Welcome to ‘Gaelyne’s Sanctuary’. If you’ve visited in the past (welcome back!) you probably noticed I’ve given my site a new name and look. I’ve spent several months working on this revamp – mostly trying to find the time to work on it. I chose the name ‘sanctuary’ because I found working on it has given me a sense of peace while the rest of my world seems to be falling apart. My husband was fighting lung cancer, so life was a little crazy then. It’s a place where I can come and make one small corner of the world a little brighter.
I have a variety of interests but they boil down to cooking, writing, taking photos and playing Bingo on Facebook. I hope you enjoy your visit and feel free to talk to me in comments or on the contact page.
What's in my Sanctuary?
My Blog
I had a few off-site blogs before deciding to have a blog on my own site. I don't blog very often, but when I have something I want to share, I'll write about it. The topics range from general, fitness, cancer, diabetes, vaping and maybe a rant here and there.
Recipes
I love cooking, sharing recipes and enjoying myself in the kitchen. Most are recipes I wanted to share with my kids or have available so I wouldn't lose them. I don't do fancy stuff, but I like challenging myself with learning to cook something I've never made before.
Photos
I enjoy taking photos with my camera and have a few projects I do such as Photo of the Day, and 12 of 12 days and a group on Flickr and Facebook called Challenge Friday. If I happen to cook something I'm pleased with, I'll often take a photo of it for my pic of the day. Mostly the photos I take are snapshots of my life, which is pretty mundane, I think. But my world is different from what my family in the USA experiences so sharing seems a nice thing to do.
What's New?
Highlights for 02-27 May 2019
Finally, the rain has come! Thursday, May 02, 2019 We’ve been needing rain for months now and last night and today we finally have had
Highlights for 22 April – 28 April 2019
This was a weird week because Monday was a public holiday – Easter Monday – and Thursday was also a public holiday – Anzac Day.
Highlights for 14 April – 22 April 2019
I’ve had an interesting week… Sunday, April 14, 2019 This past week had some super wonderful highs, some majors lows and lots of in-between. As
Highlights for the Week of 31 March – 7th April 2019
Sunday Beach Highlight Sunday, March 31, 2019 I had a lovely walk by the beach this evening, and I’m not sure what magic made it
Highlights for the Week of 26-29 March 2019
It’s here! Tuesday, March 26, 2019 My new rowing machine is here and man is big. I love it – and even learned how to
Highlights for the Week of 18-24th March 2019
Monday, March 18, 2019 I have an old rowing machine and I’ve been working at using it more but it has issues. (Like you come
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Roof Restoration
Last year I had a roof leak repaired and they showed me photos of work that needed done on the roof. It took quite a
Photo a Day 2020
These photos are 2020 my Photo a Day selections. I try to take photos on most days, even if it’s just what I made for
Photo a Day 2019
These photos are my Photo a Day 2019 selections. I don’t take pics everyday, but I try to on most days, even if it’s pretty
Photo a Day 2018
These photos are my Photo a Day 2018 selections. I don’t take pics everyday, but I try to on most days, even if it’s pretty
Challenge Friday
I’ve joined another photo group, where a challenge word is given on Fridays and we have a week to take photos that represent our interpretations
Random Instagram Pics
My Facebook Fitness Page
30Nov20 This photo arrived in a card from my sister. That’s me with a toy wooden bunny my brother made for me in his woodshop class. #throwbackpic #circa1964 #muchlatergram #2020pad
30Nov20 I got a card in the mail from my sister for Thanksgiving. It included this photo of my oldest son, my Mom and I. My second born was making a bit of a cameo as I was expecting at the time. #throwbackpic #summer1987 #muchlatergram #2020pad
01Dec20 Trip to the Apple store in the city. Nearly noon and the city is deserted. What a weird experience. #2020pad #muchlatergram #adelaidecbd
08Nov20 This is turning into a regular item here on Sundays . Macaroni and Cheese with Prawns and Old Bay Seasoning. The combo is just so… excellent. I had plenty of of the macaroni cheese leftover for the next day’s lunch but those prawns … they were all mine! #2020pad #sundayprawns #cookingforone #muchlatergram #cooking
09Dec20 Getting ready to attend the (social distanced) computer club Christmas Dinner I found and wore my name pin. Being a life member means quite a bit to me. #muchlatergram #lifememeber #computerclub
29Nov20 I filled my rings! This is an Apple watch screen. I managed to exercise (the middle ring), meet my ‘stand’ requirements and burned enough calories to make the ring complete. It’s not as exciting as the animations from the Fitbit when I met my step goal, but there are medals and things so that’s nice too. #muchlatergram #2020pad #applewatchringscomplete
13Nov20 I completed a particularly hard session of rowing, doing the LYR Calories 3 workout. What kept me going was the little text in the very top corner of my old LG V20 phone … my motto … “Just Keep Moving”. #concept2rower #rowing #darkhorserowing #homegymlife #keepmoving #justkeepmoving #2020pad #lgv20 #ergzone #polaroh1
13Nov20 So, my gym ‘advisor’ decided once I was finished rowing she’d check out what else what happening. #catsofinstagram #homegymlife #muchlatergram #rowing #darkhorserowing #keepmoving
16Nov20 I found my favourite background that I used way back when I had an iPhone 4. It still makes a great background now! This is my camera and photos page. #oldbackground #newbackground #lovemyphone #muchlatergram #2020pad
12Dec20 My only 12of12 pic for the month because taking pics wasn’t really very easy to do with one hand and a new phone. I was told to keep my arm up in a sling for the first few days as well. #latergram #2020pad #12of12 #carpaltunnelsurgery
03Jan21 Gee this turned out nice. It’s Prawn Scampi with rice and It could have been a disaster, but I bumbled my way through and saved it. The recipe called for Jasmine rice - I used Basmati. It wanted frozen jumbo prawns with the shell on. I used what I had - frozen medium sized prawns, already peeled. So after following the recipe, I found the prawns were perfect inside the bowl (I cooked them in my Corning Ware dish), but the rice was still uncooked sitting in a lovely smelling broth of...
20Nov20 Row along with John. My new 3D Printed tablet holder for the rower arrived earlier in the week so I was keen to give it a try. It worked great. My rowing? Not so great! Still all good work and worth the time doing it. #muchlatergram #rowing #darkhorserowing #homegymlife #keepmoving #2020pad
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