Lilly Rayman's Blog, page 6

Building Love with the Sydney Telethon

  We live on a property in rural New South Wales, Australia.  We have to drive 45 mins, to the main hospital 50kms away.  On May 9 2014, our eldest daughter was diagnosed with cancer.  Retinoblastoma to be precise.  I'll discuss this more another time.  But what I will discuss now is the need we had to travel to Sydney, a 6 hour drive away, for our DD who was 18 months old at the time; to have her diagnosis confirmed, and when it was; for her treatment to begin.  It meant staying in Sydney.  

Grass Patch - where the hell is it?

  It was with some serious nervousness that I stepped off the plane at Perth and onto a bus to Esperance. I had a nine hour journey by road to wonder at what I was doing or rather be expected to do.   I had secured a job with a family of four young children on a cropping farm in WA. I was going to be the nanny. What the hell was I thinking? Me? A nanny? That would be my sisters forte not mine, she is qualified in child care, me I'm just an administrator with a dream and a sense of adventure.  

Lest We Forget

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them."  - Laurence Binyon   ANZAC Day - 25th April   What is ANZAC?   ANZAC is stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps   25th April 1915 was the start of the first campaign that led to major casualties for the Australian and New Zealand armed forces.  That campaign was an eight month stalemate in Gallipoli where the

How a Pomm came to Aus

I remember when I was 14. I was asked "What do you want to do when you are older?" After a moments thought I said "I want to chase cattle across the Australian outback." It was rarely thought of again as a goal, but more of a dream of escape from the dull monotonous life I found myself living after I left school. There is only so much excitement to be gained from the life of a qualified administrator. It would be ten years before I found my dream to be a tangible possibility. To which I can

How a Pommie came to Aussie

I remember when I was 14. I was asked "What do you want to do when you are older?" After a moments thought I said "I want to chase cattle across the Australian outback." It was rarely thought of again as a goal, but more of a dream of escape from the dull monotonous life I found myself living after I left school. There is only so much excitement to be gained from the life of a qualified administrator. It would be ten years before I found my dream to be a tangible possibility. To which I can

Wild Encounters at Australia Zoo

     Doing the 'tourist thing' at Australia Zoo, Qld before heading off to the Outback training program, Oct 2008.  

Local Support

I had the pleasure of meeting a wonderful and inspiring woman this last week.

A local artist who is working hard to raise funds for Parkinson's this month.

But whilst she is trying to raise awareness of this condition, she was more than happy to try and raise awareness for myself and my own published work with An Unexpected Bonding.

Why not pop on over to the website, check out her work, charity fundraising...oh and An Unexpected Bonding!

http://www.monkeyicentipedegallery.com

London Book Fair April 2015

I'm excited, now we are in April, we are closer to the London Book Fair. April 14th - 16th.

An Unexpected Bonding will be on the Inspiring Publishers stall at the fair!

Here's hoping it will meet with some promising interest.

New Edition

A new edition has been added to our household!

A new baby!

Our second daughter was born on the 6th March, and we are all loving our new bundle of joy already!