‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.’ Just about every parent I’ve been reading a book as part of a book club by Kim Scott called Radical Candor: Be a Kick Ass Boss without Losing Your Humanity and admittedly, I’m really struggling to get through this book. I’ve read […]
Frozen
Well we finally got here in the end. We love going to different shows in Melbourne and in 2019, we found out that Frozen, The Musical would be playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre. We booked tickets but the show was constantly being put on hold because of COVID lockdowns and finally, nearly 18 months later, […]
Existential Crisis
I’ve not been “feeling the love” this year. When the new year came in, I was nonplussed about it all. Unlike other years where I used the opportunity to set some new goals and start afresh, this year, it was “meh”. No plans, no goals, no resolutions. Just go with the flow. The thing is, […]
Little Video Snippets
I’ve always loved recording videos and some years back, taking daily videos on what I was learning and experimenting on (using Snapchat) was the way I preferred to communicate. I have written how I used this platform (truth be told, you can actually use ANY platform but I preferred Snapchat as it captured the “time” […]
If Less is More, How are You Keeping Score?
This morning on my daily walk I decided to listen to some French radio streaming from Paris. I use the app Radio Garden on my phone to listen to various French (and some Greek) radio stations. This song came on and I must admit, I’ve never heard of Eddie Vedder so listening to the lyrics, […]
My First Park Run
During the first lockdown in 2020 (we like to call it, Lockdown 1.0), I started to go out every day before work and knock off 10,000 steps. I was walking every day and it got to the point that it became a habit and something which I NEEDED to start my day with every day […]
Continuing with French
I thought I’d write about my plans for French studies for the next few months in 2022. I have written lots over the last couple of years of my journey into language learning and I’m chuffed to say that there is nothing more unbelievable than listening to someone speak in French and….YOU UNDERSTAND THEM! My […]
Happy New Year?
Is it happy? Will it be happy? It seems weird to start my first post of the new year having a bit of a whinge and a cry. After all, we’ve been through the crappiest couple of years and now heading into a new one with the hope of some improvement. (However, at times I […]
Smarter Note Taking
First book I read in 2022 on my new Kindle (a nice gift from Santa, thank you very much) was How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens who also has a great website Take Smart Notes. Why Did I Choose This Book? Some time back in early 2021, I started on the journey of […]