A dilemma many of us have faced, maybe it’s a wedding, or a party–we want to invite all our friends and family, but can we? Is it possible to have an open invitation without the situation getting out of hand? I remember as a young teenager being upset because my older brother would be invited […]

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In Memory and celebration of my father’s life… He would have been 88 today…   DAVID BY NAME CLEMENT BY NATURE Ron and Lina Trudinger’s third child was born in Adelaide on January 13, 1928. His parents named him Clement David Trudinger. He was a much longed for child as he arrived eight years after […]

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We’ve all heard of the unfortunate person who’s gone for a loan, only to discover their application has been rejected—not because they have a poor credit rating—no, previously, their rating has been perfect—but because some creep has stolen their identity, spent all their credit, and accrued a bad credit-rating. Identity theft—not nice, and it can […]

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…EMBRACE IT!!   A crisis—Aghhh! Who of us enjoys problems? Issues? Conflict? We go to great lengths to avoid it and the confusion, loss of control and angst that it brings. Around the Christmas season when friends and family are about to enter our home, we spend enormous amounts of energy putting things in place, the right gifts […]

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We were warned to allow at least two hours to get from Zurich Airport to Watwil. ‘What? According to Google Maps, it should only take an hour,’ we thought. ‘It’s only sixty kilometres—and we’ve got the freeway.’ Did time speed up in Switzerland, perhaps owing to the mini-black hole created by the Large Hadron Collider? […]

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