Judy Evans

@JudyEv (379869)

Rockingham, Australia

Joined myLot 11 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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We've been working on our garage

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 14 May

We’ve been in this retirement village for almost five years. In that time, we’ve downsized to one car which means we now have more room in the two-car garage. It was time to reorganise our tools and bits and pieces. We moved...

western australia

retirement village

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A cheque for 5c

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 14 May

I went through some old files today trying to find something for Vince. I found what he was looking for but I also found this cheque. Decades ago we bought a property and when everything had been finalised the real estate agency...

western australia

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How many cousins do you have?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 12 May

I’ve spoken about my friend who recently celebrated her 80th birthday. She gave a short speech at her party. Her mother was one of ten children and her father one of eleven. She was able to name all the aunts and uncles on both...

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Ultrasounds of puppies

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 10 May

Our friend’s grand-daughter and her partner have purchased a golden retriever puppy. It’s only just been born and will be coming from the Eastern States. It will an expensive dog with air fares added to the actual price of the...

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golden retriever

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Off to a party tonight.

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 9 May

We are going to a friend’s 80th birthday celebration this evening. We’ve been friends since our children went to the same school and the kids are now all in their 50s. She and her husband were the ones who introduced us to the...

western australia

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Mouse plagues in Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 8 May

Australia is having a mouse plague in several country areas, one of which is Morawa in West Australia’s wheatbelt. The mice are out of control, over-running schools, houses, shops with dead and dying mice clearly visible on the...

western australia

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A wheelchair on the Munda Biddi

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 6 May

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease affecting the central nervous system. It affects different people in different ways. For Clare Reilly, the symptoms are mostly physical. Recently, to raise funds for research into the...

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multiple sclerosis

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Swim faster! Swim faster!

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 5 May

Following on from my last post about recurring attacks by dingoes on people, I read an article this morning where several people at Lake Argyle were bitten by freshwater crocodiles. Lake Argyle is home to about 35,000 freshwater...

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freshwater crocodiles

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A new danger down under

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 5 May

It’s been a while since people on myLot have made a big fuss about how dangerous Australia is. Spiders, snakes, crocodiles – they all get mentioned as reasons why some people don’t want to come to Australia. Many a time I’ve said...

western australia

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Clever parenting

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 4 May

Some parents seem to take to raising kids with the greatest of ease while others can find it quite a stressful experience. I saw something of interest the other day. I think it came up on somebody’s Facebook account. Two...

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creative parenting

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Nothing much to say

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 3 May

Here’s something different. I’m stuck for words. I don’t have anything entertaining to write about. So I’ll write about food and a funny expression I heard. I’m on a soft diet now. For dinner, I had mashed potato in a bowl with...

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funny expressions

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A knotty lampshade

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 2 May

Have you ever done macrame? I haven’t but I’ve often admired it. I thought this was a macrame lampshade but now I've blown the photo up I can see it's made of beads of some kind. The lampshade in the photo was in the Nungarin...

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Downhill all the way

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 2 May

I’m watching Would I Lie To You and a comment reminded me of a story my brother-in-law tells about a bike ride he and Vince went on when they were teenagers. My BIL told the listener that they travelled a long way in a very...

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The apple fell close to the tree

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 1 May

Since I wrote about Fred Hollows and his sight-saving cataract surgery, I’ve had a lot of ads promoting his foundation. Fred's son, Dr Cam Hollows, appears on the ads so I wondered if he was now working for the foundation but it...

cataract surgery

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No MRI for me for a fortnight - not that I need one

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 1 May

Following the operation on my throat, I was sent home with two cards. You can see one in the photo. I was told to carry them at all times for a fortnight, until the clips in my throat have passed through my body. It is very...

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The communion wine that wasn't

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 30 Apr

I hope I haven’t written about this before. I can’t find a previous post through the usual search methods. It was brought to mind following discussion about gluten-free communion wafers. Many years ago, a breakaway church group...

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News from our niece

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Apr

One of our nieces emailed me last night. We house-sat for them last year, looking after two cats and some guinea pigs. Among other news was that the male guinea pig had escaped from the ‘monastery’ and had been living in the...

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Covering their backs perhaps

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Apr

I’ve just had my first overnight stay in hospital since 1974. The first was when our second child was born. Vince has been in hospital several times in that period so I wasn’t completely naïve about various procedures. However,...

western australia

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Gluten-free wafers for church-goers

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Apr

Many of you would know that our younger son lives in Ireland. A few weeks ago, his 87-year-old mother-in-law fell and broke her hip. Unfortunately, she didn’t survive the operation and was buried on a few days ago. Through the...

gluten free wafers

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We've scored ourselves a workbench

Judy Evans @JudyEv (379869) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Apr

When we moved here from our 15 acres, we had to downsize in a big way. Recently, someone in the village was offering a free workbench so we were quick to offer to take it off their hands. It was a bit tatty and the top was...

western australia

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