Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Lack of diagnosis of #MECFS meant that I wasn’t informed that exertion was dangerous. This year I pushed myself beyond my limits and ‘crashed’. Now every thing I do is planned: standing up #POTS, walking, working at my desk. My world is very small now but my memories of wild places keeps me going. 0154
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026After a severe #MECFS crash six months ago I became bed bound and housebound for months. I’m only slowly managing to recover with the hope that life will go back to some semblance of ‘normal’. On Saturday, I walked up a mountain track in northern Victoria. 193
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026From the days before social media, Rodger Deakin savoured the simplicity of random ideas… “Jottings, in their spontaneity and complete absence of any craft, are often so much truer to what I actually feel or think at a given moment.” #RodgerDeakin #naturewriting #eastcoastkin #writing #natureheals 020
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Small things, deep gratitude. #cureME #MECFS #rest 050
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Recovery has made my world very small of late. To keep my mind from being consumed by my situation I am focussing on the beauty of the small things around me. #cureME #fibromyalgia #cancerschmancer #natureheals #MECFS 040
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Reading poetry out loud tonight by Gerard Manley Hopkins. What a wild tongue twisting challenge it is but so vibrant and alive. #poetry #natureheals 010
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Thinking about the beautiful lotus flowers that I saw in full bloom at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne a couple of years ago. It’s been one of those days. #biophilia #natureheals #fibromyalgia #MECFS #planttherapy 170
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Stillness. Magpies carolling in the street outside and the cat snoozing in a ray of morning sunshine. 030
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Seasonal harvest in challenging times. Although cancer treatment has well and truly ended now, #fibromyalgia still has its grip on me leaving me confined to bed. #natureheals #eatyourveg. Some days are tough but it’s essential for me to hold on to happiness. 000
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Something was brewing at my coastal campsite retreat last night #girlsownadventure #cancerrecovery #fibromyalgia #natureheals 192
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Each year I take myself camping to recover from #fibromyalgia. This year, I’m also recovering from cancer. Being here reminds me to pay attention to daily moments; respond with compassion to my chatter of self recrimination and observe the beauty and diversity of life in this remarkable landscape. 280
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 08/11/2025It’s such a great season for roses in Central Victoria. This is a heritage rose from my front garden. Two years ago, I picked some flowers for a friend who had just finished chemotherapy. Little did I know that two years later it would mark the end of mine. #cancer #natureheals 041
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Yesterday, I sat in the garden to take in spring. My post chemo / fibromyalgia fatigue was so intense that I couldn’t stand. So, I sat there for an hour, flowers in full bloom all around me watching honeybees up close, sipping nectar from one flower, gathering pollen from the next and felt lucky. 080
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025It’s that time of year… for planting veggie seeds. Way behind due to a year of intensive and challenging cancer treatment but I’ll still give it a go.. #spring #cancerrecovery #sustainability #veggies #eatyourveg #thankgodforcancerresearch 040
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025This week I read Claire Keegan’s ‘Small Things Like These’ which asks us how we will act on injustice. Brilliant writing. Highly recommend. #BookerPrizeShortlister #literaryfiction #BookClub 160
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Trigger plant beauty on the coast of Lutruwita (Tasmania). #Australianflora #nature #biodiversity #plantconservation 080
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Happy Caturday. #gentleSaturday #pettherapy #cancerrecovery 060
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Dew on winter leaves. #nature #winter #biophilia 020
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Here in Australia, our spider orchids (genus Caladenia) are a little different.. 🕷️🕸️ 150
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Eyespot (mimicry) as demonstrated by my tabby Clara. Who’s watching who? Can you see it? #mimicry #evolution 030
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025It’s a cold, cold winter here as I go through chemo. Remembering back to my wonderful summer trip to #freycinetpeninsula #lutruwita #tasmania 270
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025My wild, unkempt garden with a native lawn is teeming with life. Three skinks darted anxiously by, blue banded bees are whizzing around inspecting flowers and the eastern spinebill perches on the stakes in the garden to take a sip of nectar from the salvias. #wildgardens #wildlife #biodiversity 050
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Gratitude 💕. Boyfriend thinks he’s hopeless with food but brings me this delicious meal for lunch. So lucky to have such wonderful support for my cancer recovery. 130
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Absolutely love this book by Isabella Tree about rewilding the Knepp estate (which I am reading in this sweltering heat from the comfort of my toddler pool in the garden… incl. mosquito net).. 010
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Buda historic house, central Victoria Australia. Home of the Levini sisters who lived there together as creatives until the end of their lives. #migranthistory 000
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Christmas mask made my my six year old pal. Don’t think I’m going to put it away just yet. #creativekids 140
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Found this magnificent grasshopper in the garden today. No idea what it is… suggestions welcome. #entomology #Australianinsects #australianinvertebrates 260
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Day 16 of Covid. Finding peace at breakfast time in my wild, messy garden. Hoping to be well for Tuesday’s biopsy. 150
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Day 15 of Covid, and I’m reflecting on my recent trip to beautiful Lutruwita / Tasmania. My place for healing. 010
Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024It’s been a tricky week with some health challenges. So in between appointments in Melbourne today, I took myself to the Royal Botanic Gardens and gasped in wonder at the stunning display of lotus in flower. 290
