This weekend was the annual Clunes Book Town Festival. Two days on the celebration of books and story telling in a rustic town of Clunes which is about two hours west out of Melbourne. We headed off nice and early so that we couldn’t be stuck in Saturday traffic and stopped at a service station […]
Volunteering at Our Charity Event
Yesterday our golf club held the 9th Annual Epsom Day, a charity event. I was asked to help out on the day to take photos and help out which I gladly agreed to. It was an early start and you could still see the moon up high in the sky when the first group started. […]
The Genius or Maniacal Man When It Comes To Technology
A recent book review I uploaded (thanks to a recommendation by my friend Fiona who I have some back and forth conversations about AI), was Benjamin Labatut’s The Maniac. I think it’ll be one of the best books I’ll read this year as it’s about how man wants to understand – and overcome – nature. […]
Ladies Night at the French Film Festival 
It’s been a few years since I last attended this particular event at the annual Alliance Francaise Film Festival. So I decided to attend once again this year as it’s been some time that I’ve done something like this for myself. Usually I go to events like this by myself and find people to chat […]
We Had Our First Book Club Author Event for 2025
Last Wednesday I hosted author, Caroline Petit who wrote the book, The Natural History of Love to our golf club. I started and run the Birdies, Bogies and Books Club at our golf club and every month we have a book to read and discuss. Sometimes I source the books from a local library who […]
How I Take Notes When Reading a Book
A couple of weeks ago, I published this video where I shared how I take notes while reading using note books where I journal my thoughts. It’s got many views and it made me realise how it might be an important topic for some people. I was interested in their comments which showed that we […]
Transferring All My Blog Posts
One of my own projects I’ve started is to transfer all the 1498 blogpost onto a Word document (well, to be exact Apple Pages as I don’t use any Microsoft programs anymore). My intention is to print them out into Volumes of Books so in the near future I can archive and pull down this […]
Creating a Book Club Journal
I’ve been on a roll lately creating a couple of journals that are not only creative to make but also a lot of fun. Recently I made a Reading Journal that I could use to write notes every time I read with the intention of selling it on Amazon. However I keep delaying putting it […]
Our 19th Wedding Anniversary
I can’t believe that it’s been 19 years! They go by so quickly. Unbelievable to think that within six months of meeting each other we were married. (When you just know, why silly dally?! 
) Every year we celebrate our anniversary by treating ourselves to a dinner at a local restaurant. We decided to try […]
Extracting 1498 Blog Posts One by One
Oh this is going to be painful… This week I finalised the Reading Journal Notebook that I created and ordered a printed proof from Amazon to arrive before I publish it. It’s known as a ‘low content’ book in that there’s not much text in it. This is a surprise for me as I usually […]
Changing Ways
My husband and I are thinking about going overseas next year. We haven’t been on any long holidays (albeit for a weekend away to Inverloch and Castlemaine nearby or a week with family in Canberra) since 2018 (I went overseas to a conference in 2020). So it’s fair to say that we are both hanging […]
The Moon & Sixpence Book by Somerset Maugham Book Review
Here’s the latest video book review which was interrupted by my husband (who does not read my type of books! )
Flâneur Friday ~ Patterson Lakes
Yesterday I thought I’d take a short trip down to Patterson Lakes. It’s a suburb about twenty minutes drive from my place inland near the Patterson River. The entire suburb consists of canals and waterways with the houses each having a small jetty and a boat. It reminded me of being in Queensland on holiday. […]
Spending Time with Mum
In the last week, I started going out again during the day. Christmas, and the week between that and New Year, was quiet and I didn’t feel like leaving home at all. I preferred to be holed up at home and spending long hours on the couch reading. I became a hermit reading lots of […]
My Annual YouTube Analytics
Every couple of weeks or so, as a YouTuber, I get a wrap up of the analytics of my channel. It’s interesting to go through it and see how it’s being received but if I want more details, you can drill down into the analytics in that specific section in YouTube Studio which is the […]
Happy New Year!
I can’t believe another year down. Where did the time go? In 2024, I kept a daily diary where I wrote down what I did, where I went and what happened each day. Let’s just say there was a lot of golf and reading going on… I started the year optimistically with the goal of […]
My Year in Books – Reading in 2024
103 books and over 25,000 pages read. It’s been a brilliant year of wonderful reading – and very little television watching. I hope to continue the trend in the new year…..
What I’m Reading
When we were in Canberra a couple of weeks ago, we caught up with friends whom we hadn’t seen in years. Over dinner, the discussion started on our favourite books and this one was mentioned. It was published some years back and it was one that had some popularity. Certainly the film also helped to […]
Book Review of She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai
Here’s the latest weekly video that I uploaded this morning on Makoto Shinkai’s debut novel, She and Her Cat. He’s a well-known Japanese anime film maker who created this story first as anime so I assume that as a novel, it would reach a wider audience….
Book Review of Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
This week I uploaded this book which is the first time I read this author. It’s written beautifully but the subject makes you feel concern for the main character, a young woman under the power of her harsh father. Lots of themes of personal power, patriarchy and domestic violence.