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Life, Work & Reflections
Personal reflections, travel, family milestones and everyday moments: the other side of a blog written by a real person, not just a professional. 919 posts in this collection — showing the most recent 257 below. Browse the full archive for everything else.
2025
- A Trip to Clunes Book Town Festival
- Changing Ways
- Creating a Book Club Journal
- Extracting 1498 Blog Posts One by One
- Flâneur Friday ~ Patterson Lakes
- Happy New Year!
- My Annual YouTube Analytics
- Our 19th Wedding Anniversary
- Spending Time with Mum
- Transferring All My Blog Posts
2024
- A Good Clean Feels Cathartic
- A Little Bit of Japan 🇯🇵
- A Nothing Day
- A Typical Evening Scene
- A Visit to Mont Albert & Box Hill
- A Visit to Prahran Mechanics Institute Library & Toying with a Storyline Idea….
- Ancient Greek Pebble Games
- Argh. Now Husband Has Covid
- At the Crossroads of a Decision
- Bad Golf
- Bah! Amazon Shmamazon
- Baking the Japanese Cotton Cheesecake
- Battered by Melbourne Storms
- Being a Tourist in Canberra: What I Saw & Did in Our Nation’s Capital
- Bits & Bobs For the Week
- Bits and Bobs From This Week
- Blocked Drains
- Brute Force Spam Attacks
- Cafe Rando
- Celebrating Our 18th Wedding Anniversary
- Chicago
- Clingy Cat
- Collecting RATs
- Come Book Shopping With Me
- Conversations with People Who Are Still Working and Those Who Aren’t
- Creating a Reading Journal
- Creative Writing Practice
- Delectable Desserts
- East of Eden
- End of Term Dinner at the French Providore Cafe
- Enrolling into Creative Writing Stage 1 Course with the Australian Writers Centre
- Everything Is Breaking Down
- Fake Eyelashes Everywhere
- Finally Caught COVID
- Floodwatch Warnings..Again
- Fog
- Futuro House
- Glendalough Revisit
- Happy New Year
- Holey Moley
- How I Grew Up in Clips
- How to Lose a Library – Public Books
- I Started a Book Club
- If You Can’t Travel to Paris, Go To Bendigo in Regional Victoria
- If You Write Dull Shit, It Doesn’t Matter What You Die From
- Indoor Skydiving
- Jaunt Around Melbourne University
- Keeping Warm in Winter for Cheap
- Knitting Projects
- La Surprise de l’Amour
- Last Book Club Chat for the Year
- Lazy Sunday Afternoon Pretending I’m in Hawaii Golfing
- Learning Inclusive Language for French
- Learning a Language According to Me
- Live Writing
- Love Affair with a Hot Water Bottle
- McClelland Sculpture Park
- Medea and Other Plays
- Mensis Horribilis (Horrible Month)
- Morning is My Favourite Time of Day
- My Year in Books
- My Year in Books – Reading in 2024
- Personality Tests
- Pharoah Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria
- Playing At Flinders Golf Course
- Playing Sandhurst Golf Course
- Pretending Like it’s 1942
- Pud
- Quiet Life and Spring Days
- Reading Graphic Novels: Sharing My Thoughts on Video
- Reading The Divine Comedy by Dante
- Recurring Dream: Locating My Room in a Corridor
- Rest Your Paws Pud
- Sunday
- Talking About Books ~ Vlog Q and A
- Tasting Raclette
- The Cult of Taylor Swift
- The Glass Menagerie
- The Kids Run the Show
- The Lifespan of a Fact
- Things Are Pretty Bad
- Travelling Around Japan By Train
- Trip to Inverloch
- Trip to Moonee Ponds to Check out Collins Booksellers
- Trips to Animal Emergency
- Uneasy
- Using Scrivener
- Visit to Bastille Day French 🇫🇷 Festivities at the Queen Victoria Market
- Visit to Canterbury
- Visit to Cape Patterson
- Visit to New and Old Parliament House in Canberra
- Visiting Monash University’s Ukrainian Exhibition
- Visiting My Old University
- Vivid Dreams Once Again
- Watching the Magpies
- What I’m Reading
- What Possessed Me To Read The Road?
- What Would the World Be Like If We Didn’t Have Covid?
- What are My Next Steps?
