#WATWB November 2019 Surprised by ‘Life?!’

Image source: ABC News Australia

I remember my first experience of supreme pizzas, back in the day. It was fabulous to get all of those flavoursome toppings on one pizza! (Sorry to those Italian style pizza purists who find such complicated pizzas offensive!)

Later in life I found that blessed thing called seafood paella: lots of kinds of seafood and rice all in one place! Yummo! Washed down with vino, of course!

 

Ah!! Seafood paella.  Image source: https://hispanickitchen.com/recipes/mixed-seafood-paella/ .

I got that same kind of saturated sensation when I encountered this thing on ABC News Australia under the tab ‘life’.

But, let me interrupt the spiel to welcome you to

#WATWB November 2019, where our co-hosts are Damyanti Biswas,

Lizbeth Hartz,
Shilpa Garg,
Peter Nena,
and, myself,  Simon Falk.

Please head on over to their pages.

So, WATWB is all about promoting good news and I found some in that ABC News Tab called ‘life’. Check it out.

I found stories about a coffee seller who left his shop to change a lady’s car tyre.  A ‘substitute child’ who offered a lonely mother a happy Mother’s Day gift was another. 

This one has to be a favourite:

Neighbourhood love

Firefighters have been hard at it battling bushfires across Australia in recent weeks — and some are also there to help their neighbours.

“Our neighbour across the road goes out of his way to help us by mowing our grass for us on a regular basis,” says Terri Maher.

“His wife came over today and mowed our grass because he wasn’t around to do it, whilst he was out burning off in the areas of need.”

– Terri Maher, Coffs Harbour, NSW

Source: ABC News Australia accessed 28 November 2019

 

These are great stories of good news from everyday life in a neighbourhood.

Do you have any stories like this of your own that you can share?

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Simon C.J. Falk 20 June 2017

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