince wrote a blog for his eldest brother who wasn’t on Facebook. Now he has tidied up the blog and had it printed as a book, which you can see in the photo. He’s borrowed the title from...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Mar
I read a short article about how people arrange their bookshelves. Some might do it by author or perhaps subject. Apparently, one op shop (thrift store) arranged their books by colour which seems a bit ‘off’.
My books are...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Mar
I heard about a very interesting creature the other day. I thought it was a snake but it’s actually a flatworm.
The genus is ‘Bipalium’ , loosely called ‘hammerhead worms’ or ‘broadhead planarians’ as the head area is shaped...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Mar
We went to a musical quiz night last night at the clubhouse and how I wished we could have had @FourWalls on our table. The winning table had 93 questions correct out of 100 so they did really well. Luckily, we had one...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Mar
A while back I read a non-fiction book entitled Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt and written by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart.
The Vanderbilts were once America’s richest family, and it would be impossible to tell their story in a few...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Mar
Some of you might have read that my husband needs open-heart surgery and that it is scheduled for the middle of May. The sternum/breastbone will be sliced through the middle so the surgeon can get to the heart. Then it’s put back...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Mar
The photo has nothing to do with the discussion but all the dots show where we went in our motor-home in 2015.
A throwaway comment on a TV programme made me hurry off to Google to find out how the length of an inch was...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Mar
Have you heard of the village of Tsovkra-1? It’s a tiny, secluded village in the southern republic of Dagestan in Russia, nestled in the Greater Caucasus Mountains.
The ‘1’ in the name differentiates the village from another of...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Mar
The photo has nothing to do with the discussion. It's one of the superb desserts we had on the Queen Mary.
Another week has started in the southern hemisphere. Do you find that, when you have regular events on regular days, the...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Mar
It’s St Pat’s Day and it brings back memories of the first cabaret I ever went to. Cabarets were a big deal with the young folk in my home town. The town hall would be divided into ‘logues’ which sat around 8-10 people; you took...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Mar
Last time I visited the doctor to get a prolia injection which is supposed to help prevent osteoporosis, I was told my last blood test showed too-low levels of calcium and Vitamin D. I’ve had a month of gulping down tablets to...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Mar
We’ve all watched comedians who take off or impersonate other celebrities. In Australia, this is often called 'taking the mickey' out of someone.
Some are better at these impersonations than others. They might pick on a...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Mar
We were introduced to this village by old friends who now live about ten doors up from us. They have become good friends of their neighbours and by association, we are now too. The six of us take it in turns to have coffee at one...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Mar
Have you noticed how the questions on forms have changed somewhat over the past few years?
Once you never would have seen ‘what pronoun do you prefer’. Vince was highly tempted to put ‘me’, in answer to that.
I have a bit of...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Mar
I haven’t posted for a couple of days. The time had been dragging over the last few days until we met with Vince’s heart surgeon last night. Until then, we weren’t sure what was going to happen but now he will have open heart...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Mar
I wrote about the graphic violence in a film which made me walk out of the theatre. One myLotter responded that, over time, people can get desensitised through a steady diet of horror and violence. Action scenes now are more and...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Mar
The photo shows golf balls which we’ve hung from the ceiling to tell us when we’re in the right place to stop to allow the garage doors to come down safely behind the cars.
A few weeks ago, a stone flew up while we were driving...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Mar
The photo has nothing to do with the discussion. It's a strelitzia flower; also known as Bird of Paradise.
My last post was about touch-typing. I didn’t learn to type until I was in my late 30s, at which point I went to a...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar
The photo has nothing to do with the text. It's another stone bridge we saw in our European travels.
We live in a retirement village and go to movies in the clubhouse once a week. Only ten or a dozen people turn up but that’s...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Mar
The photo has nothing to do with the text.
Vince is reading the autobiography of Malcolm Turnbull, one of our former prime ministers. Vince keeps telling me bits and pieces from the book.
The machinations of a political party...
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