Where has Helen Been? Having a holiday in hospital!

Just a quick note to all my friends.'I haven't been in touch lately as I have spent most of my time, since March, in hospital. My body had become a well, retaining water better than many farm dams!I am home now and sadly observing all my new weeds. Back to gardening it seems.So it will take me a while to catch up but I have started.Now I received a little joke for we women. Hopefully men get a laugh too.

Temporarily off the Air

Finally a week of blue skies and good weather. Tassie is way down under, not too far as the albatross flies, from the Antarctic. So yesterday it was 40 Celcius. Unheard of but true. So what have we done over the holidays. Prepared and commenced moving into our new house. Now I am exhausted again. BUT it feels great to stop paying rent.Unfortunately I will be off the air from somewhere around the 5 Jan to 16 Jan while our Telco hooks up our new phone. I might even have to advance into this new c

Twitter to the Rescue

Social Media has many proponents and opponents. I myself are of two minds about it. I can however see how it helps us with our websites.But last night a raging fire burnt through the bush town of Rappville in northern NSW. One older couple thought their steel shed would be a better bet than their home. I don't know what their home was built of but I do know Rappville very well. So I assume it was weatherboard.If their shed idea had been better thought out I think they would have fled. Imagine h

Smoke Over the Water

I would just like to let everyone know that we have spent the last few days in a smoky fugue.By tomorrow, we might have to evacuate. Fortunately friends have offered us a place to stay.Why. We have a large bush fire to the west of us. And we have a weather inclusion. This is phenomena where a layer of air holds, in our case, the smoke down low. Well it certainly meant our environs were a bit on the nose!This photo was taken 5 days ago. The next day, the view looked like this early morning. By

Merry Christmas to Those Who Celebrate it

Merry Christmas to all my friends who do celebrate this holiday. This season is pretty busy here, both with us and nature.Here is one of our little visitors. We had about 6 wallaby mums visiting this year. This little one is one of the few still in the pouch.And here is an Australia Christmas carol for you. (Please note the ending is promotional but I couldn't find a 'clean' copy.https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Aussie+Jingle+Bells+you...

How can You Prove What You are Saying?

Well, in our articles, for Wealthy Affiliate, our websites, social media and what not, this is often impossible to do. My first example here is Wealthy Affiliate. First of all let me say I am rapt with Wealthy Affiliate as I am sure most of you are. But the big but is; how many say Wealthy Affiliate is the world’s number 1 affiliate Marketing platform. OK I think it is great and is certainly up there in the top contenders. On the other hand, I can’t begin to guess at how many ot

Keywords - They are Just Words!

Too many people are angst about keywords. Often I see Wealthy Affiliate members asking questions that indicate they are in a bit of a panic about them.Well here are my words and hopefully you will become more comfortable after reading them. If you have any questions arising from this article please let me know.I don’t actually focus on keywords. Something that amazes me is how many people think a keyword is a magic thing. Well in fact it, or they, are really only ordinary words. So you wi

The Fine art of GDPRing a Privacy Policy

Okeydokey folks, I have just titivated my Privacy Policy to suit (I hope) these confounded changes. It's probably a great idea I did that anyway as I noted quite a few other changes necessary. In the confusion of getting this page done at the beginning of bootcamp I neglected to change certain words. Words such as going from we to I, our to my etc. After all I am not a two person website nor a company. Well I used Kyle's template, changed all that and modified it to suit me. (Oh and my site.)I

A Compelling Cause to Write a WA blog

Well, I was always going to work on my Wealthy Affiliate stuff today; like I do most days.But today I was forced to.Last night we had a ferocious storm. Lightning and Thunder - a really rare treat in Tasmania. Accompanying this we had wild wind and heavy rain. When I looked up the news on my computer, it showed cars floating down the main streets of Hobart. The worst storm in a very long time.Fortunately we didn't lose power down south. We did lose some TV as the lightning blew up one of our to

The Great Procrastination

Yesterday I was researching for a new post. What I found was a great video on procrastination. Now being one of the great procrastinators, I watched this and it is one of the best presented videos I have seen.Now I found this within the website of a fellow WA member. His call sign is BNakedScam.Apparently we are all procrastinators to some extent. In my case this is true. Sometimes I can not, for the life of me, start or finish something. Generally I can overcome this but I am sure, having watc