In the post, “Some Thoughts on ‘Home’ Pages for Individuals Within Communities and Social Networks” by Doug Belshaw, explains he’s “thinking out loud” in his post on a solution that allows him not to feel overwhelmed when returning to community or social network sites and having to face an onslaught of notifications that cause him […]
Book Review on The Bookseller’s Tale
A new book review is now on on my YouTube channel if you’re interested. This one was fabulous because it was written by a bookseller who collated and curated all sorts of different stories and facts about books, book collectors and book stores. A great read.
Yammer & Viva Engage: Same? Same?
Yes. Okay you can stop reading now. Seriously, it didn’t take long for the new announcement by Microsoft for people to start pinging me at work and on the phone (thankfully, I’m off social media or else my notifications would have been out of control). “Helen, you’re a Yammer fan, what do you make of […]
Knitting Glenan
I love some of the websites of knitting designers. One in particular, is Kate Davies Designs based in Scotland. I’ve written about this pattern, Glenan in another post here in my blog but thought I’d share my progress to date. As you can see it’s ticking along. This is my second project (I’m also knitting […]
Idealist, Be Gone!
If there was a spray I could douse myself in, it would be “Idealist, Be Gone!” I’m at an age where I’m doing a lot of soul searching and made the conclusion that my idealism has failed me. You can’t get to this age and escape it unfortunately as you deal with big problems in […]
My Brother Jack Awards 2022
The MBJ award is a literary prize that our local Council awards to locals of all age groups who live or work in the area. Every year, they award prizes for short story and poetry categories and every year, I make some excuse not to submit an entry. This morning, over a cup of coffee […]
Dreams Are A Whole Level of Crazy
It’s bordering on the ridiculous. Two dreams last night and both like feature films. If I write them down, I could sell them as novels. One I was in a domestic violence situation. The fear felt real, the husband (whom I’ve never seen before in my life but had a striking resemblance to my father […]
I Wore My Pyjamas All Day
Now I have to clarify this. It was Monday. A work day. I worked all day in my pyjamas. I ran meetings, in my pyjamas. It’s a first. I’ve never done this before. What level of “not caring about personal appearance” have I reached? My usual habit is to get dressed appropriately complete with hair […]
Turtles Helping Each Other Out
This is what we need more of – not just turtles but humanity too.
Life Is Like Quadratic Equations
I have no idea why but my dreams have been vivid recently. I’ve also been sleeping deeper than I ever have before. I have no idea why. I know I’m not physically tired, I’m in good health generally and count myself lucky I haven’t caught COVID…yet. However I do find myself finding it harder to […]
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 […]
The National Wool & Sheep Show is ON, Baby! Yeah!
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 […]
You Are Not A Gadget
A new book review is now up on YouTube and it’s Jaron Lanier’s, You Are Not a Gadget written in 2010. In the video I talk about how I read this book as at times it took a while to read due to its writing style and at times, grappling with some of the words […]
I Wasn’t On the Org Chart
Last week we had our monthly Team Sync. That’s an opportunity for our CEO of our Australian team to share news and updates of our company. I look forward to this meeting because it’s a snapshot of what’s happening in the company and also learning about what other teams are up to as most of […]
Sunday Sunday
This morning Andrew arrives home fifteen minutes after he left for the golf course. I thought he has forgotten something which doesn’t set up the day ahead because he becomes cranky for the rest of it. However, the course was closed due to fog. That was my signal to get up from bed, get dressed […]
Gnats Gnats Everywhere
One of the disconcerting things that Andrew tells me about our home, is the ever increasing numbers of pot plants. “Where did that pot plant come from?” He asks as I look away suddenly seeing something else that I must attend to. With the amount of plants in the house, it means there are little […]
Curated Tidbits for The Week
Looking Good Good work is always recognised but it may take a long time(!) says Simon Terry in his post Looking Good. This resonated with me because the last week, I was left off our Organisation Chart and although I was curious about this action, the result was something I wasn’t expecting. Lesson: Always do […]
My French Learning Update
I’ve written many posts here in my blog about how I’ve been learning French then integrating this language into my life as much as possible. It’s immersion by stealth. If you can’t visit or travel overseas to the country, we are spoiled for choice using technology and other ways to ensure we are surrounded by […]
The Happy Life
I finished reading David Malouf’s The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World. He is one of Australia’s greatest writers and I do own a couple of his books. This one was more of an essay into his pondering of happiness drawing upon literature, arts and philosophy to explain it. The last […]
Curated Tidbits for the Week
There’s been some real gems this week in Stephen Downe’s shares or found through constant cross linking within articles he shared. Check out Stephen’s Vision statement – now THAT’s a vision. It’s what I want too! Can we have that please? I beg of you. My head hurts the way the internet is going. It’s […]