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 […]
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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 […]
Annie Ernaux: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022
I recently read, A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux and I was floored by her writing style. It reminded me of the type of writing I have been doing in my journals since the age of 15 where I have captured snippets of my life as an anxious teenager, a curious but sensible adult and […]
From the Diaries: What is Your Most Overrated Virtue?
I’ve been writing in journals since I was 15 and have my entire life and reflections written in thousands of pages over the years. It’s been exactly a year since I left working and decided to go through some of the pages I had scribbled to review how much I have progressed in that time. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Reading About Henry Lawson
I’m reading about the life of Australia’s best poet and short story writer, Henry Lawson by Grantlee Kiera and it’s a fascinating read into a man who battled deafness, depression and alcoholism but wrote some of the best poems about Australia’s battlers. I had read his poetry at school and also later in life but […]
Grand Sale! Selling My Books on eBay
I have to say that I have a decent library of books collected over the years. During my working years, I spent a lot of money on buying decent text books and reference books on topics related to my field in Learning and Development. However, they are now taking up space on my shelves where […]
Being Asked Questions About Microsoft
It’s been nearly eight months since I left work and I don’t miss it at all as I’ve kept myself occupied with more meaningful endeavours. Lots of sleep, golf, knitting, reading and learning French mainly. Exploring writing, catching up with friends and family, playing with the cat. Everything but work. In some way, I feel […]
How Can You Read So Many Books?
A friend of mine sent me this snapshot of a tweet last night and asked if my husband and I could provide an answer. As I’m not on social media anymore (and likely not to ever get back on it), I answered her directly (and not the tweet obviously). My average for books read every […]
Hotel Bars
When I stay home all day, there are times I put on the big screen, YouTube videos of big bands like the Glen Miller Band or Jazz Bar music. I then sit back on my husband’s chair, (it swivels around), with my feet on the stool then close my eyes and just let my feet […]
Artificial Intelligence For Good
I’ve been going down the rabbit warren of AI and realised that I’m reading and seeing more of the bias in these machines versus the good they can do in the world. After all, most of us are using them in our everyday lives just to function through our devices, calendars, maps etc. I wanted […]
A New About Me Page
Today I did a few things to update my old “brand” (is that the dreaded word we use now?). Now that I’m not working and unlikely to ever go back into the corporate world doing what I did before, I realise that I have no formal “occupation” as such. I have described myself as “semi […]
Work On Our Front Yard
Landscaping out front yard has commenced! Before Covid, we made the decision to completely relandscape our back and front garden and to do some big maintenance jobs around the house foregoing any leave or holidays here or abroad at least until 2026. Roof repairs, tree and root removals, major site drainage (to offset the huge […]
Reading All Day
Now that I’m not working anymore, I have so much time in the day that is spent doing pretty much nothing at all. I have days where I plan for golfing, French studies, going for long walks, house work and helping my parents with their errands too. However there are other days where nothing is […]
My First Ukulele Performance
Another first for me today. The University of the Third Age in my local area had an Open Day today. The U3A is on the grounds of an old high school that our local council now provides for various community groups to meet. For example the old school gymnasium is where dancing, yoga, gym and […]
Catch-22 for Organisations
In this post I write about the links of this book by Joseph Heller called Catch-22 to the working world.
New Golf Clubs
Last month I ordered a new set of customised golf clubs. I had myself fitted for a range as my old set was over 15 years old. Like everything, new technology means that sporting equipment like golf clubs improve over the years. I decided to order the ultra new Callaway Paradym X Driver which they […]