Susanna Duffy

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Talk about a long romance!

My love affair with the Web began in the Southern Spring of 1997. Our romance is still hot!

When I can be dragged away from my computer I'm a Funeral Celebrant, produce a syndicated talkback radio programme, direct and perform in community theatrical productions and blog a lot. The rest of the time I run a small business from home, Virtual P.A.

I enjoy the company of animals and grandchildren, traditional Irish music and walking along the river each evening.

In squidoo I am No Angel

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Please allow me to show you the lenses I have so thoroughly enjoyed creating..

My hometown, Melbourne 

I live in Melbourne, an immensely livable city with two rivers running through to the beautiful Port Phillip Bay a huge shallow body of water with an extremely dangerous entrance to its placid waters.

One river is the Maribyrnong, the name is said to be from 'Mirring-gnai-birr-nong' - 'I can hear a ringtail possum'. You can still hear the ringtail possums along the Maribyrnong, they're incredibly noisy creatures.

The other river is the Yarra, once called Birrarung in the Woiwurrung language meaning 'The River of Mists'.

The word, Yarra Yarra, just means "waterfall" or "flow", and is descriptive of any river or creek in the area. The early European settlers misunderstood what the Aboriginal people were telling them. Perhaps the noise of the local possums deafened them.

Melbourne, on the Bay 

Living on the Merri 

I live alongside the Merri Creek in Clifton Hill, on a jointed basalt column formed by cooling lava, just where the creek meets the Yarra River. A few steps out my back door and I'm on the creek, looking over to where the creek tumbles into the river. It's very hard to be depressed when you live in a spot like this.

The Aboriginal name is Merri Merri meaning "very rocky" and rocky it certainly is! The back of my house overlooks the area where the Wurundjeri people held their large gatherings - the location for one of the earliest land treaties in Australia between Indigenous Australians and Europeans.

My great grandmother, Mary Humphries, was the first white child born here.

I knew her well, she lived a long life and I spent a lot of time with her. She told me wonderful stories about the early days of her childhood and of her father, a miner from Ballarat.

After the Eureka Rebellion he came down to Melbourne and was one of the quarry workers who achieved the Eight Hour day in 1856.



You can see by the photo how the 13 long years of drought have affected the creek. Yes, that's Melbourne on the close horizon, I'm within walking distance of the CBD.

"Looking out my Back Door"

 

I have the best of two worlds, the capital city is just the kick of a football away (an Aussie Rules torpedo punt) and the creek is home to echidnas, kookaburras, black cockatoos, rakali (native water rats), diving egrets (there must be plenty of fish in there) tawny frogmouths, lots and lots of flying foxes and a thriving population of possums!

Every evening, just on dusk, the fruitbats come up in a rustling cloud from the other side of the river, pause to nibble a little on my quince tree or bush lemons, then continue to fly northwest to some unknown fruitbat destination. I love to see them. They mark the end of the day, every day.

Australian Lensography 

My Companion 

Vladimir's Blog 

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My current favourite 

Treat yourself to a Roman Meal

Salvete! I really enjoyed making this!

What's in my Top Ten? 

The list changes daily

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Arthur, Lensography of the Once and Future King 

I've loved the story of Arthur all of my life.

In My Kitchen - Lensography of Wine and Dine 

I just love to cook and I love eating even more. In this lensography I have listed the classic roast collection, the classic casseroles, various features on fruits including exotic tropical varieties, honey, cheese, olives, yoghurt and plenty more.

On the Menu at Cafe Porridge 

My foodie blog

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Fantasy and Fairy 

I am a Woman of a "Certain Age"! 

Mind over Menopause Blog 

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My Groups 

I'm happy to be the Team Leader of seven groups ...
(If you write on these subjects, you're more than welcome to submit your lens)
Wander Downunder
All the delights of Downunder, food, places, wildlife, celebrities, the bold, bizarre and beautiful. Antipodean activities from down under, anything and everything Australian.
Epicure
A collection of lenses for culinary adventures. Inspiration for gourmet menus, drinks, entertaining advice and recipes for breakfast, luncheon, dinner and beautiful banquets for discerning palates.
All About Arthur
For everything related to the Legend of Arthur
Goddess Group
The Goddess Group, for everything related to the Goddess, in all of her names, all of her faces and all of her aspects.
Bookworms
A Group of people who read and recommend their favourite authors, books and lists for other people who like to read.
Legends and Lore
World mythology, ancient beliefs, tall tales and true, folklore, fairy, fable and the lost and forgotten stories from our legendary past
Feline Friends : Our Cat Companions
Fabulous Felines to the Fortunate, featuring the furballs who deign to share our homes with us.

I love trains 

During the 1930s Depression, Railways Victoria was the largest employer of men in the State. One of them was my father, a man who genuinely loved locomotives. And so do I.

Love is in the air ....... 

A Second Life of my very own ....... 

Second Life Blog 

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What's on my Bookshelf 

I love mythology! 

