82 Not Out! Hits the keyboard again

Yes...it’s about time and you will cheer because this update doesn’t go anywhere near the U.S. elections. How good is that?

            Why the long absence? Simple really...spent eight days in both the North and South Surgical wards at Cairns Base Hospital...and didn’t have an op. How good is that? Well it’s pretty good when you receive the kind of care I did. All praise to the staff. Over loaded in every department and area including the latest technology-they remain caring and professional coping with patients even as difficult as this outspoken Not Outer. Enuff of all that...I could tell you the whole story but enough to say it was a MIGHTY BIG WAKE UP CALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BIG BIG BIGGEST JOY -WHANAU ALL SAFE IN N.Z. EARTHQUAKES.

   scared and concerned during tremors but all safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Note- not a word about the U.S. elections or the unbelievable chaos trauma, displacement tragedies, riots and violence rocking our planet. My hero of the month the one man found in U.S. who did not know the election result...(tv little clip)

Now the joyfull stuff after a few weeks recovery and moving into a whole new lifecycle, diet, and hospital referral appointment diary –oh just love the nurses at North Cairns Community Health Facility..They are .the best ever helping me stay Not Out and getting me back into short fiction, poetry and blogging.

THEN-Unbelievable joy- Captain and Mrs Clara (or was it Candice?) Curlew appeared at my backdoor to parade their two new chicks. Amazing little chaps with such long long spindly legs. Just seeing them parading with such confidence lifted the heart strings.

THEN I listened to Alan Alda’s Press Club address. What a fabulous performance and well worth following up. This great actor has been working for years with scientists helping them to engage and communicate with listeners. He expressed concern about the way writers particularly educationalists share text with listeners. I have been saying for years that few writers share their original work effectively. Summing that up Alda’s advice: “excitement is contagious-so enthuse listeners.”  is the way to honour your own creative writing. Hopefully a few Not Outer addresses with tips on that  in 2017.

THEN- more joy watching the on screen Wiggles visit to Yarrabah-yes, excitement is contagious-what a delight to watch the young faces there!

THEN an unexpected lunch outing to the Baron River Falls Hotel –wonderful to step into such a historical treasure. Once a home from home for timber workers, the Tully Hotel developed as a stop on the Tableland rail line. Such historic places are always a joy for a writer encouraging one to dip into the past.

A big joy to finish off today – The physio at NCCHF took one look at me pushing the wheelie I had been given (don’t ask how...don’t even go there... never ask a poor writer how he or she comes by things)) and stated that it was a definite No No for me because half the time I was pushing with the brake on. Within ten minutes I had signed for  a NEW WHEELIE to be delivered before Christmas!!!!

The phone just rang as I was writing this...so someone up there  (you know where away from planetary chaos )is already reading this blog!!!

It is  being delivered tomorrow!Wonderful Queensland Labour Government!!!!!!

WOW! This Not Outer is beginning to live again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some short stories and poems coming your way soon!

New books Spin Into Drama and Spin Into Speech & Drama Early Years   

have hit New Zealand -to be launched in Cairns soon.