I wish my backyard looked like this! Last year we decided that as we can’t travel overseas, we may as well bring the overseas to us. As such, our plan was to landscape the back yard and make it into a space where we enjoy being outside. In the past, our back yard was a […]
Happy Traveller
One of the YouTube channels I’ve been getting lost in of late, are the Happy Traveller series introduced to me by my parents. The series is hosted by ever-enthusiastic and always happy, Eftichis Bletsas and he travels all around Greece as well as the rest of the world showing different places of interest but also […]
Existential Crisis
I’ve not been “feeling the love” this year. When the new year came in, I was nonplussed about it all. Unlike other years where I used the opportunity to set some new goals and start afresh, this year, it was “meh”. No plans, no goals, no resolutions. Just go with the flow. The thing is, […]
Little Video Snippets
I’ve always loved recording videos and some years back, taking daily videos on what I was learning and experimenting on (using Snapchat) was the way I preferred to communicate. I have written how I used this platform (truth be told, you can actually use ANY platform but I preferred Snapchat as it captured the “time” […]
If Less is More, How are You Keeping Score?
This morning on my daily walk I decided to listen to some French radio streaming from Paris. I use the app Radio Garden on my phone to listen to various French (and some Greek) radio stations. This song came on and I must admit, I’ve never heard of Eddie Vedder so listening to the lyrics, […]
My Notion of Microsoft Loop
Things at the beginning of the work year are always a little bit quiet until people get back from holidays and commence projects for the upcoming months. As such, it’s always the “calm before the storm”. So what I have been doing is catching up with all the Microsoft changes and using this quiet time […]
My First Park Run
During the first lockdown in 2020 (we like to call it, Lockdown 1.0), I started to go out every day before work and knock off 10,000 steps. I was walking every day and it got to the point that it became a habit and something which I NEEDED to start my day with every day […]
Continuing with French
I thought I’d write about my plans for French studies for the next few months in 2022. I have written lots over the last couple of years of my journey into language learning and I’m chuffed to say that there is nothing more unbelievable than listening to someone speak in French and….YOU UNDERSTAND THEM! My […]
Happy New Year?
Is it happy? Will it be happy? It seems weird to start my first post of the new year having a bit of a whinge and a cry. After all, we’ve been through the crappiest couple of years and now heading into a new one with the hope of some improvement. (However, at times I […]
Smarter Note Taking
First book I read in 2022 on my new Kindle (a nice gift from Santa, thank you very much) was How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens who also has a great website Take Smart Notes. Why Did I Choose This Book? Some time back in early 2021, I started on the journey of […]
Creative Challenge – Day 23
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) and thinking I may have missed a day somewhere. No matter. Today she asks us: During this busy time of year, did you have time to respond to all of them and make stuff, or were some or all of them treated as thought-exercises that could only be responded […]
Creative Challenge – Day 22
I am doing Meredith Lewis Creative Challenge – an advent calendar of daily creative prompts and today it’s to recreate an artwork using materials around you. I’m a great fan of Vermeer. Some years ago I was a Rotary Vocational Exchange Program participant for some weeks in the Netherlands. My time on exchange meant that […]
Creative Challenge – Day 21
I am doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompt challenge for the month of December. Today she encourages us to answer the question: “How important are the following questions to you when you assign values of success or failure to your work?” Here goes. This is TOUGH to answer but these are questions I have often […]
Creative Challenge – Day 20
I’m doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompt challenge. Today, she’s asked us to imagine what the colour of lilac would taste, feel, sound like – to pretend we are a synesthete. I’ve often wondered how people can have this skill and what it would fee like. I feel overwhelmed with my current senses at times […]
Objects of Affection
For the last few months, I’ve been watching various YouTube channels that follow quite creative and inspiring people to share stories about objects around their home. I’m not a minimalist by any stretch of the imagination. However, on the one hand, I don’t like clutter and on the other hand, I also like a house […]
Creative Challenge – Day 19
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and for today’s activity, it’s to banish this ugly looking demon who has stifled and prevented my creative endeavours. Bloody hell it’s you again. You’ve reared your ugly head again just at the time when I thought of a new idea that I was getting […]
Creative Challenge – Day 18
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and today it’s to face up to someone who has criticised or prevented us from our creative expressions. That was an easy challenge for today’s prompt because it’s so evident in my life that the turning point for me was early in my career when […]
Creative Challenge – Day 17
I am doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompts for December and today’s challenge is to: List at least five different supportive people who can support you in your creative endeavours, whatever they may be. And if you can’t, list some ways in which you might find them. Wow, this is a tough one. I’ve long […]
Creative Challenge – Day 16
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative challenge for the month of December and today it was to “memorise a poem”. It’s fair to say that poetry hasn’t been an interest of mine in my life. I think it’s because of bad school memories of English class having to read and interpret poems. To […]
Creative Challenge – Day 15
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) creative challenge for the month of December where she sends us a creative prompt every day. Today it’s to reflect on the activities that absorbed us as a: Young child Young adult Right now What’s the pattern? This activity is referenced from Etienne Fang who has a brilliant website […]