It’s bordering on the ridiculous. Two dreams last night and both like feature films. If I write them down, I could sell them as novels. One I was in a domestic violence situation. The fear felt real, the husband (whom I’ve never seen before in my life but had a striking resemblance to my father […]
I Wore My Pyjamas All Day
Now I have to clarify this. It was Monday. A work day. I worked all day in my pyjamas. I ran meetings, in my pyjamas. It’s a first. I’ve never done this before. What level of “not caring about personal appearance” have I reached? My usual habit is to get dressed appropriately complete with hair […]
Sunday Afternoon in Virtual Reality World
Some years back in 2017, I got a Favolcano VR viewer from some conference I attended. It was a freebie. Part of the swag they gave out. At the time, 360VR was relatively new but you could use your iPhone as the player and the viewer as a stereoscopic device to immerse yourself into the […]
Turtles Helping Each Other Out
This is what we need more of – not just turtles but humanity too.
Life Is Like Quadratic Equations
I have no idea why but my dreams have been vivid recently. I’ve also been sleeping deeper than I ever have before. I have no idea why. I know I’m not physically tired, I’m in good health generally and count myself lucky I haven’t caught COVID…yet. However I do find myself finding it harder to […]
Photos From the Wool Show
I’m sitting up in bed looking out towards this window waiting for the rest of the house to wake up and get ready for the day. It’s a quiet Saturday morning at a regional town of Elphinstone which has a general store, a pub, a cemetery and some homesteads dotted about. We are staying here […]
The National Wool & Sheep Show is ON, Baby! Yeah!
Sitting here at 0615 on a Friday morning. Ahead of me a 2 hour drive to Bendigo to attend the National Wool and Sheep Show, the biggest in Australia. It’s a chance of anyone who is a lover of sheep and wool to come along and see the different industries. My favourite? The yarn stalls […]
Changes I’ve Experienced Without Social Media in My Life
Here are some things I’ve been noticing now that I’ve permanently deleted social media from my life. It’s nearing 30 days now which means at the 30 day mark without re-entering my accounts, they are wiped of everything I’ve ever written and shared is permanently deleted. Years of work, photos, videos, followers and followings, ramblings. […]
Sunday Sunday
This morning Andrew arrives home fifteen minutes after he left for the golf course. I thought he has forgotten something which doesn’t set up the day ahead because he becomes cranky for the rest of it. However, the course was closed due to fog. That was my signal to get up from bed, get dressed […]
Gnats Gnats Everywhere
One of the disconcerting things that Andrew tells me about our home, is the ever increasing numbers of pot plants. “Where did that pot plant come from?” He asks as I look away suddenly seeing something else that I must attend to. With the amount of plants in the house, it means there are little […]
The Happy Life
I finished reading David Malouf’s The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World. He is one of Australia’s greatest writers and I do own a couple of his books. This one was more of an essay into his pondering of happiness drawing upon literature, arts and philosophy to explain it. The last […]
Morning Routines
I love my quiet mornings. Lately I’ve been sleeping really well. I feel rested when I get up as it means I’ve been getting deep sleep. I’ve been dreaming too – strong, vivid dreams that make me content when I get up. I feel as if I’m “getting back to normal” whatever that means. This […]
Morning Walk with The Smiths
A quiet foggy and crisp walk this morning to watch the sun rise. I stopped to admire this and in my ears I was listening to Morrissey’s : Everyday Is Like Sunday. (Which I then listened to a few times more). (I’m not going to go into his political leanings here).. This morning’s playlist had […]
Vivid Dreams
One of the things I’ve noticed happening a lot more often are my vivid dreams. They’re quite spectacular at times with a story line, with characters, wonderful scenes and beautiful colours (I have no idea why some say we dream in black and white. I dream in colours). At times, I look forward to going […]
Jouer Au Golf et Apprendre Le Francais Ensemble
What do you do if you feel you lack time when it comes to learning all the things you want to learn? Do it all in the one go. Find things that build upon each other. For example, I’m new to golf. And I’m a left handed golfer at that. Golf is a backwards sport. […]
Morning Jaunt Around Swinburne University
During the covid lockdowns (all 263 days of them ?), we were under certain restrictions. One of which we could only travel 5km of our home. This started a new habit of mine to take excursions in my local area and in so doing, I discovered new parks, places of interest, history, shops, artworks and […]
Why I Left Social Media
I decided to share my thoughts via video on this one.
When There’s No Community, Mutiny
This was what a colleague had accidentally said when he got tongue tied talking about community during one team meeting and we all rolled around in laughter. Little did he know that sometimes, you need to prod to get a reaction in a community. A Like, A Follow, A Share, Something, Anything…. Is there anyone […]
Update on LinkedIn: Stay or Go?
It’s been 2 weeks since I deleted Twitter. Do I miss it? Not at all! Facebook is now permanently deleted too. That is, I didn’t post anything in it for over a year now but I just decided to bite the bullet and permanently delete the accounts once and for all and become social media […]
Curated TidBits For the Week: Lessons for Learning
Substack, Schmuckstack I know that creators out there need a way to make money from their content and create substack newsletters but frankly, I’m really sick and tired of hearing about it. There’s a lot of hype around it. These platforms come and go like waves. First there was blogging, then there WordPress, then there […]