Sometimes when I want a bit of an escape from the boredom of home, I go for a short drive to my “other house”. 🤣 Of course, it’s not my “real” home but it’s an escape from the busyness outside on the streets to smack bang into the middle of Edwardian times. Simpler times. The […]
A House That Has Captured My Imagination
There’s something about old, dilapidated houses that I love. (Probably because I spent many years growing up in one? 🤔) I think it’s also because I like to think about who may have lived in them, what they looked like in their hey day and what stories they have to tell. For many years now, […]
Being Asked Questions About Microsoft
It’s been nearly eight months since I left work and I don’t miss it at all as I’ve kept myself occupied with more meaningful endeavours. Lots of sleep, golf, knitting, reading and learning French mainly. Exploring writing, catching up with friends and family, playing with the cat. Everything but work. In some way, I feel […]
How Can You Read So Many Books?
A friend of mine sent me this snapshot of a tweet last night and asked if my husband and I could provide an answer. As I’m not on social media anymore (and likely not to ever get back on it), I answered her directly (and not the tweet obviously). My average for books read every […]
Book Review of Anti-Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Time for a new book review. I’ve been reading a lot of classics of late. Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and even some Anita Brookner books but I decided that I needed to get back to Taleb’s Incerto series and continue reading the books there. (I have two more to go). I picked out Anti-Fragile, […]
Threads
I wake up this morning to the news that Zuckerberg has about 30 million followers on his new app called Threads. Remarkably similar to Twitter, it wasn’t surprising he’d copy this app. After all, he did it with Snapchat to create Facebook Stories. If you have an Instagram account, all your followers move over instantly. […]
Life in the 80s
I’ve been watching YouTube videos of people who have uploaded video footage of their childhood or school life and it’s been interesting. I stumbled upon the channel of Len Enders who had taken footage of life with his friends at home and school which brought back memories for me because he had captured a point […]
La Bohème
Annoying my neighbours by playing this song in the house quite loud. I dare you not to shed a tear. (For the song, not me).
Book Review: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss
Here’s my latest book review by Anita Heiss. Its a timely book as it’s NAIDOC Week and later this year, Australia will have the Referendum for the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Given the amount of nasty comments I’ve been getting on my YouTube channel (most of it unrelated to books), and […]
Using a Payphone
Today the only thing I did was to walk around the block for a bit of exercise. (Rest of the day was spent watching The Crown épisodes on Netflix and reading Anti-Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – a quiet day). During the walk I saw this public Payphone. I stopped and read the notices to […]
Book Review of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Here’s my latest book review that has gone live on YouTube. My god, what bleakness. If you can’t be bothered watching, I wrote about it in this post. Long and short of it was that I thought Cathy was a cow and I couldn’t wait for Heathcliff to hurry up and die already. I schedule […]
Oh the Sarcasm in Pride & Prejudice
I’ve just finished reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I was never interested in these period novels as I mistakenly thought they’d only be about young women wanting to marry a rich bloke. The tediousness of reading gossip, how much the son of each family makes and who was to marry whom would have reminded […]
Saturday Morning Meandering Thoughts
“If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is”
Today, I did nothing. Nothing but sit back in my husband’s recliner, watching YouTube the entire day. The cat dozing in my chair while I allowed myself to have an entire day devoted to watching Kurt Vonnegut documentaries. Something about today just made me make it all about this brilliant humanist writer. While I sat […]
Memoir Writing Masterclass
Yesterday after my weekly French conversation with my friend online (we have been talking for nearly two years every week which has improved my French considerably), I headed to the local library for this masterclass. In all honesty, the reason I signed up was that finally, there were places and I managed to get a […]
Typical Comments, Received & Binned on My Blog
When you write or share videos online, it’s fair to say that you’re game for any person out there to comment on it. Many times, the comments are helpful, thoughtful and appreciative. Other times, not. This morning I saw these two comments left on one of my blog posts and although they come from the […]
Viktor with a K
I decided to submit a short story for the My Brother Jack Awards again which is a local writing competition. Of course, I have no delusions of winning prizes for creative writing because I find this type of writing difficult. It’s as if I have to get out of my own selfish ego and write […]
Book Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Here’s my new book review up on YouTube. I enjoyed this short spooky book.
Digital Insanity Poem
An oldie but ever more the case today.
My Female Crush: Anita Brookner
This week I read Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac. I bought the book from a local second hand book store for $3 and at the time, I was deliberating whether or not to buy it because it won the Booker Prize in 1984. I’m not a fan of Booker Prize winning books. Every time I […]