This lensography is getting very long!

I've broken up some of it into smaller pieces for easier digesting and, instead of giving you long lists of lenses, offer a few lensographies.

Mythology 

Mythology is very real in my life. My Great Aunt Nell gave me Bullfinch : The Age of Fable for my 9th birthday and I hurried home from school every day for weeks to finish reading it all before Mum called me to set the table for tea.

Those fantastical stories of fabulous gods and fearsome monsters stirred my imagination and summoned me to discover more. Bullfinch also blessed me with a deep love of beautiful language, a love which still thrills me today.

Years later, when I began to study Behavioural Sciences, I discovered Jung.

Myths are public dreams. Dreams are private myths : Joseph Campbell


Jung constructed his concepts linking the world of outer events and the inner realm of fantasies, dreams, and symbols - symbols which appear again and again throughout history in mythology, religion, fairy tales, alchemical texts, and other forms of creative expression.

The source, he said, of this symbolic material was the collective unconscious, a pool of experience accessible to all humans through history.

So when I first found Joseph Campbell I swooned! The journey of the hero is the one we all make, and I make mine accompanied by the faces of the Goddess I found in Bullfinch.

Mythology of Skandinavia 

I was getting a lot of these - and I didn't want my personal lensography to be so long - so I put them into a lensography of their own

A Mixed Bag of Mythology 

Stories of the Ancients 

 

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G'day there, leave me a comment 

BevsPaper wrote...

Great lens!

ReplyPosted June 30, 2009

annetteghallowell wrote...

After seeing your photo at Rocket Moms I just had to come here to get to know you! I thoroughly enjoyed my visit and plan to visit more of your lenses too!

ReplyPosted June 09, 2009

Tuula_Olin wrote...

Hi there fellow Australian! Haven't seen many here yet, but I am quite new with Squidoo.
This is a great lens and how you've done many lenses about Skandinavian mythology. I come from Finland and I have a lens about my journey from Finland to Australia if you like to read.
Great to meet you,
Tuula

ReplyPosted June 07, 2009

Ramkitten wrote...

I enjoyed this and learned some things I didn't know about you. Just wandering around Squidoo this evening and thought to myself, I'm gonna drop by Susanna's place to see what I've missed.

ReplyPosted May 25, 2009

Sojourn wrote...

You are an amazing woman, Susanna, with great style and a wonderful cat who forced me to come find this lens to learn more about you. Beautiful collection. :)

ReplyPosted May 01, 2009

 
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Susanna's updates 

Lysistrata Lives

I just couldn't resist this one, ladies …. A Kenyan man is suing the organisers of a politically motivated sex ban for causing him "anxiety and sleepless nights". James Kimondo is seeking damage...

Jun 29, 2009 @ 12:27 am rss

Waiting for News of Groups

Still waiting for news about the Groups. If I remember correctly, 100 groups will be chosen from the whole heap of them to be given new tools. Anything, anything at all, would do to make those groups...

Jun 13, 2009 @ 5:59 am rss

My Cat is going for Giant

Not content with blogging and the occasional foray into facebook, my old cat has taken to squidoo with a ferocity unseen since his younger days (before the surgical snip). He's made a few lenses but r...

Jun 13, 2009 @ 5:45 am rss

Greek Lamb Stew

Toss 800g diced lamb leg in tablespoon plain flour to and coat well. In heavy based pan, heat some oil add onion garlic, brown, add lamb, brown. Add 2 cups chicken stock, 1 cup white wine - bring to...

May 25, 2009 @ 7:16 pm rss

That Purple Star!

I've been so flat out with Angel duties that I forgot to mention my Purple Star. Perhaps it's best if I keep quiet about it, there's been a lot of grumbling about the purple stars in the forums and it...

May 11, 2009 @ 1:13 am rss

A day of Paint

The wall, in the beginning. Time for the Painter's morning cuppa The wall is finally underway! Everything is becoming suddenly more real. I want to take the dustcovers off the chairs and bring in fl...

May 10, 2009 @ 5:26 am rss

Brunch at the Quince

I happily left my own Cafe Porridge in the hands of The Painter this morning and strolled around the block to Cafe Quince for Brunch. (43-45 Spensley St, just around the corner from Cafe Porridge - y...

May 10, 2009 @ 1:45 am rss

 

10% of my income goes to continue the work of Fred Hollows in treating avoidable blindness and improving indigenous health.

Photo : Khim Rath, who can now see after a successful cataract operation, Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia.

Blindness is a significant public health issue in Cambodia. Over 160,000 people are blind and an additional 20,000 become blind each year. The main cause of blindness is cataract, which can be treated by a simple 15 minute operation at an average cost of $25 (AUD$35).

Thanks for dropping by ...... 

Thanks very much for dropping by to read my lensography. You're more than welcome to leave a note in the guest book above and, if you're a member of Squidoo, you can also rate this lens :)

It's all much appreciated, Susanna

For more pages like this, my lens collection is at Susanna's Lensography

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