On The Run …

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Lol, you’ll have to look down the bottom for picture I tried to post here. I tried twice, there are two pics.

Not that I’m really running or even jogging. Though at times I’m up for an elderly heavy-footed jog up the corridor, this is a one-fingered jog over my mobile’s key pad.

In other words, I have no time for regular posts. No time for fiction, construction or even a slightly fictionalized cat story. This is an update on what’s going on in my life.

Next May the rent where I’m living is set go astronomical, $700 AUD per week! I decided no way can I afford that.

So I’m in the process of buying a place in a retirement village. Two meetings already with management, and half a dozen phone calls to secure my unit. Today I am going there to sign the contract and pay what they call a ‘soft’ deposit.

I laughed about that. Two weeks rent at the present rates! But I guess they know that people not working in the money economy have their money tied up in banks and super annuation schemes.

My house when I still lived in NSW
View from unit where I live now
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Writing is what I do. What I think about. What I meditate on. What I dream up. Listen to. Imagine. Sometimes I sleep. Sometimes I eat. And I walk. Pull out environmental weeds. There are a thousand more things I do, though writing comes into a fair few of those things too.

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3 thoughts on “On The Run …”

  1. All the best, Rita. I am counting every penny too. I pay rent too, but luckily my landlord is my sister. She has moved to a retirement village, but it operates so that she has a lease on the unit and doesn’t own it as such. Still, repairs and other services are included for a monthly charge. Some services are free.
    I am still working but managed to get a slight upgrade recently, but I don’t think it is official yet. A huge amount of paperwork was involved.
    A very belated Happy New Year.
    Aileen Wood.

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  2. That rent is pretty high. I live in NSW and my rent has gone up twice since I’ve been living in my unit since 2021. If I wasn’t on a lease right now, I think my landlord would probably raise the rent again as the units around me cost more, despite being the same size and layout. I won’t be surprised if it happens again around the time my lease expires/gets renewed.

    The view from your unit looks really nice. You took a great picture. I hope it all works out for you.

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