- When You Can’t Travel…
- Why I Love My YouTube Channel: For The Stories People Write
2023
- A Crochet Project: Aquarius Sweater
- A Dialogue with Bank Staff
- A House That Has Captured My Imagination
- A New About Me Page
- A New Haul of Old Books
- A Terrifying Future
- A Trip to East Malvern
- A Year Since I Last Worked
- Achievement Unlocked: I Speak French
- Activate Learning in the Post-Work Years
- Afternoons Singing & Strumming
- Algorithmic Justice League
- All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan – Famous poems, famous poets. – All Poetry
- All Writing is Human
- Annie Ernaux: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022
- Beanie Madness
- Become Fluent in French in 8 Hours a Day
- Being Asked Questions About Microsoft
- Birdies, Bogies & Books: The Bookclub I’ve Started
- Bits and Bobs For The Week
- Blue Sky
- Champagne & A Little Bit of Bûche de Noël
- Changing Behaviours
- Cleaning Our CD Player
- Competition Frenzy
- Crazy Weather, Crazy People
- Creating a Preferred Supplier List
- Did You Say…Work? 😳
- Digital Insanity Poem
- Dreams About Flying
- Earthquake In Melbourne
- Eye Dominance
- Feels Like Covid Lockdown Days Again
- Figuring Out What’s My Next Skill to Learn
- Filming At Our Place
- Fixing the Dishwasher
- Florence And The Machine
- Follow Me, Coco Chanel
- French Markets in Melbourne
- Friday Afternoon Golf
- From the Diaries: What is Your Most Overrated Virtue?
- Gigantic Mushrooms
- Give Me a Dream
- Going Through The To Do List
- Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday
- Hammock Symphony
- Hand Talk
- Heading Off To France…Ummm, Virtually
- Hier Encore
- Hotel Bars
- How To Distinguish Truth From Fiction
- How To Predict Consequences
- How to Read
- I Had To Kill You
- I Have Not Been in My Home Office for Months
- I Shouldn’t Complain About Work…At Least I Didn’t Make A Lot of Holes….Les Petits Trous
- I Wagged School Today
- I Won a Book Competition!
- Invitation to Join the Heritage Committee
- It’s Come To This: We Bought Off Amazon
- I’m a Luddite
- Jane Eyre
- Jersey Mimosa
- Kids Giving Up on School
- Knitting in Public Day
- La Bohème
- Lake Tuggeranong
- Lazy Days
- Lazy Wednesday Morninb
- Library Lovers Day 14 February
- Life Lessons from Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Life Lessons from War and Peace
- Life in the 80s
- Looking After Parents
- Memoir Writing Masterclass
- Monday Afternoon in the Garden
- Monetising my YouTube Channel
- More Books!
- My Brother Jack Fiction Prize
- My Female Crush: Anita Brookner
- My First Day of Summer School
- My First Ukulele Performance
- My French Journey
- My Golf Training Plan
- My Happy Place
- My Medals Arrived
- My Peaceful Place at Rippon Lea
- New Crochet Skills
- No More Screens After 5:30PM
- Nothing Wrong With Starting with Grammar When Learning a New Language
- Oh the Sarcasm in Pride & Prejudice
- On Our Way to The Proclaimers in Melbourne
- One Minute Fiction: The Urge
- Our New Fence
- Quiet Time
- Random 6 Word Generator Stories
- Reading About Henry Lawson
- Reading All Day
- Reflections About Social Life for an Over 50s Woman
- Reflections Of The Year Post-Work: What I’d Like to Do Next
- Remembering the Fallen
- Representing My Golf Club at the Meg Evans Plate
- Returning to the Ukulele
- Saturday Morning
- Some Thoughts About The Writing of Annie Ernaux
- Starry Night by Don McLean
- Stuff I Write in My Personal Diaries
- Sunday Stuff
- Teaching Hubby to Knit
- The Cloak of Invisibility
- The Crappy 2020s
- The Day Before Christmas
- The Decline of Eye Contact
- The Roof is Finally Finished!
- Things I Love About Golf
- Three Tawny Frogmouths Sitting In Our Tree…
- Two Days of Golf at 13th Beach
- Typical Comments, Received & Binned on My Blog
- Using a Payphone
- Viktor with a K
- Virginia Woolf’s Rediscovered Novel
- Virtual Tour Day 1: Arrive in Paris
- Virtual Tour Day 2: Onwards to Rimes
- Virtual Tour Day 3: Dijon…the City of Mustard and a Stop at the Beaune Wine Auction
- Virtual Tour Day 4: Heading for the Hills at Chamonix
- Virtual Tour Day 5: Annecy
- Virtual Tour Day 6: Grenoble
- Virtual Tour Day 6: Not Nice, France but…Salisbury, UK
- Virtual Trip to Lyon
- Visit to Victorian State Parliament
- Vivid Dreaming
- Water Leaks
- We Are All Collectors Nowadays (Even Though We Think We Aren’t)
- Well Hello 2023
- What Day is It?
- What To Do More Of….
- What We Really Need To Learn To Be Successful In Life by Robin Good
- What’s Your Own Amsterdam?
- When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go
- Why Are People Unkind?
- Window Shopping
- Work Around The House & Yard
- Work On Our Front Yard
- Writing Practice
- Wuthering Heights
- “If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is”