Once I started playing golf, I came to realise that I was a bit of an anomaly. I’m right handed with everything I do except playing bat and club sports. I also noticed this when I was rifle shooting years ago as well as using a microscope in my University years. However back then, it […]
Things I Love About Golf
This morning while driving to the golf club to play another round of 18 holes Stroke competition today, I thought about all the things I love about playing this game. It’s fast becoming my new learning obsession where I’m making time to improve my skill and lower the handicap. I have a long way to […]
The Roof is Finally Finished!
Finally we put up the bamboo roof on the arbour. Originally, I was planning to keep it open so that I could grow a grapevine or wisteria (hence why the structure is so high) but then I realised it’s way too much work for me. I can’t keep going up on ladders to cut it […]
The House of the Dead
I’m back to reading Dostoyevsky. After piss farting around with other novels, I felt compelled to go back to the big ones. I needed another “War and Peace” experience where I had to have a book that I scribbled in, took notes, lived in. I checked my shelves. Brothers Karamazov? Crime and Punishment? I didn’t […]
Our Club Recognised for Women’s Golf
I’m glad that I was lucky enough to go through one of these Women Introduction to Golf Programs by the Woodlands Golf Course. Going through as a cohort of women of all ages, it’s been a chance to learn how to play, get introduced to the other staff and members, have access to the club […]
Quiet Time
It feels a bit awkward to write something here as I feel it’s been a while since I’ve had anything of note to say. Nothing much has been happening in my life and in fact, I don’t mind it at all. There’s a quietness to my days and there are days where I get up […]
Video Book Review of A Start in Life by Anita Brookner
My new review is now up online. I try and do a review every week.
My Medals Arrived
Finally, I got off my backside and ordered a set of replica medals. It’s taken me over a decade to decide to get them. And wear them. Why? My real ones were presented to me at different times in my life when I was in the Navy in front of others. Usually, the Commanding Officer […]
Decluttering My Book Shelves
I guess there’s a point in everyone’s life when they do a major decluttering of the things in their life to mark transition points. I realised that my home office study will need an overhaul with all the text books and reference books that I have collected over the years. As I try and figure […]
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 […]
My Peaceful Place at Rippon Lea
Sometimes when I want a bit of an escape from the boredom of home, I go for a short drive to my “other house”. 🤣 Of course, it’s not my “real” home but it’s an escape from the busyness outside on the streets to smack bang into the middle of Edwardian times. Simpler times. The […]
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 […]
Threads
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 […]
Book Review: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss
Here’s my latest book review by Anita Heiss. Its a timely book as it’s NAIDOC Week and later this year, Australia will have the Referendum for the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Given the amount of nasty comments I’ve been getting on my YouTube channel (most of it unrelated to books), and […]
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 […]
Book Review of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Here’s my latest book review that has gone live on YouTube. My god, what bleakness. If you can’t be bothered watching, I wrote about it in this post. Long and short of it was that I thought Cathy was a cow and I couldn’t wait for Heathcliff to hurry up and die already. I schedule […]
Oh the Sarcasm in Pride & Prejudice
I’ve just finished reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I was never interested in these period novels as I mistakenly thought they’d only be about young women wanting to marry a rich bloke. The tediousness of reading gossip, how much the son of each family makes and who was to marry whom would have reminded […]
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 […]