Last night we went to the inaugural opening of our new local library. Over the last year it’s been renovated into a double storey, youth and community space with plenty of light and areas to quietly read, work or gather with others. To celebrate, the library had put on entertainment through the day plus a […]
Learn How to Draw at the U3A
Today I had the wonderful opportunity to go and see my father teach a 9 week term class on Learn How to Draw at the U3A. The U3A stands for the University of the Third Age, a not-for-profit education organisation that provides a variety of courses and education for semi-retired or retirees all around the […]
At a Certain Age, A Woman…
At a certain age, a woman nests. Amusingly, I thought that a woman nests when she’s expecting or when she’s expecting something else from life from now on. Actually, I think I was purging more like. My child rearing years are long gone behind me. Well, to be fair, they never arrived but nevertheless, today […]
Who is Jordan Peterson?
Who indeed? I have to wonder about these bloody algorithms that bring up such bullshit into YouTube feed. * Mental note: figure out a way to get rid of YouTube shorts because they get bizarre I have no idea who this person is. Never heard of him. However everything about him is making my sensors […]
Monday Night CD Night
Tonight’s listening pleasure is the soundtrack to Stranger Things which was on Netflix. We enjoyed the show because of this soundtrack. It was music we grew up with in the 80s. I had to stop knitting because of all the foot tapping and needing to sing along and head nodding. I love our music nights. […]
The Big Ditch
It was a quiet start to the week. This morning after my morning meditation, I headed down to meet a girlfriend for breakfast however as I had forgotten my phone at home (which happens more frequently nowadays), I sat at the cafe waiting for her and reading my book. (Kikuko Tsumura’s, There’s No Such Thing […]
Flabbergasted
Today I find out the salary of one of the School Principals of a friend’s child private school is $490 000. $490 000. F&!$&!! hell. 🤬 I was floored. No wonder our education system is broken. This is insane especially when public schools need more support; teachers are leaving the profession. The system is broken. […]
My New YouTube Channel Causes Me To Radically Rethink Everything About What I Put Out There
I’ve customised my YouTube channel to remove ‘activate learning’ and to just be Life Lessons Through Books. Some time ago, I asked the question Should I Get Off YouTube? The reason is that after getting off social media, I’m reflecting on every single aspect of my working life and my output that I have shared […]
En Route to Normal
Last night Andrew and I headed off once again to see Bill Bailey at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda. It’s an impressive building built in the early 1900’s by the same guy who built Luna Park across the road. This theme park is one of two in the world that gives us a glimpse […]
Mordialloc Meandering
This morning I went for a walk around Mordialloc Creek for something a bit different. The area was established in the 1850s and over the years was a place for fishing and boat building. Those days are long gone now and it’s a quiet seaside town to walk or go get fish and chips and […]
Relaxing Day
This morning I had quiet one. I didn’t go for a walk but instead crocheted for a few hours as I learn some skills (crochet flowers on a colourful top I’m learning how to do from a Spanish YouTuber who speaks no English. Half the time it’s a guessing game). Nevertheless it was a serene […]
The Art of Life: Just Play, Just Be
Today after doing a bit of gutter cleaning while the tradespeople worked on our back yard, I decided to come back into the house and contemplate what’s next on my ‘To Do’ list. It’s a bit weird to not have things to do to a certain time line – time, well, it’s open now. I […]
Packing Up: Ready to Leave Work
It dawned on me that packing up my office tech at home, I had no colleagues in real life around me. It wasn’t “the office”. My tradesperson was the person who I shared my last day of work. He was the one who congratulated me and wished me all the best in person. Weird state […]
Two More Work Days Left…Then?
Tuesday will be my last day of work. Tonight, I deleted the work apps off my phone. Stopping work means I also stop using all Microsoft products and apps because I will need to return the work laptop (and I’m on Apple tech for my personal tech). On Friday night, someone asked me what I […]
Books Everywhere
Books on the floor beside my bed. Three stacks. Twelve books. Ten have been read. Two been put aside. Each stack for one municipal area of Melbourne. City of Glen Eira; City of Kingston and City of Monash. Each area has about 7 local libraries. I have 21 libraries in my direct vicinity. I’m the […]
People Watching
One of the things I love to do, now even more so that I don’t have a phone in my hand when I’m out, is people watching. Imagine my delight that I can now do it from home by putting up YouTube channels on the big screen. There’s something fascinating watching people go about their […]
New Book Review: The Latecomer
I started a Book Club Community on Yammer at work as one of the first communities to get people onto the platform. (Little success as I was the main one posting in it). However, at various times people told me that I should read certain authors from their own country. So I did that and […]
Eerie Coincidences
On Friday last week I headed over to the Woodlands Golf Club in Mordialloc. As a newly joined member of this golf course on the sandbelt of Melbourne, I now have a place away from home where I could meet new people, play golf and socialise whenever I want. It’s a welcoming club and I […]
Stairs To Nowhere
Once again the vivid and recurring dreams have started. I’ve got five more work days until I stop work so it’s not surprising that the dreams now are deeper and weirder. Last night, as soon as my head hit the pillow, I fell into a deep sleep. I had played golf yesterday walking over 20,000 […]
Community Manager Burnout
It’s a thing. I’m sure of it. After being in the field of Learning and Development and spending most of my work life in the social learning space helping people build communities of practice, using enterprise social networks (like Yammer) to help them build authentic and trusted relationships and networks in their organisation, helping people […]