Last night Andrew and I went to see this play by Tennessee Williams. It was his first play that rocketed him to success where later in life he wrote plays like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Street Car Named Desire. This production was from our local theatre company. I like going to these […]
When You Can’t Travel…
Just sample produce from another country you’d like to visit. My French 🇫🇷 classes started again today. I always enjoy the classes at My French Journey in Hampton because Nathalie makes them so interesting. The term goes over ten weeks and our teacher also organises various events such as Sunday walks, book clubs and even […]
Bits and Bobs From This Week
I met up with a girlfriend for a long walk around South Melbourne. It’s one of my favourite places to walk as the houses and terrace homes are all old and beautifully maintained. Some of the places have the blue signs at the front (like those around London) to learn the history of the place. […]
Chicago
Andrew and I went to the theatre Friday night to see Chicago. We are fans of musical theatre so all the big Broadway shows and productions on in Melbourne are must sees for us. Over the years, we have seen too many to mention. We are lucky to live in a city that has such […]
Enrolling into Creative Writing Stage 1 Course with the Australian Writers Centre
This week, I decided to finally take the plunge and enrol into a course with the Australian Writers Centre. I had been eyeing this course for some time but made plenty of excuses not to do it. Frankly, my money could be better spent on things around the house that need improvement or fixing (plumbing […]
Using Scrivener
Yesterday while Andrew was using the home office to work, I took the laptop into the kitchen and sat at the table with it. I pondered what to do on it. Should I surf YouTube? Should I work on my YouTube channel Life Lessons From Books? Should I write a short story? What? I decided […]
Vivid Dreams Once Again
I don’t know why people say you dream in black and white. I can assure you I dream in full splendorous colour and like I’m watching a film. Last night I dreamt that I was working for some start up design company. Their offices were all clean bare pinewood panelled, minimal layout and sleek furniture. […]
Book Review of Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
Here’s the latest book review that has been published on my YouTube channel called Life Lessons From Books. I love the writing of Coetzee and I’m collecting all his books as I find them in my travels through second hand book stores. I’ve got another one that will be published soon called Diary of a […]
Getting Rid of My Books
I have so many books that I’ve run out of book shelves. Books are now stacked in neat piles on the floor, desks and coffee tables. Buying more shelves is out of the question as there’s no more free wall space either. I have books that are over forty years old. Mainly non-fiction (as I […]
Watching the Magpies
There’s a family of magpies that live in one of the trees in our yard. Every day we see five or six of them ripping into our lawn searching for worms. Andrew gets irate as he’s spent hours preparing this lawn , fertilising, coring and watering it. Over winter it’s going to go dormant. He […]
New Book Review: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Here’s a book that has just been published on my YouTube channel “Life Lesson From Books”. I read it over a month ago now. (All my videos are recorded soon after I read and take notes of the book then edited and uploaded into a scheduled to be published list in certain days. This allows […]
New Book Review: Ask the Dust by John Fante
Here’s the latest video book review I uploaded. For any Charles Bukowski favs, you might like John Fante.
Collecting RATs
I’m over the bulk of the worst of COVID symptoms although I’m still coughing and have a runny nose. I STILL don’t have a sense of smell or taste now over a week and I can’t wait to get this back again. There are also days where lethargy come over me and I feel wiped […]
Argh. Now Husband Has Covid
It’s never ending isn’t it? Argh. I’ve now cancelled our trip to the Clunes Book Festival which I was looking forward to all year. Two days of book talks, book fairs on the streets and all the seven bookstores of that town open to public. Bloody hell. 🤬 Oh well. On the plus side, my […]
I Started a Book Club
Late last year, I came up with an idea to start a book club for our golf club and put the idea out there. Here’s Tiger reading this month’s book, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath👇 Well anyway, I was surprised with the response. I had 24 people who were interested and out of that, […]
Playing Sandhurst Golf Course
This is a post I finally got around to writing. I’m lying in bed coughing out a lung then painfully swallowing, what feels like tiny razor sharp blades in my throat, as I caught my first ever bout of Covid. During the day, I’m well enough to sit up in bed, read a bit, watch […]
Finally Caught COVID
It took some years but I finally caught it. I was holding onto the hope of never getting it but unfortunately, it happened. I’ve had all my boosters, I tried to keep as safe as possible but now, it’s everywhere. It didn’t help being in an overcrowded classroom last week when there were a couple […]
Come Book Shopping With Me
When we were in Canberra last week, I had an opportunity to visit book stores in the city. Some general and others more specific related to the galleries and other tourist locations I visited. I had heard that there was a great bookstore (and also a yarn shop) in Manuka, a trendy and more up […]
A Typical Evening Scene
Evenings at ours means a lot of time spent on the sofa watching television, reading books or listening to music. Tonight as we listened to a CD by Suede, I shared the sofa with Pud who had fallen fast asleep with my foot on his belly. It’s pretty relaxing to do this. I quite enjoy […]
Personality Tests
Many years ago when I was in the corporate world, every team bonding activity involved some kind of personality test. These tests evaluated our preferences against others in our teams and shed light on how we prefer to lead and work with others but also come to understand our own strengths and weaknesses. (I’ll say […]