What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? Mmm. 🤔 Good question. For me my daily habit that improves my quality of life is my reading habit. I need to read every day – and not on screens but I mean, physical books. The time I sit or lie down is […]
Dare to Unlead: The Art of Leadership in a Fragmented World
Celine Schillinger wrote this wonderful book recently that I have recommended to everyone I know. It’s a book about a different style of leadership needed in today’s world. When I was reading the book, there were times when I was angry and had to put it down to reflect more. It wasn’t what was written, […]
Did People Actually Work In Offices Like This?
Well yeah they did. On Wednesday morning, I meandered through city streets to go to the office. I was in no rush to get to work. You can snake your way through Melbourne’s laneways, walk through corridors of buildings and out them again, without ever having to walk on one of the city’s main roads. […]
CD Nights
One of the things Andrew and I do are spend our evenings listening to music. We have a massive vinyl and CD collection and we continue to buy CDs rather than subscribe to platforms like Spotify. Sure, we listen to playlists on there but for our own listening pleasure at home, we prefer to choose […]
Scotchman’s Hill Luncheon at Yarra Yarra Golf Course
We have just returned from an excellent long lunch at Andrew’s golf club. He’s been a member of Yarra Yarra for many years and it’s the first time in a couple of years, we have gone to a social function after lockdowns. Admittedly, attending these functions always have a bit of trepidation and anxiety knowing […]
Photos from my Park Walk
It’s Saturday afternoon but it feels like a lazy Sunday. I’ve been in my pyjamas all day just reading my novel and doing crossword puzzles and napping. At 3pm I decide to go for a slow walk to the park. Things seem to take a gargantuan effort for me to do sometimes. I decide I […]
Escaping
There are many times in recent years that I’ve wanted to simply escape from the world. To live in my own bubble and not have to deal with what’s “out there”. To hide away, go anywhere where there aren’t people to see, choices to be made or any demands put on me. Where I’m the […]
Hibernating LinkedIn & Moving My CV Here
I have written about hibernating in my recent post LinkedIn Gone to Sleep which is a way I’m managing, well, let’s just say, filtering and directing all enquiries to come through my site here. About a couple of years ago, I used a specific code to Unfollow Everyone on LinkedIn and wrote about it in […]
Weekly Rapts for Week of Sunday 14 August 2022
Welcome to Weekly Rapts Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more about […]
What’s My Scene?
The Hoodoo Gurus is/was a band that was huge in the 80s, my formative years and this song in particular, has stuck with me for my entire life. If someone was to ask me what song personifies ‘me’. It’s this. It struck me on the way home in the car today, that when this song […]
Au Revoir Tristesse
I’ve recently finished reading Viv Groskop’s book Au Revoir Tristess: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature and loved it. It’s got me back into my reading mojo! Here’s my review of it and below it are direct quotes from the book that made an impact on me. Marcel Proust There is something very wise, almost […]
Friday Friday
I had a lovely day today despite the weather being grey and miserable. I headed down to Station Pier to spend the day with a friend walking and catching up with news. Despite my photos below looking nice and sunny, the water and skies all blended into one sludge of grey. There was no wind […]
Stroopwafels On My Doorstep
It could be a song couldn’t it? 🤣 Tonight, I went out for a bit and when I came back, I saw a small parcel at the door. I open it up and there were Stroopwafels! They are my favourite Dutch treat. Thank you Lior for sending this lovely gift. I love it! I’m going […]
What I Should Have Done By Age 53
This morning I was reading my Feedly feeds and checking out the news headlines and saw a post Ignore Those Posts of What You Should Have Done By Age 30 and they referred to this gem of a tweet which melted the tweet sphere. As you know I’m not on Twitter now, so that’s about […]
Fiction Writing
One of the things I’ve been doing in my spare time is writing fiction for the local council My Brother Jack awards. As an annual award to encourage writers in the local community, this competition has been running for many years and it’s always been at the back of my mind to submit an entry […]
Angry
There are days where I’m filled with rage. Today was one of them. Of course, I know the reason is that it’s all hormonal at this time of my life. Another part of me is so bloody tired having to justify everything all the time. I can’t take the bullshit anymore. I mentioned to a […]
First Carbon, Now Silicon
I majored in Organic Chemistry (with Honours) and I’ve only just realised that the element just below Carbon is Silicon….and that’s how the world is going. One shift down in the Periodic Table of Elements, yet one big massive move for mankind. I stumbled upon this mesmerising video today inspired by Yuval Noah Harari. What […]
Flaubert: Quotes for Today’s World
I’m reading this book by Viv Groskop called Au Revoir Tristesse and it amuses me. The author, a Francophile who has spent years learning the language, living in France and reading their classics in French (an inspiring goal for me if I ever get to that point), summarises the lessons learned that each of these […]
Enjoying Puzzles
Recently when I was at the supermarket doing the shopping with my husband (a rare occurrence as I hate supermarkets and it’s the only time we get angry with each other because he’s anal about how food is stacked correctly in the trolley), I decided to buy a new puzzle book. Now we have heaps […]
How to Use Stories in Viva Engage for Business
Recently Microsoft announced the rebranding of Yammer (Microsoft’s Enterprise Social Network) to Viva Engage and I wrote my thoughts about this in my blog post Yammer & Viva Engage: Same? Same? The Stand Out New Features are Storyline and Stories Although early days yet, two of the stand out features in this platform are Storyline […]