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Dr Susie Walsh
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Varuna Writer's Space Fellowship recipient 2024 (Australia) Non-fiction and Hybrid • Autistic • Non-Binary • Irrepressible • PhD Film Studies • Bushfire Survivor • Volunteer Bush Firefighter (NSW RFS) •

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Rain, hail, or shine - Braidwood Rural Fire Service training this afternoon was slightly on the soggy side but worth practising skills no matter the weather...

#NSWRFS
#Volunteering
Susie, wearing firefighter uniform and helmet. Also wearing an N95 mask. In the background is a RFS truck and another Firefighter. Group of volunteer firefighters refilling the water tank on the truck from a creek.
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Eating Macca's while sitting in the Jeep getting an automatic car wash is peak adulting.

#YoureNotTheBossOfMe
Photo taken from the driver's seat while sitting in an automatic car wash bay. The windscreen is sudsy. A McDonald's takeaway bag is also in shot.
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Went and touched and tasted the ocean today.

Looked good.
Smelt good.
Still a bit too salty tho.
The Pacific Ocean from a beach near Batemans Bay. My white legs. Jeans rolled up and wet sand on my bare feet.
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Trump Pivots To Non-Interventionism...
Trump stands behind the Resolute desk, while others attend to a man who has collapsed on the floor.
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Charles Dickens was the originator of "this meeting could have been an email"...

#BookSky
#BleakHouse
Lady Dedlock looks imperiously at her visitor when the servant has left the room, casting her eyes over him from head to foot. She suffers him to stand by the door and asks him what he wants. "That your ladyship would have the kindness to oblige me with a little conversation," returns Mr. Guppy, embarrassed. "You are, of course, the person who has written me so many letters?" "Several, your ladyship. Several before your ladyship condescended to favour me with an answer." "And could you not take the same means of rendering a Conversation unnecessary? Can you not still?"
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Evie...
Evie, a Bengal cat with green eyes laying down horns (her stabby stabby claws showing) and her tongue sticking out.
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Tomato seeds planted! Seeds saved by my husband from last season's bumper harvest. We've planted late to dodge the frosts...so fingers crossed.
A green plastic seed raising tray filled with soil and tomato seeds.
November 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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From the garden - candy pink roses. They look gorgeous, and smell like soft musk sticks... and hope.

#Gardening
🌱
Small clear glass vase on a timber table filled with candy pink coloured roses.
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Destruction of the East Wing of the WH is this quote:
"They were careless people... they smashed up things & creatures & then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, & let other people clean up the mess they had made."

The Great Gatsby
East Wing of the White House partially destroyed by demolition equipment to make way for a grotesque ballroom.
October 21, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Thousands of lightning strikes have been detected in the past few hours, with more expected.
If you see any unattended fires, report them immediately to Triple Zero (000).
Via NSW RFS
Map of NSW showing large clusters of bright orange and yellow lightning icons.
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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From 2020.

"Discordant"

#Bushfires
#Poetry
#Writing
#WritingCommunity
Tuggeranong ARTS centre "Discordant" The unscathed are boisterously relieved. Their raucous laughter ruptures our grief. Mocking our mourning amidst the burnt land. We've no need for singing dirges they call. We're bloody happy to be alive they call. But we are weary of their unseemly cheer. Our loss is larger than their laughter. We yearn to heal in silent solace. Too soon we sighingly whisper back. Too soon. Susie Walsh SOLASTALGIA POETRY EXHIBITION 10-26 ОСTOBER 2020
October 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize.

#NobelPeacePrize
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Committee says win is ‘for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy’, Source Al Jazeera
October 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Spring is springing.
The garden has been neglected and I've been going through one of the most difficult years of my life - these Blue Bells are just here saying "we're made of strong stuff, and we're beautiful"
#Garden
Blue Bells.
October 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Evie throwing horns...
Evie a Bengal cat with one eye closed, her tongue sticking out, and a paw with claws... she's definitely throwing horns.
September 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Also, am in love with Evie.
Evie, a Bengal cat with green eyes, laying on her throne - an emerald green footstool.
September 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Three weeks later...
Evie has settled in well and truly. Snoring and feeling safe.
She has become wonderful company and a comfort (when she's not "stabby stabby" with her claws!). Loves her own space but happy to hang out with me when her schedule is free.
Big change for me, first time cat parent...
Evie an older Bengal cat. Sleeping contentedly on a green blanket on the lounge.
September 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Autistic and over 50?

