As poor little Pud has been sick lately we monitor his health daily. It means unfortunately he’s not always using his litter. Stressful for him as it is for me. However, I’m not too fussed in all honesty. I keep a fairly tidy house but not “sterile clean” because that’s way too much work (and […]
Knitting Projects
This month due to a lot happening where I had to drop everything and care for parents or the cat, I decided to start a few knitting projects of varying brain capacity. I needed some brainless knits that I could take with me when waiting at medical appointments or vet visits just to get my […]
Book Review: Steppenwolf By Herman Hesse
Here’s the latest video I uploaded to my YouTube account.
Cafe Rando
Once a month on a Sunday, our French School has Café Rando, an informal and leisurely beach walk at the Rickett’s Point Marine Sanctuary followed by a coffee at the beachside cafe there. It’s an opportunity to meet other students and Francophiles and bavarder en français. 
What a stunning day! We have been lucky […]
Mensis Horribilis (Horrible Month)
I would say that this month has been one of my worst months in a long while. It included everything from illness, emergency, doctors, ambulance, even a funeral. However in hindsight, after all that, it’s also a month that has shown me what I will face more often in the near future with ageing parents […]
Book Review: The Porcupine by Julian Barnes
Continuing with my reading of books by Julian Barnes, I read The Porcupine recently. I found it at a second hand bookstore in a condition worse for wear and sticky taped it back together again. It was only $2, it’s pages brown and brittle, as I turned them they’d split from the spine. I found […]
What I’ve Been Reading, Finished Reading or Unable to Continue Reading
Here’s my latest video vlog talking about what I’ve been reading and what I put down. I don’t always have one video per book simply because I read too many books and it takes a long time to shoot, edit and upload these videos. Instead I choose which books I devote a video to nowadays. […]
Sunday
While my family members have Covid this week, it meant the day was quiet as it was spent at home. Today I submitted a short story for the Booroondara Short Story Competition. It’s a story about a homeless man which I made up on the spot as a conversation between two rich young girls who […]
Learning a Language According to Me
I’ve been watching my husband using DuoLingo to learn German. It’s that little ding when he gets something correct, that I now hear every night. However, when he gets something wrong, he becomes frustrated because he loses points. He has to repeat something and then he can’t move on to the next level. Welcome […]
New Book Review of Wifedom by Anna Funder
I posted a new book review on my YouTube channel on Anna Funder’s controversial book Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life. As a huge fan of George Orwell, I read this book at the same time as his books of his Diaries and Letters. It’s worth reading and it makes you question why his wife wasn’t […]
Playing At Flinders Golf Course
Today I played at the Flinders Golf Club Charity Day with a couple of other ladies from my club as well as representatives from over ten different clubs around Melbourne. What a gloriously sunny day as we couldn’t have asked for a nicer day. Heaps of sunshine, no wind and spectacular views of the rugged […]
How I Grew Up in Clips
My typical Saturday mornings unable to ever sleep in…. Every family gathering where all my aunts were in the kitchen. And afterwards, when they did the dishes Meanwhile all my uncles inside the dining room And when I tried to cook anything…. This 
The Glass Menagerie
Last night Andrew and I went to see this play by Tennessee Williams. It was his first play that rocketed him to success where later in life he wrote plays like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Street Car Named Desire. This production was from our local theatre company. I like going to these […]
When You Can’t Travel…
Just sample produce from another country you’d like to visit. My French 
classes started again today. I always enjoy the classes at My French Journey in Hampton because Nathalie makes them so interesting. The term goes over ten weeks and our teacher also organises various events such as Sunday walks, book clubs and even […]
Bits and Bobs From This Week
I met up with a girlfriend for a long walk around South Melbourne. It’s one of my favourite places to walk as the houses and terrace homes are all old and beautifully maintained. Some of the places have the blue signs at the front (like those around London) to learn the history of the place. […]
Chicago
Andrew and I went to the theatre Friday night to see Chicago. We are fans of musical theatre so all the big Broadway shows and productions on in Melbourne are must sees for us. Over the years, we have seen too many to mention. We are lucky to live in a city that has such […]
Enrolling into Creative Writing Stage 1 Course with the Australian Writers Centre
This week, I decided to finally take the plunge and enrol into a course with the Australian Writers Centre. I had been eyeing this course for some time but made plenty of excuses not to do it. Frankly, my money could be better spent on things around the house that need improvement or fixing (plumbing […]
Using Scrivener
Yesterday while Andrew was using the home office to work, I took the laptop into the kitchen and sat at the table with it. I pondered what to do on it. Should I surf YouTube? Should I work on my YouTube channel Life Lessons From Books? Should I write a short story? What? I decided […]
Vivid Dreams Once Again
I don’t know why people say you dream in black and white. I can assure you I dream in full splendorous colour and like I’m watching a film. Last night I dreamt that I was working for some start up design company. Their offices were all clean bare pinewood panelled, minimal layout and sleek furniture. […]
Book Review of Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
Here’s the latest book review that has been published on my YouTube channel called Life Lessons From Books. I love the writing of Coetzee and I’m collecting all his books as I find them in my travels through second hand book stores. I’ve got another one that will be published soon called Diary of a […]