Today I had a bit of an adventure. I had to break a $100 note (yes, I still use cash as back up emergency and as it’s still legal tender even though some shops refuse to take it). I was walking by my bank and walked in. I asked if I could get 10 $10 […]
Lazy Days
Now that I have so much time on my hands, one of the things I love to do on sunny days is sit out in our back garden for the entire day. After a morning walk, I come home to breakfast and take it outside. I move everything out there, my yarns, my craft projects, […]
Reflections Of The Year Post-Work: What I’d Like to Do Next
It’s been a little over a year now of not working. At the time of resigning from my previous employer, Rapid Circle, I had been planning to take the year off and then decide what it is I wanted to do. However, truth be told, the plan was never to return to the kind of […]
Three Tawny Frogmouths Sitting In Our Tree…
There was a lot of bird shite on our lawn and I looked up to see a couple of Tawny Frogmouths sitting in our tree. I think it was Mother and Baby while the Father looked on in the next tree. (These birds mate for life and share the feeding of their chicks). They look […]
Reflections About Social Life
While I’m not working now and waiting for the next 2.5 years for my husband to retire as well, I’m using this time to learn and play golf and continue with my French studies to occupy my time. I’m also reading a lot and improving my knitting and crochet skills (self-taught). Over the weekend I […]
The Crappy 2020s
I’m calling it out that the 2020s can go back into their box. I’m struggling to think of another time that has seen so much fear, anger, arguments, conflict, lies, power plays and more in situations that are not just playing out on the world stage but are also impacting relationships between family members. I’m […]
I’m Eligible for the YouTube Partner Program
So after a little while (it’s taken over two years of creating short book review content), I get this notification from YouTube that I’ve reached enough to monetise my channel. They invite you to join the YouTube Partner Program which entitles you to receive resources and monetisation features which allow you to have a share […]
Playing Pitch ‘N Putt: A Nice Finish to a Great Week
Today for a couple of hours, Andrew and I played 18 holes at the Waverley Pitch N Putt. It was the first golfing event we had played together in a year. It’s because he has his golf club – and I have mine – and we play on separate days so we never actually end […]
It’s Come To This: We Bought Off Amazon
I came home yesterday from the golf practice range to find this huge box with the dreaded logo delivered to our doorstep. My husband bought a new golf range bag for his clubs and used Amazon to buy it mainly for its convenience and the reduced cost (alas, he fell into their trap)! He anticipated […]
Cleaning Our CD Player
I’ve been enjoying playing some of our old CDs but our CD player skips tracks and it’s most annoying. It may be due to a buildup of dust over the years. We usually play our CDs through the DVD player and through the sound bar but this set up is a bit old fashioned but […]
Everything That Is Wrong With Companies Use of AI
Yeah, right. I wouldn’t be LOLing. A friend sent me this tweet yesterday and I had to roll my eyes when I read it. (People send me screenshots of ego-driven LinkedIn posts, weird Instagram photos and various other social media posts so in a way, I’m constantly reassured that getting off social media was one […]
A Year Since I Last Worked
I can’t believe that a year has already passed since I resigned from my last role as a community manager in a tech company. Around the same time, I also gave up and deleted all my social media accounts and felt that I had walked away from another part of my life to start afresh […]
Charity Day at the Woodlands Golf Course
Today was our Charity Day at the Golf Course. I couldn’t stay for the entire event and instead helped out directing teams of players to different holes. Being out here at 8am for a shotgun start, this was my view for the next four hours. Sunshine, birdsong and watching people play their shots on Holes […]
Filming At Our Place
We had landscaped our front and back yard over the last couple of years throughout the wet winters and covid lockdowns. Today a film crew came around to interview us and take some footage of the garden to be used as promotional material for the landscaping company who did the work. As we were most […]
Some Thoughts on Filming
On Tuesday I had my first job as the new member of the Heritage Committee at our golf course. I was to film an interview between two long term members who spoke about their story and memoirs of Margie Masters who won a title at the LGPA in 1967 and a member of our club. […]
Starry Night by Don McLean
This came on the radio while I was driving in my car today and I had to pull over, turn it up louder and let the beautiful lyrics and music wash over me. Sometimes you just need to treat certain songs and music with reverence. This is one of them.
Sunday Stuff
After much hassling the husband to buy some outdoor furniture for our new landscaped garden, we finally went to a nearby showroom to look at what was in stock. Luckily, we have the same taste in furniture. I despise anything sleek and modern looking, so I wanted either wood or wicker. It didn’t take long […]
Digitally Erasing Oneself
Some time ago I deleted my social media accounts and only kept this blog and my YouTube channel. Since then, I won’t lie, I have been thinking about starting them up again because I miss knowing what’s going on with my ex-network. What stops me restarting them is soon after, I am overcome with boredom […]
Monday Afternoon in the Garden
I played my 18 holes of golf this morning with 25 points. I had lunch at the club then stopped by Bunnings to see if they had any strawberry plants. This year, I’d like to plant some in pots and see how they grow. The afternoon was spent propagating more cuttings and creating a whole […]
Invitation to Join the Heritage Committee
Yesterday I was surprised and delighted to be invited to join the Heritage Committee of the Woodlands Golf Club. Ever since I wrote the article about the fascinating story of the Mayfield Estate that used to be on the golf course grounds since the mid-1800s and demolished in 2002, I’ve had members come up to […]