Dear HoneyBlossom:

You are welcome, I am fine, thank you. I was thinking about you the other day regarding the record high summer temperatures in Europe and in the U.S. (summer where I am at has been mild-moderate so far), I was thinking that it is winter in Australia, so you are not suffering from the heat. In regard to moving to Melbourne, I think that climate change should be a big consideration, maybe the biggest.

“I will need to be prepared to live in a very tiny space“- how do you feel about living in a very tiny space, do you have experience with it?

It will be less costly to use air conditioning in a very tiny space. Are you using AC in your home during the summer and how different are the summer temperatures between Melbourne and where you currently live?

“Most of my life, I believed that I would enter into a happy relationship and share my life with somebody. Realistically that just isn’t going to happen for me” -it will not happen for lots and lots of married women who strongly believe that a happy relationship isn’t going to happen for them.

“I will turn 63 this year.  In my way, I’m also happy – or perhaps relieved is more accurate to be on my own“- focus on being 10 years younger than 73 (!) and focus, will you, on the relief and happiness that you are experiencing from time to time.

“I think I rushed into most relationships I had“- you may still enter a relationship sometime in the next few years, and you’ll be going much slower about it this time.

“I was happy with the result when I went to hairdresser – hoping to never dye my hair again.  Embracing the grey“- you are encouraging me to embrace my grey.

“So glad our govt was voted out at the last election this year.  The new PM and ministers are so much better.  I’m not sure they can make a big difference about the financial situation at the moment  but they aren’t as heartless and self-serving as the last lot“-

– congratulations for voting in a better government. I read today (Tuesday 10:40 am here, U.S, Wednesday 3:40 am in Australia): “CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament sat on Tuesday for the first time since May elections with the new prime minister determined to have a greenhouse gas reduction target enshrined in law. Legislation that would force Australia to reduce its emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade will be introduced Wednesday into the House of Representatives… The Greens want Australia to slash its emissions by 75% by 2030. The conservative coalition that ruled for nine years until the May 21 election won’t budget from its 2015 Paris commitment to reduce emissions by between 26% and 28%”.

I opened and closed this post with the issue of climate change. Glad to read that your doggies are doing well and that your life is very quiet. Keep safe and well yourself!

anita