This was doing my head in. This, this whole situation about the floods, nuclear war, Ukraine, our prime minister poking the bear with China, prodding, egging on, big noting himself now as the only man to stand before China before an upcoming election to make people scared so he’s re-elected. This, from the same man […]
Low Day
Another low day yesterday. The sads usually overcome me on Sundays. I have no idea why it happens on this day. Maybe it’s because the next day is the start of a new work week which I now dread? (Work has changed for me in a way I’m trying to comprehend). Maybe because it’s usually […]
On Language
Yesterday my friend Fiona or @white_Owly on Twitter tweeted: When I was drafting my response, I had to rewrite it a few times because I was using words that were NQR (not quite right) at this point in time. The words I had originally used was “to be bombarded with changes”. The word bombard didn’t […]
In The Office
Over the last couple of days, our leadership team who had arrived from the Netherlands to meet the Australians were in our Melbourne office. I decided to go in and work from the office to meet them and also see more of the Melbourne colleagues whom I’ve never met. To be fair though, I had […]
Three Screens
Many years ago now, when I was in the military and based in Canberra, we were required to carry out Officer of the Day (although they called them Duty Officer because it was a rotation with all three services) out at Navy Office HQ. As Duty Officer, you had to stay there overnight and be […]
Women’s Introductory Golf Program
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been getting back into golf. This was a sport I started about ten years ago and it was introduced to me by my husband Andrew, who’s a mad keen on the sport. Through his help, he bought me a set of left handed clubs (even though I am […]
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Knitter Scorned
Over the last couple of days, I’v been watching with interest of a situation play out in the knitting community about Those Two Dudes from eCom Crew who shared a podcast about them buying the knitting (dot)com URL for $80 000. During the podcast, they talked about how they thought knitting was a niche market […]
I Don’t Know What to Write
Like many around the world who are sitting in their homes and watching their large and small screens to what is happening in Ukraine, I watch in horror once again. It seems the world has taken a disastrous turn of events. We have seen so much these recent times, the pandemic, Taliban taking over Afghanistan, […]
Self Care
I’m sitting here on the lounge in the light filled living room. I’m killing time. The cat is snoring beside me, his paws wrapped up under his face. He looks so cute that he melts my heart. Part of me wants to pick him up and cuddle him, another part is that despite all that […]
We Wrote a Book
Our second book is now available through Amazon Kindle. This one is a little bit different to our first book which was called Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination. This first book provided some ways for teams to be able to use a framework that helped support these. We had received […]
Pud’s Routine
I ran out of ideas to write about so I was inspired by this short video I created of our adorable fat cat, Pud. I wrote about Pud, in a post called What My Cat Teaches Me About Myself and I would say that he has played such an important role during the lockdowns. (Ok, […]
Scent of a Woman
Can someone tell me why on earth haven’t I seen this film before? What planet have I been living on? I’ve made a little pact with myself to spend my Sunday afternoons catching up with movies that I may have missed that are ones on lists of “must see in your lifetime”. The reason is […]
Redundancy
Many years ago when I was in the corporate world, my nickname used to be the “Black Cloud”. It wasn’t because I was a sorry sod (I was upbeat and enthusiastic), it was because every time I joined a company, within a year of being there, my department or team was restructured and ultimately, made […]
Books, Bootcut & Bubble Tea
Just home from a lovely day out. Today was our Book Club Day. I was invited to join my good friend Jasmine’s book club. A club she started with a few of her girlfriends whom she has worked with or connected over interests. The book we discussed today was Radical Candor by Kim Scott and […]
Second Hand Books
I love old book stores. Yesterday I found the City Basement Book shop hidden away between a couple of shops. A small single non-descript door and a long flight of stairs down into a squirrels den of musty, dusty books. I remembered going into this store back in the early 1990s and now that I’m […]
In Love With Stranded Colour Work
I’ve always loved fair isle jumpers. They’re the ones with the stranded colour work around the shoulder, sometimes on the sleeves and around the bottom on the rib. Northern Europeans seem to love them. In Australia, if you’re seen wearing one, you’re likely to be mocked. “Did your mum buy you that jumper?” If you […]
L’Hotel du Nord
I signed up for weekly French conversation classes with Nathalie who runs them at a nearby cafe close to home. A small group of us gather there every alternate week in person and also online through Zoom to chew the fat in French and get an informal lesson from her. I found the group through […]
Preparing for the Unknown
This morning while drinking my morning coffee and checking messages on my phone, I type into Google “Russia and Ukraine World War III”. I had to stop myself there and didn’t even see the search results. I put the phone down and contemplated why I did that. It’s not a way to start a new […]
Getting Into Golf
Yesterday I had my first lesson as part of Womens Introduction to Golf Package run by the Woodlands Golf Course. My friend Caroline and I used to be members of the Womens Golf Network, a social golf club ten years ago that organised lessons and golf games as well as trips away. With life getting […]
Testing out WordPress App Story Posts
Mucking about with the mobile WordPress app in my hammock this afternoon, I saw the “Story Post” option which looks like you can create basic stories and upload these as pages onto your blog. I’ve been using the stories feature for many years (with Snapchat – and blogged about this many times in this blog) […]