Archive - December 20, 2007
I love Christmas in Australia. It’s so good to be able to wander around in shorts and T-shirts and to enjoy the great outdoors on warm summer evenings.
On Sunday night we’ll be at Sandalford Wines for Carols in the Valley, presented by Swan City Church.
The event organisers do a fantastic job each year. Between seven and eight thousand people have enjoyed themselves on the grassy slopes of the winery for the annual Christmas event over the past couple of years. The venue is just perfect for an outdoor event.
The evening will feature Zoe Kikiros from WA Opera, vocalist Dave Smith, Heaven’s Strings Quartet, Outrage Childrens Entertainment and a fifty voice choir as well as a magnificent fireworks finale. There’s always something wonderful about fireworks close up.
A team of us from 98.5 Sonshine FM will be there to say hello to the assembled masses. I always enjoy being able to meet listeners and to promote the radio station to others who are not yet listeners.
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Most of us aspire to something beyond ‘normal’.
There’s a sense in which normal is equated with average or boring so a lot of the time we shun the idea of being simply normal. Yesterday afternoon I was more than happy to be normal.
A couple of days ago I dropped into a pathology clinic for a blood test. I’m never keen to have sharp metal spikes driven into my arms but I put up with it when necessary. The test was simply to check for a number of things such as cholesterol levels, diabetes and a few other bits and pieces.
I visited my doctor for the results and a check up yesterday afternoon and apart from a cholesterol level which is on the border of being high, everything was ‘normal’. In fact, when the doctor got to my Prostate Specific Antigen test he said it was ‘very normal’. With a history of prostate cancer in my family I was more than pleased to hear that my readings are very good in that area.
Most of the time I want to be more than normal but sometimes normal is the most wonderful word of all.
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