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 […]
Book Review: Look At Me by Anita Brookner
Here’s my latest book review. It’s another book by Anita Brookner which is my 5th read of hers this year. I love how she writes and her subject matter. I would say that this book is one of her better ones with big themes such as loneliness, servitude, popularity and jealousy.
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 […]
My Golf Training Plan
I’ve decided that golf is going to be “my sport”. I love it so much. It gives me the endorphins at the end of a good round but it also has some crashing lows. In effect, it’s now going to be another skill to add to my repertoire. This means that like anything, practice does […]
Book Review: Nailing It by Rich Hall & Some Ideas about My YouTube Channel
Time for a new book review that I just hit ‘publish’ on in YouTube. After Zamyatin and Dostoyevsky, Rich Hall’s was a welcome change. I also tried Bundaberg Rum for the first time in my life (I’m more a G&T person than rum….) Where Am I At with YouTube? On another note, I checked my […]
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 […]
Achievement Unlocked: I Speak French
In the last few months, I changed from one University of the Third Age French class to another. It was unfortunate that I left the first one even though I enjoyed the class however, it reached a point that I realised I needed MORE conversation than grammar classes. Don’t be under the illusion that you’re […]
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 […]
Book Review: WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin
This one was a doozy. It’s the book touted as the one that inspired George Orwell to write 1984 and in fact, there’s a lot of similarities. Written in 1921 it’s set in the 26th century in a dystopic panopticon society which works on Taylorism and has banned art and any individuality of any sort. […]
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. […]
Writing Practice
I’ve discovered a site called Reedsy which has writing prompts that I could use to practice writing short stories. They have weekly contests where you could submit your story if you want to but I don’t think I’ll be doing that all the time. Instead, I’ll use the prompts to let my mind wander and […]
Review of House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky
I’ve been reading Dostoyevsky this year and he’s one of my favourite authors. I think I’m turning into a book snob 🤣 because 2023 has been a year of some brilliant reads of literary fiction that when I pick up a current popular read book, I get bored. If a book isn’t making me toss […]
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 […]
Friday Afternoon Golf
Started the drinking on the 11th hole this afternoon during a social round.
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 […]
A Run in the Park
Here’s the latest book review that has been published on my YouTube channel this morning. It reminded me of the time I tried the 5K app which in some way, helped me through a time of difficulty when we were in lockdown. I share my story here. However you can also read it below. My […]