I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and today it’s to make up a story or scenario using the following painting by Berthold Woltze called The Irritating Gentleman. My first thought when I saw this (and I have never seen this painting before) is it’s a typical scene from many young women’s […]
Creative Challenge – Day 13
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) creative prompt challenge every day in December. So far these have been excellent to trigger some reflections but today’s one is something I’m unsure in expressing so openly for fear of what it may mean to my friends, work and networks. As a creative person, what is in your […]
Creative Challenge – Day 12
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompts for the month of December and for Sunday, it was to create my own spell that reclaims my creative identity. I’ve been thinking about this one for the last day or two and decided that I’m going to give it a miss. Why? I’ve never been […]
Creative Challenge – Day 11
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge for December and today, the task she asks us to do is: “Today I would like you to reflect on your own creative identity and your relationship with that: how do you perceive yourself to be creative?” She asks us to think about it in […]
Creative Challenge – Day 10
I am doing Meredith Lewis Daily December challenge where she prompts us to get creative every day. Today is a bit of a cop out for me because I simply ran out of time. I hate using this as an excuse usually because I’m always a believer that if something is important to you, you’ll […]
Creative Challenge – Day 9
I am doing Meredith Lewis Creative Challenge every day for December where she inspires us to do something – and write something creative. In today’s challenge, we are encouraged to get drawing our maps. It could be a map of our life, something we want to do, anything really. I love maps but when the […]
Creative Challenge – Day 8
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) creative challenge and today’s creative prompt is “What Happens Next?” After spending the day walking through a lush forest near my home, I began to feel like myself again. I felt the cool, clean damp air enter my lungs and be expelled with every breath taking away the tension […]
Day 7 – Creative Challenge
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt and today it’s to write as if I’ve been shipwrecked. My name is McCoy. Able Seaman William McCoy of His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty. Or, I was. I’m not sure what I am anymore – or who I am. I belong to no ship now. The […]
Creative Challenge – Day 6
I am doing Meredith Lewis creative challenge and today’s creative prompt is “Who’s Future Am I Living?” I don’t know where I am. I look around me and I see a room. There is so much light. I look around and see a chair, a cat quietly dozing on a lounge. Books, lots of books. […]
Creative Challenge – Day 5
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily advent creative challenge and for today it’s “Write as if these are the last days.” How would you write as if the history of your civilisation – or even your species – was coming to an end? I have said all my goodbyes to friends and families. They were […]
Day 4 – Creative Challenge
I’m doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) Advent Calendar of Creative Prompts this month and today’s creative prompt is to write about something from my wardrobe that will give me a superpower. What would I like to turn into? Who would I be? Where would I go? For those who may know me, I like to dress […]
My French Learning Journey – What’s Next…continued
I’m still deliberating what to do next year in my French learning journey and come to the realisation that at an intermediate level now, I’m STILL not speaking enough of it. On the other hand, I’m listening to a lot more (and proud to say understanding most of it – when they’re not speaking slang) […]
Day 3 – Creative Challenge
I’m doing Meredith Lewis December Advent Creative Calendar challenge. Today’s creative prompt is: “Well, I would put a question to you. What’s the difference between you and your great-great-great-grandfather? What makes you different? I think the answer is this: what you take for granted.” – David Mitchell in Light the dark: Writers on creativity, inspiration, and the artistic […]
Microsoft Teams Rooms: A Mini Masterclass
Yesterday I put the final touches to a mini-masterclass on Microsoft Teams Rooms. I had started this over a month ago when there was talk at work about how organisations now are preparing their people to return to the office. In particular, how to help organisations with their actual physical space requirements for hybrid work. […]
Creative Prompts – Day 2
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompts as part of her Advent Calendar for Creativity. Today’s creative prompt is to imagine a story when presented with a picture as part of the Lazy Assumption Game. The first story is to make up something of the first impressions you got with this photo; and […]
Scrooge and The Ghosts
I signed up to receive Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) advent calendar email which sends out daily prompts for December to inspire some creativity. Given that I enjoy everything that Meredith creates, I thought when I can, I’ll do the activities and see how I go. Today’s prompt is about using my imagination to have my own […]
Resettlement Training
Many years ago when I was in the Navy, one of the supports the provided all military staff when they left the “Service” was what they called “Resettlement Training”. Every member was entitled to this as it consisted of a programmed series of guest speakers, events, counselling and other services related to resettling the defence […]
My French Learning Journey…What’s Next?
I can’t believe that when I started on my learning journey to become fluent in French, two years ago have passed. Since then, I have had my life enriched with new people I have met around the world who are French native speakers or francophiles who have helped and supported me along the way. I […]
Welcome to My Bookshelf Tour
This week I decided to do a bookshelf tour of three shelves in our lounge room and although most of the books are my husband’s, you can instantly tell how different our tastes are! Enjoy!
We Wrote Another Book on Gourmet Teamwork
A couple of years ago, the company I was working for at the time Adopt & Embrace, decided to write a book together. The book was called Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination with Microsoft Teams. It was a wonderful experience to write a book with my colleagues […]