YouTube Shorts @mafoo - Planes

YouTube Shorts @mafoo - Planes

If you are obsessed with watching flying metal tubes land, take off, move, sort of move, or even sit still; then there may be something here for you :) Just lots of videos of me geeking out over one of my obsessions (passions), very large things that fly!

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Still in draft (March 2021)

Still in draft (March 2021)

With multiple used face masks and two very excited little girls, we were escorted off the A350 by officials dressed as astronauts. We were greeted at Sydney’s International Airport by two very excited Grandparents and 14 days in isolation. That’s when it hit me, in 24 hours our life had changed forever. It was awful but it was awful for everyone everywhere!

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Letters to Mum 💜

Letters to Mum 💜

I have felt a sadness I have never experienced before, I have been paralysed by grief and drowning in tears. My heart is heavy and I am lost, I just don’t know what to do. A month has passed and it feels like yesterday, I want to pick up the phone and hear her voice but I know she won't answer.

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Heather Anne Fopp née McDonald (20.08.1951 - 02.07.2022)

Heather Anne Fopp née McDonald (20.08.1951 - 02.07.2022)

💜 It is with great sadness and a very heavy heart, that we announce that Mum (Heather Anne Fopp née McDonald) passed away peacefully on Saturday night (2.7.2022) in North Adelaide 💜

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A New Decade is Approaching

A New Decade is Approaching

I don’t know where this post is coming from or what I am trying to achieve. I’m running on no gas, I’m super tired and scared of what the immediate future holds. I may look ok on the outside but the inside is not dissimilar to a bomb waiting to explode. I know this is all cryptic, it’s not intentionally a cryptic style Facebook post.

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What a week, I'm Shattered!

What a week, I'm Shattered!

So Saturday morning at 0730 we headed to the emergency pediatrician. By this stage, there was quite a bit of yellow gunk coming out of her ear which was all through her hair and over her bed, she was also complaining it was sore. The pediatrician did a swab, put her on a strong course of antibiotics and told us to come back tomorrow.

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Expat Life - When to go home?

Expat Life - When to go home?

We’ve missed so many Christmas’s, birthdays, weddings, arrivals of nephews, anniversaries, saying final goodbyes and the list just goes on. At what point do you go “That’s enough, we need to go home?”, how do you make that decision when you have two 5 year olds…

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Netflix What/If

Netflix What/If

What/If is a neo-noir thriller that explores the ripple effects of what happens when acceptable people start doing unacceptable things. Each season will tackle a different morality tale inspired by culturally consequential source…

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Turning 40 - New House - Zurich

Turning 40 - New House - Zurich

Greencity is still rather grey, although as spring arrives some of the trees are getting leaves and things are getting greener. Maybe with time they’ll plant some lawn. Lol. The apartment is good though and is exactly what we wanted.

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