Tasmania? Never heard of it …
Where are you from? is a fairly standard question when meeting someone for the first time. I’m sure we all get asked that now and again. Perfectly normal. If you come from Australia, no problem. Everyone seems to know Australia. But if you say Tasmania which is where I was born and spent most of […]
Life Down Under
Australia is known as the ‘land down under’ unless you happen to be Australian then it’s ‘Straya’. Australia consists of six states (South Australia, Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania) and two territories: the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The capital city of Australia is Canberra which is situated in […]
Living With Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP)
I have this ‘thing’ called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). It’s a genetic disease that causes irreversible vision loss (low vision) and can lead to complete blindness. I have downplayed this for most of my life because it’s too hard to explain why you can see a bird in the sky but you can’t see the pencil in front […]