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Barbara Frances 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Auckland with Mum and John who followed a few years later and stayed too.</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/convent-girls-out-and-about-was-a-fave-with-the-crowd-a-very-happy-mardi-gras.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Convent girls OUT and about was a fave with the crowd. 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Absent: Chris and John.
A fire  in 1974 destroyed our home,  so photos are rare. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/img_1994.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img_1994</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-12-02T01:01:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2016/08/15/come-over-to-the-window-my-little-darling/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bc160d3973d84709ee8175ed4837e2e1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bc160d3973d84709ee8175ed4837e2e1</image:title><image:caption>Midget Farrelly, 1944-2016.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tumblr_n9rpgxbs7s1rtynt1o5_12801.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tumblr_n9rpgxbS7s1rtynt1o5_1280</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/marianne.jpg</image:loc><image:title>marianne</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/rioec8e0138i2_768x432.jpg</image:loc><image:title>RIOEC8E0138I2_768x432</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/img_27802.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_2780</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/img_27801.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_2780</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/dafne_schippers_zurich_2014.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dafne_Schippers_Zurich_2014</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-08-24T01:30:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2016/08/04/rhymes-and-reasons/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tumblr_n9rpgxbs7s1rtynt1o5_1280.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tumblr_n9rpgxbS7s1rtynt1o5_1280</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/mariner_won.jpg</image:loc><image:title>mariner_won</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/img_2780.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_2780</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/mariner_watersnakes.jpg</image:loc><image:title>mariner_watersnakes</image:title><image:caption>Sea snakes 'blue, glossy green and velvet black' — he blessed them unawares.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/waitomo-glowworm-caves-11.jpg</image:loc><image:title>waitomo-glowworm-caves-11</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-07-05T08:33:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2016/07/31/an-exchange/</loc><lastmod>2016-08-05T01:46:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/about-3/</loc><lastmod>2016-04-15T02:39:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2016/04/14/another-april-death-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/10671469_10206418132312381_5125567339451082931_n.jpg</image:loc><image:title>10671469_10206418132312381_5125567339451082931_n</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/memorial51.jpg</image:loc><image:title>memorial51</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/image-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image-1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/elis-and-rhys-kissing.jpg</image:loc><image:title>elis and rhys kissing</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-04-09T09:02:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2016/04/06/the-silence-of-the-possums/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/imgp2811.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>IMGP2811</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/emapoyy0004.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Sugar Glider</image:title><image:caption>emapoYY0004&lt;br /&gt;Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps) - The Sugar Glider is one of the most common small mammals in the forests of eastern Australia but is rarely seen because it is nocturnal and leaves in the tree-tops. It uses tree-hollows that form in big, old eucalypts. &lt;br /&gt;© Elizabeth Tasker / Wildlife Images</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/baby-birds-currarong.jpg</image:loc><image:title>baby birds currarong</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/anne-broosbank-and-bob-ellis-at-palmie.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Anne broosbank and Bob Ellis at Palmie</image:title><image:caption>Writer Anne Brooksbank and Bob Ellis at Palmie. Together 40 years.  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sex abuse</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/pell-swearing-on-bible.png</image:loc><image:title>pell swearing on bible</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-03-05T21:36:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2016/01/21/and-the-stars-look-very-different-today/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/31039640-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>31039640-1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/n-lao-tzu-large570.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Portrait of Lao-Tzu</image:title><image:caption>Portrait of Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher from the 6th century BC, drawing by Sesshu Toyo (1420-1506). </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/images.jpg</image:loc><image:title>images</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_1322.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1322</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_1316.png</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1316</image:title><image:caption>The Rockpool, Currarong.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_1315.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1315</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_1314.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1314</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_0999.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0999</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bowie-master675.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bowie-master675</image:title><image:caption>David Bowie (1947-2016).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2016-01-24T23:04:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2015/09/26/a-near-death-experience/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image-1.png</image:loc><image:title>Image-1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/abbott-moir.jpg</image:loc><image:title>abbott-moir</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/pietrowathome.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pietrowathome</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/287431-1983-in-pictures.jpg</image:loc><image:title>287431-1983-in-pictures</image:title><image:caption>PM Bob Hawke at the Royal Perth Yacht Club.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/petrov-day-260983.gif</image:loc><image:title>petrov-day-260983</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/244048-7fcd38a2-ffa1-11e4-abd8-e4ec9e966762.jpg</image:loc><image:title>244048-7fcd38a2-ffa1-11e4-abd8-e4ec9e966762</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/oliversacks-blog.png</image:loc><image:title>oliversacks blog</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-11-22T00:10:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2015/08/07/ive-looked-at-clouds-that-way/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/malaysia-mh370_3393055b.jpg</image:loc><image:title>malaysia-mh370_3393055b</image:title><image:caption>The actual missing jet, one of only a few photographs.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/6647642-3x2-940x627.jpg</image:loc><image:title>6647642-3x2-940x627</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/pictograph-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pictograph-1</image:title><image:caption>4,000 year-old pictographs at Horseshoe Canyon in Utah.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-08-14T01:45:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2015/01/25/unhappy-australia-day/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/56311040_ph_crop-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>56311040_PH_crop-1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/sontaran.