G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer.
I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.
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Enjoy your music Ivor. No more music for me because right now it’s almost eleven fifteen pm here and after a busy day it’s my bedtime. Catch up tomorrow, goodnight Ivor 😴😴
It’s amazing how helpless I am when my technology goes on the fritz. I seem to forget that I functioned just fine before we had any. I knew how to hold a pen in my hand, I knew how to get thoughts from brain to pen to paper, I knew how to insert pieces of paper into a typewriter, I seemed to survive without being able to get calls while I was grocery shopping, I didn’t need my fridge to tell me when we were out of milk or a gizmo to tell me how long I’d walked. Having said all that, I hope your computer’s up and running soon again.
Hi Gina, oh wow, a sincere thank you ❤️ for all these glorious comments, you make me feel so special. I’m in Ballarat having lunch with my sister, and then off to Melbourne to watch our April sing in an Opera 😊☺️
you have a splendid day, you deserve life’s best, and don’t worry about replying the comments, i have been so happy reading your posts, sorry i took so long getting there. lovely day to you and best wishes to April! she’s stunning!
Oh, my! I hope everything is back to normal soon!
Yep, sometimes we must rely on the “old” ways to get by! 😉 😀
I love how you got a poem out of your dilemma. I got a chuckle out of your pigeon being late. Your poems are always worth waiting on the pigeon to deliver…even a slow pigeon!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend plans, Ivor!
HUGS!!! 🙂
Yep it’s frustrating, maybe a few more days, I’m in Ballarat tonight with my sister, and using her computer, we’ve been to the opera in Melbourne to watch our April sing. She sang beautifully.
Yep it’s frustrating, maybe a few more days, I’m in Ballarat tonight with my sister, and using her computer, we’ve been to the opera in Melbourne to watch our April sing. She sang beautifully.
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 
Hope it all returns to the 21st century soon!
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Hope you get it fixed soon Ivor but love the way you’ve turned your PC dilemma into another poem. Well done, brilliant job 😊
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I’m already missing my lovely music library on my computer, wow, I’ve had to put a CD into my old CD player, yep it’s working 😊😊
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Enjoy your music Ivor. No more music for me because right now it’s almost eleven fifteen pm here and after a busy day it’s my bedtime. Catch up tomorrow, goodnight Ivor 😴😴
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lol nice visual of how you did this post on slate and sent it to WP by carrier pigeon, love this song!
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It’s amazing how helpless I am when my technology goes on the fritz. I seem to forget that I functioned just fine before we had any. I knew how to hold a pen in my hand, I knew how to get thoughts from brain to pen to paper, I knew how to insert pieces of paper into a typewriter, I seemed to survive without being able to get calls while I was grocery shopping, I didn’t need my fridge to tell me when we were out of milk or a gizmo to tell me how long I’d walked. Having said all that, I hope your computer’s up and running soon again.
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pen and paper to the rescue! hope it gets fixed soon as well need our fix of Ivor poetry!
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Hi Gina, oh wow, a sincere thank you ❤️ for all these glorious comments, you make me feel so special. I’m in Ballarat having lunch with my sister, and then off to Melbourne to watch our April sing in an Opera 😊☺️
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you have a splendid day, you deserve life’s best, and don’t worry about replying the comments, i have been so happy reading your posts, sorry i took so long getting there. lovely day to you and best wishes to April! she’s stunning!
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On the way to Melbourne now, I’ll have a story to tell later, 😉I’ll send you a poem from a previous opera trip
https://wp.me/p6B6QE-zS
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Sending repair vibes. Did you try percussive maintenance? Sorry to read Ivor. Hope it gets fixed soon. ♥.
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I’m on my way to the opera now, in Melbourne, to watch my niece April sing. , here’s a poem from one of my other opera trips
https://wp.me/p6B6QE-zS
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Awesome! Thank you Ivor. Enjoy! ♥.
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Loved it!
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As long as you can hear your music I know you will get past this frustration!!!! I hope it is fixed soon, I know you like your community here !!!!!
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Full of admiration at your ability to send the post by ancient methods, I hope you are back to normal soon.
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I’m still using pigeons and slate, could be a few days, I might miss some of your posts 😊
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🙂
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Oh, my! I hope everything is back to normal soon!
Yep, sometimes we must rely on the “old” ways to get by! 😉 😀
I love how you got a poem out of your dilemma. I got a chuckle out of your pigeon being late. Your poems are always worth waiting on the pigeon to deliver…even a slow pigeon!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend plans, Ivor!
HUGS!!! 🙂
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Having a great weekend, thanks Carolyn, the was fabulous. 😊 https://photos.app.goo.gl
/AwUz1p2nyF4ALtET8
My sister Miffy, me, and April
https://photos.app.goo.gl/AwUz1p2nyF4ALtET8
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Oh, I’m so glad you had a wonderful weekend!
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Uh understandable my laptop is also broken
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Yep it’s frustrating, maybe a few more days, I’m in Ballarat tonight with my sister, and using her computer, we’ve been to the opera in Melbourne to watch our April sing. She sang beautifully.
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Oh wow must have been beautiful xx
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I had a wonderful time. I hope these links work for you
My sister Miffy, me, and April
https://photos.app.goo.gl/AwUz1p2nyF4ALtET8
A review of the opera April (Foster) sang in
http://www.stagewhispers.com.au/reviews/abduction
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Really messy ! 😜😄😄🤗🤗
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Yep it’s frustrating, maybe a few more days, I’m in Ballarat tonight with my sister, and using her computer, we’ve been to the opera in Melbourne to watch our April sing. She sang beautifully.
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WoW!!!!!
Chapeau! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
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Oh no!!! That’s terrible! What happened?
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Not sure, my brother seems to think its a hard drive problem he’s having a look tomorrow
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Oh no! Donyou have all your writing backed up on something?
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All my stuff is in a cloud, …somewhere….. and on WP…. so I’ll be ok, and I’m sure my brother can fix it, he,s a whizz with computers xx
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Enjoy your trip. Ballarat is a lovely place. I’m having mbl ph problems – we get so reliant n these things….it becomes an arm extension and necessity
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Another review of the opera April sang in
http://www.stagewhispers.com.au/reviews/abduction
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🙂
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Reading your post one would think you’re frustrated! 😉 So what are you going to do? It would take too long to telegraph your poetry in. 🙂
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Hopefully I’ll be back later in the week, using my little phone is frustrating and hard for me. xx I shall stay patient, hmmm, trying to ….
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