I wake up this morning to the news that Zuckerberg has about 30 million followers on his new app called Threads. Remarkably similar to Twitter, it wasn’t surprising he’d copy this app. After all, he did it with Snapchat to create Facebook Stories. If you have an Instagram account, all your followers move over instantly. […]
Life in the 80s
I’ve been watching YouTube videos of people who have uploaded video footage of their childhood or school life and it’s been interesting. I stumbled upon the channel of Len Enders who had taken footage of life with his friends at home and school which brought back memories for me because he had captured a point […]
Using a Payphone
Today the only thing I did was to walk around the block for a bit of exercise. (Rest of the day was spent watching The Crown épisodes on Netflix and reading Anti-Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – a quiet day). During the walk I saw this public Payphone. I stopped and read the notices to […]
Saturday Morning Meandering Thoughts
“If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is”
Today, I did nothing. Nothing but sit back in my husband’s recliner, watching YouTube the entire day. The cat dozing in my chair while I allowed myself to have an entire day devoted to watching Kurt Vonnegut documentaries. Something about today just made me make it all about this brilliant humanist writer. While I sat […]
Memoir Writing Masterclass
Yesterday after my weekly French conversation with my friend online (we have been talking for nearly two years every week which has improved my French considerably), I headed to the local library for this masterclass. In all honesty, the reason I signed up was that finally, there were places and I managed to get a […]
Typical Comments, Received & Binned on My Blog
When you write or share videos online, it’s fair to say that you’re game for any person out there to comment on it. Many times, the comments are helpful, thoughtful and appreciative. Other times, not. This morning I saw these two comments left on one of my blog posts and although they come from the […]
My Female Crush: Anita Brookner
This week I read Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac. I bought the book from a local second hand book store for $3 and at the time, I was deliberating whether or not to buy it because it won the Booker Prize in 1984. I’m not a fan of Booker Prize winning books. Every time I […]
How To Distinguish Truth From Fiction
Continuing onto the third skill highlighted in Robin Good’s article “What We Really Need to Learn to Be Successful in Life – Part 1″ is How to Distinguish Truth from Fiction. Good question. How do we? Especially at an age where it may seem that everything we read and see online may be fake. Going […]
Bits and Bobs For The Week
I finally finished my seamless jumper! This one was designed using a tutorial on “how to design your own sweater” using any yarn and using some basic mathematics to determine how much yarn I had to use and stitches to cast on. Knitting a square and then determining its tension and with a measuring tape […]
Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday
I had a chuckle with this post. Why? I had thought of doing the same thing but then I thought I’d only find a set that goes up to 1990 or some such…. Forget the gas masks and Spam, and maybe try buying some encyclopedias to prepare for the AI-driven information apocalypse instead. — Read […]
How To Predict Consequences
“Kids nowadays don’t know the meaning of consequences,” says my husband after he’s heard yet another story on the news about wayward teenagers creating havoc in the suburbs. “Maybe because it feels as if there are none nowadays. Or they haven’t learned to understand that with each action there is a consequence – good or […]
What We Really Need To Learn To Be Successful In Life by Robin Good
I’ve been reading the curated lists of Robin Good’s work for many years. He has been consistently sharing educational and informative links in the field of learning and education for many years. In particular, he introduced me to curation and the many different platforms that I could use to curate information sources. Here is a […]
Knitting in Public Day
June 10th is Knitting In Public Day and this year, Linda, librarian of Caulfield Library and expert crafter organised an afternoon of knitting for our local community. So I gathered a couple of friends from my knitting and ukulele groups (who then invited theirs) and headed down to enjoy knitting and chatting for a few […]
Another Unsuccessful Job Application
Argh. I’ve been trying to get a casual or contract role in a library since late last year but to no avail. The roles I’m going for are helping customers with finding books; returning books to shelves and general admin roles. Today I received yet another rejection. Luckily, some time ago I had spoken with […]
Stuff I Write in My Personal Diaries
Relax. It’s nothing exciting. I’m in my 50s and life has become a tad less thrilling. Today this is what I wrote and cracked up with myself. Emily is my niece. If anything, my diaries are random collections of thoughts that I would otherwise not express publicly. Mostly self deprecating or self loathing but almost […]
Hand Talk
This week in our french class, I submitted a video for general discussion. It’s about the gestures that the French do and how I got nearly all of them WRONG. In the video, the host says that in order to learn the French language, you also need to understand the gestures they use. If you’re […]
Earthquake In Melbourne
Early this morning around 1:30am I was awakened by a tapping sound just outside our bedroom door. Andrew wasn’t in bed as he had just returned from a night watching a live band in a dodgy part of town. He was in the lounge room having a quiet cuppa before he went to bed. As […]
Competition Frenzy
About once every couple of months (or thereabouts), I sit down at my computer and spend a few hours submitting for competitions. Usually I do random searches of local or national competitions and they could be anything. Health and beauty products, cash, home accessories, fashion, garden, cars, travel, anything really. As I don’t play lotto, […]
Wuthering Heights
I’m reading Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and getting my fair share of the Yorkshire Moors. A book to read on these dark, cold, windy Melbourne nights. But geez, already, Cathy and Heathcliff! I have to get a hold of myself and rethink how I approach this book every night as I reach for it. Cathy […]