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Sontaran</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/rip-bhf.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rip bhf</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-01-26T03:59:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2015/01/05/new-year-old-tricks/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/lakeeyrefan_tm5_2009129.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lakeeyrefan_tm5_2009129</image:title><image:caption>Is your glass half full, or half empty? . . . Lake Eyre, NASA photo.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-06T23:15:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/12/20/hurry-last-days/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/webster-packaging-services1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Webster-Packaging-Services</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/webster-packaging-services.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Webster-Packaging-Services</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/401923_397477760289205_1966146324_n.jpg</image:loc><image:title>401923_397477760289205_1966146324_n</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/07entmears0-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>:Author Gillian Mears</image:title><image:caption>Author Gillian Mears . . . a haunting voice.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/screen-shot-2014-12-20-at-5-54-18-pm.png</image:loc><image:title>Screen shot 2014-12-20 at 5.54.18 PM</image:title><image:caption>Margaret Olley . . . painter and paintings.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-10T15:56:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/11/26/dying-of-shame/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/brene_brown_on_shame-428370.jpg</image:loc><image:title>brene_brown_on_shame-428370</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/images.jpg</image:loc><image:title>images</image:title><image:caption>And then there were none.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/grim-reaper-bmp.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Grim-Reaper.BMP</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/french-jug.png</image:loc><image:title>french-jug</image:title><image:caption>Childhood enigma . . . vintage enema jug.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-17T00:00:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/11/21/black-lung-blues/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/grishma-cover.jpg</image:loc><image:title>grishma cover</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gray-mountainb.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gray mountain</image:title><image:caption>Gray Mountain by John Grisham, cover artwork.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/black-lung.jpg</image:loc><image:title>black lung</image:title><image:caption>Coal miner Lee Hipshire in 1976, shortly after emerging from a mine in West Virginia, at the end of his shift. At age 36, he had worked 26 years underground. A few years later, Lee took early retirement because of pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease. He died at 57. (Courtesy of Earl Dotter)
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-12-01T07:42:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/11/19/today-is-world-copd-day-smoke-and-mirrors/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/malborough.jpg</image:loc><image:title>malborough</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/madfont-jpg-17029078-jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>madfont-jpg--17029078-JPG</image:title><image:caption>Prime Minister Abbott . . . 'Coal is good for humanity'.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/10734174_10203504525153636_2690999282915350807_n.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Susan's lungs</image:title><image:caption>Photo: Susan-Marie (xxx)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-11-20T19:52:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/11/09/puns-and-needles/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/spine-candle.jpg</image:loc><image:title>spine candle</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/imgp1901.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMGP1901</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/imgp1692.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMGP1692</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/chris-me-fran-sept-2014.jpg</image:loc><image:title>chris me &amp; fran, sept. 2014.</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/imgp1756.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMGP1756</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-11-09T23:44:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/11/05/finding-amelia/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/lungs.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lungs</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/amelia-earhart.jpg</image:loc><image:title>amelia-earhart</image:title><image:caption>Amelia Earhart  and her navigator Fred Noonan are captured on film before launching their doomed mission.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/earhart.gif</image:loc><image:title>earhart</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-11-09T01:24:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/10/24/meeting-venus/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/venus-of-willendorf-24000bc.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Venus-of-Willendorf-24000BC</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sharpei-toilet-paper-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sharpei-toilet-paper-1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dscn4617.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSCN4617</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dscn4632.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSCN4632</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/images.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>images</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dscn4619.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSCN4619</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dscn4627.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSCN4627</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dscn4634.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSCN4634</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dscn4635.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSCN4635</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dscn4620-version-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSCN4620 - Version 2</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-10-26T01:02:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/09/04/good-night-dear-man/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/img_20140710_155026_edit_edit.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Chatter Master and Flaham</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/img_20140711_122601_edit.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Meeting Bill</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bill-hamilton.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bill Hamilton</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-09-04T07:27:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/07/25/bogong-dreaming/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rcdeadwoman.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rcdeadwoman</image:title><image:caption>A lonely bush grave.
Photo: Robert Crawford</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nla.jpg</image:loc><image:title>nla</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bogong-ala-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bogong-ala-1</image:title><image:caption>Bogong moth.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-09-05T23:34:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/07/20/speechless/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/homepagenew.jpg</image:loc><image:title>HomePagenew</image:title><image:caption>Dyspnea . . .perfect casual gear for lung exams, with built-in cotton wool. Nose hose snakes nicely through bodice area.
