This morning at around 5:00ish, I finished up reading Patricia Hampl’s book The Art of the Wasted Life. Thanks to Euan Semple for the prompt that got me downloading this book. What a wonderful book that celebrated solitude – getting and keeping that space that allows us to be by ourselves and our thoughts. I […]
Block Eleven
Oh my. I do love this solitaire card game. A few nights ago, I checked online to see what other card games for one person I could learn. Ever since lockdowns (which introduced me cards and other games to pass my time indoors), I’ve been playing cards because they keep my mind active, I’m learning […]
Reminiscing About Different Fitness Classes Over the Years
One of the things I keep hearing about is that I should incorporate more weight training in my exercise routine. To be fair, exercise is something I’ve been doing most of my life but most of the time I’m half hearted about it, in that, I’m not obsessed by it. It is what it is. […]
Little Bit of This, Little Bit of That
It’s a dreary grey wet day in Melbourne. I feel as if the weather has finally turned. I was meant to meet up today with my friends Fiona (White Owly on Twitter) and Megan Strant but I postponed because of the weather. It had been raining here since 5am and ever since we had the […]
Hedgeley Dene Gardens
During our lockdowns, we were unable to travel beyond 5km (and then later, 10km) from home so I took it upon myself to act like an intrepid explorer of my local surrounds within that radius. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon this beautiful park set amidst some stunning period homes. It’s called Hedgeley Dene […]
Brownie Points for Being a Cool Aunt & Some French Stuff
Today I headed over to my parents where we had a family lunch with my brother, his wife and my young nephew. After lunch we all headed over to the park to get out of the house a bit. It was a stunningly beautiful day, 27 degrees and without a cloud in the sky. The […]
It’s My Birthday
It’s my special day today. To be fair, the older I get, the less significance this is to me but what I do enjoy are the chats and messages from family and friends on the day. I’m on the phone a lot because it rings throughout the day. This morning Andrew surprised me with a […]
Things I’m Happy to Have Experienced At Work in the Past
Let’s face it things have changed at work haven’t they? Those my age or older have faced a completely different work environment than the newbies just entering the workplace. I’m not going to say that it was better back then – let’s just say, it was different. Much like what the workplace/working from home is […]
Incredible Dreams
I’ve had some weird but incredible dreams the last couple of nights. Last night I dreamt I was celebrating a wedding reception at a restaurant in Greece. I didn’t know anyone there as I sat down with guests and conversed with them. They were surprised at my level of Greek. I later find out that […]
A New Outdoor Gym
Last night I had a shocking night’s sleep. I had some weird dreams of being snowed in (no idea why as I haven’t seen snow in many years). However, I got up, donned the gym gear and drove to a nearby park. I recall my mum letting me know that an outdoor gym had been […]
Quietly Quitting
Last night, a YouTube video showed up in my feed which piqued my curiosity. I have never watched any of this bloke’s videos so this was the first one I watched where he shared his thoughts about ‘The Great Resignation’. I am unsure of the evidence of some of his claims that many people are […]
Reception at the Golf Course
Today I awoke quite early as Andrew has been watching The Masters from 5am the last few days. I couldn’t get back to sleep after he woke, so I spent a few hours reading and doing French exercises. I enrolled into two French courses with the Alliance Francaise for the next few months. The first […]
Enjoying Golf
Yesterday afternoon I had my second on course golf clinic with a few other ladies. I signed up for the Woodlands Golf Course Women’s Introductory Program which is a program involving classes, on course clinics, private lessons and mentoring where we each have one of the lady members help us learn the ropes of the […]
Grey Hair ??
It took over a year but I’m finally nearing the end to my “hair situation”. I like to change my hair style often. Cut it, colour it, style it, you name it. However it costs an arm and a leg. As I’ve been growing grey since 19, I’ve been dyeing it consistently since then. My […]
Tessa Furniture
Some time ago, I was introduced to Tessa furniture from a friend of a friend, and I fell in love with it. Tessa Furniture is (was) an iconic name in Australian furniture manufacturing. The furniture was heavily influenced by Scandinavian designs and were well designed and crafted to quality standards. The factory was open in […]
I Love a Nice Beer
While in Castlemaine over the weekend, we tried out a few of the local beers from microbreweries. As I tap this post out onto the phone, Andrew is on the phone to a supplier trying to find where around Melbourne we can buy some more of these beers by the Shed Shaker Brewery. (They seem […]
Visit to the Fang Bosun
Fang Bosun. Now there’s a blast from the past. That’s the Naval term for “dentist”. I hadn’t been to the fang bosun for a while. Imagine when the dentist looked over his glasses at me and said, “well we haven’t seen you since 2018”. That took me by my surprise. “Wow, it feels like I […]
Social Media Hiatus…Again
So we are back home from a weekend away and reality hits me like a ton of bricks. Last night, I got online and scanned through my Twitter feeds and became quickly disheartened once again with the state of politics in this country, the thousands of people displaced by the flood (a second time) in […]
Goodbye Castlemaine
Our last day in Castlemaine to end a weekend away, saw us head up to the hill to the old Castlemaine Gaol. It was built in the 1860s and permanently closed in the 1960s but now, it’s in the process of being made into different artisan workshops. Certainly last time I was there, there weren’t […]
Maldon Meanderings
Today we drove 15 minutes away to the township of Maldon and felt we were in a time warp back to 1853. We enjoyed a wonderful breakfast at the hotel chatting with the owner and while I was waiting for the bread to toast, I perused the shelves and found the perfect book for Andrew! […]