Share an example of your "full blown Autism"...

#AutisticJoy
#Autism
Wearing my NSW RFS Uniform and joyfully swinging on a swing.
September 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Passed the NSW RFS Navigation course today. That's the 2nd of 4 Advanced Firefighter modules done!

Lots of maths, and walking... but I didn't get lost.

Feet and brain a bit sore tho.

Also, made a little meme...
Cover of the NSW RFS Navigation Workbook. Two RFS members standing in a paddock reading a map. Photo of IKEA. Text reads: I'm ready for the world's greatest navigational challenge...
September 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Melbourne - Last Day...
When you get up early to recreate the Audrey Hepburn "Breakfast at Tiffany's" scene... but you've only had one cigarette and your cup of tea has gone cold...
#NailedIt
#BreakfastAtTiffanys
#GirlsWeekend 💗
#YOLO
#Melbourne
Susie, dressed in pyjamas, wearing a woollen beanie and Ugg boots, and fingerless gloves. Eating a donut, holding a takeaway coffee cup. Looking wistfully in the window of Tiffany's in Melbourne. Same outfit, looking to camera with a grumpy demeanor. Susie, dressed in pyjamas, wearing a woollen beanie and Ugg boots, and fingerless gloves. Eating a donut, holding a takeaway coffee cup. Out the front of Tiffany's in Melbourne.
September 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Melbourne - Day 3.
What A Day!
-Tiffany's for something special.
- Mugged by a Seagull at Fed Square. It made off with my salmon sushi roll!
- ACMI exhibition "Count Down...Count Down...Count Dowwwwwn" #GenX
- Saw the most extraordinary production of Othello (stunning, no notes). #GirlsWeekend
Dancing in front of the "Count Down" sign at the ACMI exhibition in Melbourne.
September 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Melbourne - Day 3.
Pre-Breakfast Breakfast.
#YoureNotTheBossOfMe
#GirlsWeekend
#Melbourne
A box of Maltesers resting on my lap. They're leftovers from the "Annie" show last night.
September 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Melbourne - Day 2.
These pics were taken one hour apart...
#YOLO
#AnnieTheMusical
#MaxWatts
#Hectic
#GirlsWeekend
#Melbourne
Outside the Princess Theatre, Melbourne. Went and saw "Annie The Musical". I'm dressed in a light blue jumper and colourful purple scarf. An hour later, back at the motel room getting ready to meet up with my nephew who is at the Ill Nino concert at Max Watts. I'm wearing a black Joy Division T-shirt and a black beanie with "Verona Lights" band name on it. Sticking my tongue out and throwing horns.
September 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Melbourne - Day 1.
Absolute cracker of a day. Arrived after 1pm and made the most of every minute!
#GirlsWeekend
#Melbourne
Susie standing outside the National Gallery of Victoria in front of the French Impressionism exhibition sign. Wearing a Joy Division T-shirt. Caption beneath reads "When You're Punk And Also A Hopeless Romantic".
September 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I'm a cat person now...long story...but say hello to "Evie" 13yo Bengal who came seeking indoor shelter two nights ago - confirmed with vet she is homeless... currently snoring on the lounge...
A Bengal cat with "tiger stripes", wearing a soft collar and harness, sleeping at the end of the lounge. Close up of "Evie" she has green eyes.
September 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Spent the weekend doing the NSW RFS Wildfire Behaviour course (1 of 4 courses that make up the Advanced Firefighter qualification). I passed! One down 3 to go!

#Volunteering
#NSWRFS
Cover of the NSW RFS Wildfire Behaviour Manual. Blue text box added that reads "Passed". Also has my first name and the date 31 August 2025
August 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM