Life

Farewelling mum

My mum Julie Betteridge passed away on 30 November 2020, aged 60, after a two year battle with cancer. Below is the speech I delivered at...

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Sorry about the outage…

Turns out this blog was down for a couple of months and I didn’t even notice, because 2020. I got a couple of emails from my web host...

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Well that escalated quickly.

Just a month ago, those freaking out about COVID-19/coronavirus in Australia looked like a fringe group, conspiracy theorists buying too...

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2020 this doesn’t bode well…

I’ve just spent the last two and a half weeks in a bad ME/CFS crash after our major conference at work. The conference wipes me out every...

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Puppy

I got my puppy. His name is Asterix, he’s now five months old, and he is extremely cute and full of energy and mischief. He sleeps with...

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Airport blues

Sitting here waiting for my flight back to Canberra after my holiday and starting to feel anxiety creeping back in. I’m really tired,...

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The ME/CFS five year anniversary roadshow

I’m currently living out of a Tarago that has been converted into a campervan, hopping around the small towns near Byron Bay. I booked a...

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Burnout burnout

This year has been pretty hectic. Big staff changes at work, covering various responsibilities and always having new ones land on my plate,...

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Homeowner and tired person

Oh wow, I haven’t written on here since April. It has really been a crazy year. In May, we found out we were basically getting evicted...

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Islands and angsts

I haven’t written on her for ages, which is pretty much the usual story anyway! I got through the mega-conference at work, again...

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Pressure points

The last six months has been hard and tiring, and I am now back in the midst of hard and tiring as we prepare for a major event at work....

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Stress sewing

Just sitting here wondering why my mother has disappeared ‘up the street’ for six hours when we are about to embark on an...

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