Many years ago, I used to play golf socially. A bit of a hit and giggle for me and joined The Women’s Golf Network which put on 9- and 18-hole rounds every week at the courses around Melbourne. I loved being part of the network mainly because of the social element plus weekends away which […]
To Have a Durry
A couple of nights ago, I went to see a French movie as part of the French Film Festival called Les Jeunes Amants (The Young Lovers). What struck me the most about the film was not their relaxed attitude to having affairs, but everyone smoked! It was a bit bizarre to see everyone lighting up […]
Being Prepared
Over the last week, I’ve been getting better prepared for possible emergencies. I have been pulling together “survival” kits (well, they’re more like what we would need to make a quick exit out of the house or loss of utilities- depending on situation – and survive at least a few days without access to basic […]
Petit Nicolas
It’s a public holiday here in sunny Melbourne. Another beautiful cloudless sky and no breath of wind. It’s a day to laze around and relax before the onslaught of work begins again tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’ve taken Tuesday & Wednesday off (I work three days a week), which means an extra long time to do the […]
Finished Avena
I’ve been knitting a seamless top down jumper with a repeated leaf motif around the shoulders of a design by Jen Steingass called Avena. Here’s what it looks like. It’s the second jumper of hers I knitted (see me wearing it below) which introduced me to colour work as I was building my knitting skills […]
Visions of India Exhibition at Monash Gallery of Art
Today the weather was beautiful. Clear blue skies, no wind. I got up this morning and did a little bit of housework but I didn’t feel like staying home. I had to get out there to enjoy the day. Andrew was going to watch golf on the television all day so I bid adieu to […]
A Pleasant Day
Today I spent a pleasant morning with my parents in South Melbourne. It’s a lovely part of town with stunning homes built at the turn of the century, tree lined boulevards and parks where the trees were all planted many years ago that sprawl casting lots of shade. People were out and about enjoying the […]
On Leave
And not too soon either! I work three days a week and at times I think that even that is too much. Of course, I jest. In all honesty, I don’t know why I didn’t just work part time for most of my life (then figured out a way to make some passive income or […]
International Women’s Day
Today I learned yet another company putting profit above social good. I thought I’d share something about the day on Yammer this morning at our company given that we hadn’t prepared anything formally (maybe this is something to take note of for next year if I’m still around and organise an event although it shouldn’t […]
Do Something, Anything
This was doing my head in. This, this whole situation about the floods, nuclear war, Ukraine, our prime minister poking the bear with China, prodding, egging on, big noting himself now as the only man to stand before China before an upcoming election to make people scared so he’s re-elected. This, from the same man […]
Low Day
Another low day yesterday. The sads usually overcome me on Sundays. I have no idea why it happens on this day. Maybe it’s because the next day is the start of a new work week which I now dread? (Work has changed for me in a way I’m trying to comprehend). Maybe because it’s usually […]
In The Office
Over the last couple of days, our leadership team who had arrived from the Netherlands to meet the Australians were in our Melbourne office. I decided to go in and work from the office to meet them and also see more of the Melbourne colleagues whom I’ve never met. To be fair though, I had […]
Women’s Introductory Golf Program
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been getting back into golf. This was a sport I started about ten years ago and it was introduced to me by my husband Andrew, who’s a mad keen on the sport. Through his help, he bought me a set of left handed clubs (even though I am […]
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Knitter Scorned
Over the last couple of days, I’v been watching with interest of a situation play out in the knitting community about Those Two Dudes from eCom Crew who shared a podcast about them buying the knitting (dot)com URL for $80 000. During the podcast, they talked about how they thought knitting was a niche market […]
I Don’t Know What to Write
Like many around the world who are sitting in their homes and watching their large and small screens to what is happening in Ukraine, I watch in horror once again. It seems the world has taken a disastrous turn of events. We have seen so much these recent times, the pandemic, Taliban taking over Afghanistan, […]
Self Care
I’m sitting here on the lounge in the light filled living room. I’m killing time. The cat is snoring beside me, his paws wrapped up under his face. He looks so cute that he melts my heart. Part of me wants to pick him up and cuddle him, another part is that despite all that […]
We Wrote a Book
Our second book is now available through Amazon Kindle. This one is a little bit different to our first book which was called Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination. This first book provided some ways for teams to be able to use a framework that helped support these. We had received […]
Pud’s Routine
I ran out of ideas to write about so I was inspired by this short video I created of our adorable fat cat, Pud. I wrote about Pud, in a post called What My Cat Teaches Me About Myself and I would say that he has played such an important role during the lockdowns. (Ok, […]
Scent of a Woman
Can someone tell me why on earth haven’t I seen this film before? What planet have I been living on? I’ve made a little pact with myself to spend my Sunday afternoons catching up with movies that I may have missed that are ones on lists of “must see in your lifetime”. The reason is […]
Redundancy
Many years ago when I was in the corporate world, my nickname used to be the “Black Cloud”. It wasn’t because I was a sorry sod (I was upbeat and enthusiastic), it was because every time I joined a company, within a year of being there, my department or team was restructured and ultimately, made […]