Golf Trip to The Dunes
This week on Friday, the ladies from my Golf Program decided to celebrate one of our friend’s 60th birthday by playing at The Dunes on the Mornington Peninsula. We are lucky to be in an area with awesome golf courses that have spectacular views of the sea, rivers and countryside in our state. The drive […]
A Week of Golf and Cleaning
Last week, the ladies from our golf club, my 2022 Women Into Golf Program, all decided to head to 13th Beach Golf Club at Barwon Heads to play two rounds of golf over two days. I’m so happy I participated in this 6 month program that not only has helped my golf but it now […]
Book Review: Leonard & Hungry Paul
This was one of the best books I’ve read this year. It was lovely! No sex, violence, bad language, awful characters, bad writing, nasty families or people thinking the worst of each other. It was a breath of fresh air.
Quiet Life and Spring Days
It’s been quiet at home. After we put down Pud, I didn’t want to leave the house for over a week. I spent most of my days writing in my journal, cleaning the house and packing away all his things away into the garage. I also walked a lot at a nearby park. I cleaned […]
Rest Your Paws Pud
We had to say goodbye to our darling boy this morning. We are devastated and heartbroken that he left us so soon. Unfortunately his health deteriorated and it was only going to get worse. We didn’t want him to suffer. We found out that he had an aggressive osteosarcoma that had nearly eaten through his […]
Book Review: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
My latest book review is on this book that was surprising. For a book that is well known but didn’t receive acknowledgement or popularity (much to the annoyance of its author), I’m glad I read it. If you want a book where you will detest all the characters, then look no further. If you’re not […]
Pud
Our cat Pud has had a difficult time since May. He’s been one sick little cat but we are trying to get his health issues sorted so he can have a comfortable life as long as possible. Yesterday the vet tells us that they may have got the original diagnosis of megacolon wrong when an […]
Jaunt Around Melbourne University
It’s Seniors Week this week with a variety of different events around the state celebrating our seniors, health and ageing. Seniors can travel free on public transport all month. I asked my mother what she’d like to do this week and one place she always wanted to visit was to see the futuristic car park […]
Talking About Books ~ Vlog Q and A
My latest video is a vlog where I answer some questions that no one has asked (let’s get real about that 🤣) The questions are: There’ll be some other questions which I’ll answer on another video (Part 2) and I’m thinking of answering these questions: I’m also thinking of doing a video on how I […]
Keeping Warm in Winter for Cheap
She’s got the right idea! Although I don’t have a sleeping bag, this year, during winter, I wrapped myself up in a heavy pure wool blanket that I bought in Scotland many years ago. On my feet, I had on a pair of my thick knitting wool socks and a hot water bottle. In fact, […]
Looking Forward To Book Club Tonight
It’s a bit hilarious to think that the highlight of this week will be Book Club. We are both looking forward to it as an event not to be missed! Why? Well, the book this month was Australian author, Christos Tsiolkas new book “The In-Betweeners”. For anyone who knows his writing, well you can understand […]
Selling My Books
This year, I’ve taken to selling stuff – mainly my business, HR, management, learning and development books to get some pocket money. Nothing too much mind you (it’s a long game) but I’ve realised that I have some great books which could be references that others may need now in the workforce. The only books […]
Trips to Animal Emergency
Over the last few days when Melbourne was gripped by footy Grand Final fever, we spent it waiting at our vets and then later, to Animal Emergency to get Pud the care he needed. Over time you get to notice the change in behaviours of your pet. We noticed that he wasn’t using his kitty […]
Book Review of East of Eden by John Steinbeck
This book was brilliant. Just do yourself a favour and read it. (Just found out that Netflix is doing a series on East of Eden! 🙌)
Things Are Pretty Bad
Walking around various local suburbs going about my normal day, it’s fair to say that things have deteriorated. ~ Rubbish is in the streets everywhere ~ Pot holes on our roads that go unrepaired (this annoys me because it destroys my car wheels) ~ Police cars with graffiti on them (signs of protest made by […]
Lazy Sunday Afternoon Pretending I’m in Hawaii Golfing
Okay, so we can’t travel at the moment because everything is so expensive and we are waiting until Andrew retires in January 2026 BUT I can still pretend… This afternoon when the sun came out, I decided to head out to our backyard under the wonderful paperbark tree (which is 53 years old) to try […]
Our Book Club Author Event
This year I started a Book Club I’ve called Birdies, Bogies and Books at my golf club. Its one of the many clubs (other than golf) that members can become involved with and as I love to read and share my love of reading, I created the group, curate the book list and then run […]
New Second Hand Book Haul
I love to visit second hand book stores so naturally, I went to Savers and saw these wonderful books. Someone was obviously clearing out their Julian Barnes collection so I bought the entire lot for $2 each. BARGAIN. I’m slowly getting rid of some books that simply don’t do anything for me but unfortunately, I […]
What Would the World Be Like If We Didn’t Have Covid?
That’s the question that my husband asked me last night. We were watching the news which had a story about how the Melbourne City Council is trying to entice workers back into the city. Our city is still feeling the effects of the long lockdown of 2020 where it felt we were all in our […]