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16 June 2024 by Helen Blunden 2 Comments

If You Can’t Travel to Paris, Go To Bendigo in Regional Victoria

It was a very long time since I had a school excursion so on Saturday, my French School organised a day trip out to regional Victoria, the old gold town of Bendigo to see the French Impressionism Art Exhibition of Life in Paris during 1880-1925. And shock horror, we were all going to go out […]

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Filed Under: French Tagged With: 2024, Art, Art Exhibitions, Australia, Belle Epoch, Bendigo, French, Impressionism, Train Travel, Travel, Victoria

16 July 2022 by Helen Blunden Leave a Comment

Photos From the Wool Show

I’m sitting up in bed looking out towards this window waiting for the rest of the house to wake up and get ready for the day. It’s a quiet Saturday morning at a regional town of Elphinstone which has a general store, a pub, a cemetery and some homesteads dotted about. We are staying here […]

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15 July 2022 by Helen Blunden Leave a Comment

The National Wool & Sheep Show is ON, Baby! Yeah!

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Sitting here at 0615 on a Friday morning. Ahead of me a 2 hour drive to Bendigo to attend the National Wool and Sheep Show, the biggest in Australia. It’s a chance of anyone who is a lover of sheep and wool to come along and see the different industries. My favourite? The yarn stalls […]

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Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: 2022, Bendigo, July, July 2022, knitting, Sheep

18 August 2018 by Helen Blunden

This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for July 2018

Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for July 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day.  It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]

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Filed Under: Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Adopt and Embrace, August, August 2018, Bendigo, IABC, LearningNow TV, LearnTech Day, Snap Stories, Snapchat

17 July 2017 by Helen Blunden

This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 10 July 2017

Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning (that is, what I’m learning and how it applies to work).  I use Snapchat as my Working Out Loud tool that captures my thoughts and reflections during the day in a chronological order.  I also use it as a channel to inform, educate and inspire others […]

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Filed Under: Vlogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2017, Bendigo, Facebook, Instagram, July, July 2017, Network Builder Coaching, PKM, Snap Stories, Snapchat, Trello, Twitter Lists, Wool Show

2 September 2015 by Helen Blunden Leave a Comment

Social Learning at the National Sheep Show in Bendigo

Many of the readers of this blog know that I love knitting.  It’s one of my long time passions that I have and a craft that is relatively self taught through many years of trial and error.  Every year, knitters from around Australia look forward to the National Wool and Sheep Show that takes place […]

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