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dyspnea.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dyspnea</image:title><image:caption>Emma Balfour wears Dyspnea.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-07-23T09:47:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/07/08/saying-goodbye-to-fluffy-tiggy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/tigs.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tigs</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/fluffy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fluffy</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-08-04T00:19:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/06/17/transplant-blues/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/currarong.jpg</image:loc><image:title>currarong</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2016-09-03T03:56:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/06/15/news-junky-day-5/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/tower-of-babel.gif</image:loc><image:title>tower-of-babel</image:title><image:caption>Babel@NewsLtd.com</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-06-30T05:47:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/contact/</loc><lastmod>2016-08-30T16:20:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/06/07/ive-come-a-long-way-baby/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2011_dsfb_1122-436x600-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2011_DSFB_1122-436x600-1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/international-womens-day-rally-melbourne1_11410104_tcm11-17964.jpg</image:loc><image:title>international-womens-day-rally-melbourne1_11410104_tcm11-17964</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/page_45-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>page_45-1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/not-fruit-toast.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Not  fruit toast</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-06-10T02:49:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/06/06/love-is-in-the-air/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014_05_28_13_24_02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A Fault In Our Stars</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2024-02-21T09:42:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/05/31/the-kindest-thing/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/shatze.jpg</image:loc><image:title>shatze</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-08-31T20:29:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/05/28/a-kayak-for-clive-james/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/clive-james.jpg</image:loc><image:title>clive james</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/dscn4582.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSCN4582</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/dscn4588.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSCN4588</image:title><image:caption>May, 2014. Frances did the heavy lifting, as always! </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-08-22T01:06:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/05/26/coming-out-with-copd/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/wurst.jpg</image:loc><image:title>wurst</image:title><image:caption>Austria's Conchita Wurst.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-30T03:19:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/04/20/about/</loc><lastmod>2014-08-18T02:50:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/04/20/little-fish-are-sweet-3/</loc><lastmod>2014-06-02T20:27:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/04/20/following-a-wise-star-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/penny-thornton.jpg</image:loc><image:title>penny-thornton</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-06-02T20:34:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/04/22/keep-going-keep-going-keep-going/</loc><lastmod>2014-06-02T20:43:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/04/24/tobacco-wars-and-the-men-and-women-who-copd-it/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/june-whangamata.jpg</image:loc><image:title>June @ Whangamata</image:title><image:caption>My beautiful mum, June, who died of COPD on ANZAC morning in 1999.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/arthur-boyd.jpg</image:loc><image:title>arthur boyd</image:title><image:caption>One of Australia’s greatest artists, Arthur Boyd, painted the emblematic Black Cockatoo flying over the Shoalhaven River at Nowra, near where I live. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-06-02T20:51:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/04/29/powerful-mind-medicine/</loc><lastmod>2016-04-08T00:03:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/05/01/songs-on-script/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/longcoolwoman.jpg</image:loc><image:title>long+cool+woman</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/audrey-hepburn-style-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>audrey-hepburn-style-1</image:title><image:caption>The original 'long cool woman in a black dress', Audrey Hepburn.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-21T05:25:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/05/07/the-white-echidna-and-other-good-news/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/rhonda-and-the-white-echidna.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rhonda and the white echidna</image:title><image:caption>Good news: A rare white echidna saved by Rhonda and Bill.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/538289717-150x150.jpg</image:loc><image:title>538289717-150x150</image:title><image:caption>Good news: A rare white echidna saved by Rhonda and Bill.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-21T05:24:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/05/09/serendipity-synchronicity-shooting-stars/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/shooting-star.jpg</image:loc><image:title>shooting-star</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-21T05:23:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/05/10/an-open-letter-to-big-tobacco/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/41-virginia-slims-cigarettes-ad-smokes-for-feminists.jpg</image:loc><image:title>41-virginia-slims-cigarettes-ad-smokes-for-feminists</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/non3b.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tobacco Plant</image:title><image:caption>Our ancient enemy . . . The flowers of the tobacco plant, by Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), a German professor of medicine.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-21T05:21:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/05/15/budget-copd-patients-to-cough-up/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/screen-shot-2014-05-14-at-11-26-19-am.png</image:loc><image:title>Hockey, Cormann cigar smoking</image:title><image:caption>The Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey, right,  and the Australian Finance Minister Mathias Cormann share a cigar two days before they deliver a budget tough on us chronically ill ex-smokers. Priceless!</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-23T09:01:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/2014/05/19/get-moving-time-is-on-the-jog/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img044.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img044</image:title><image:caption>In my old life I was very active:  long distance running, body surfing, dancing, tennis and pool! (Here I am in the hockey team, far left, bottom row, bad perm).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-21T05:30:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/faqs/</loc><lastmod>2014-05-08T09:17:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/flight-attendants/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sheridegrom.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sheridegrom</image:title><image:caption>Sheri de Grom</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-on-2014-05-05-at-11-17-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo on 2014-05-05 at 11.17 #3</image:title><image:caption>Barbara Farrelly</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-on-2014-03-10-at-11-33-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo on 2014-03-10 at 11.33 #2</image:title><image:caption>Barbara Farrelly 
As you can see  the oxygen masks have already dropped! </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-05-09T06:30:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://thedeparturelounge.co</loc><changefreq>daily</changefreq><priority>1.0</priority><lastmod>2024-02-21T09:42:07+00:00</lastmod></url></urlset>
