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My French Update
There’s a crêperie nearby that serves these French crepes and galettes made with buck wheat that employs French speakers so you can be guaranteed to hear French being spoken every time you go there. On Friday morning, I didn’t have anything planned for the day (except for 9 holes of golf later that afternoon) so […]
Learning to Crochet
This week I’ve been learning a new skill (thanks to YouTube) and I fell in love with it. My friend Renee who lives in Spain and is a fluent French speaker (we chat in French every week), recommended Yolanda Figueroa’s YouTube channel where she runs crochet tutorials of tops that she’s created. The garments are […]
Mouldy Lemons
I head over to my parents house with a stomach ache. I’ve eaten something again that doesn’t agree with me and I have no lemons. I greet my parents and head into their kitchen to pick a lemon from the fruit bowl. “I’m just going to juice a lemon as I have a stomach ache,” […]
When Dreams End
One of the worst things in the world is to wake up from a nice dream. At that moment, you feel like something lovely has been denied to you and no matter what you do, you can never go back to it. Last night I dreamt I was in New York and I was there […]
I Permanently Deleted Twitter
I deleted Twitter on Saturday. I sat there on the kitchen table and clicked ‘Permanently Delete My Account‘. It was a weird feeling especially since I’ve been on it since 2007. After the archived tweets arrived in my inbox, it was time to delete Twitter once and for all. Under the Tweets section or the […]
Curated Tidbits
Beware of Facebook’s Metaverse ? It’s why I detest the concept of Meta being used by Microsoft for the workplace. Virtual reality isn’t bad per se but when it goes to the hands of the few who start to use it for nefarious purposes, that’s where it goes to crap. Like pretty much everything else. […]
Love and Anarchy
There’s some tripe on Netflix isn’t there? At times I need to put something on tv that I need to do some mindless knitting to. If I’m reading a pattern and have to be careful with my stitches, I’ve learned I must never watch a foreign film with subtitles or risk losing the entire meaning […]
Reading Jaron Lanier
I’m reading a couple of books by virtual reality pioneer, Jaron Lanier at the moment. The first one is You Are Not a Gadget and the second is Ten Reasons To Delete Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. They’re not the reason why I’m getting off social media as I’ve noticed that once we make […]
Block Block Block Delete
Well it’s started. About 18 months ago, I quit Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. When I say quit, I meant that I simply just left it. Deleted the apps in my phone and didn’t revisit them. In the last few months, through duress, I was part of a French speaking group on Facebook so went back […]
Reminiscing
Back in 1978, a year of my childhood was spent living above The Albion Hotel on Lygon Street Carlton. My father was a publican and at the time, he was managing this pub that was a notorious place for students, “musos” and petty crims. “You could get stabbed for breathing in there” I was shielded […]
In My PJs
Today was a lazy Sunday. It was too cold and wet to contemplate going outside. I even haven’t been out to put the bins on the nature strip ready to be picked up tomorrow. I’ve been THAT lazy. Also, I haven’t been out for a decent long walk or jog for over a month having […]
New Knitting Skills
Sometimes it’s so easy to fall into habits that we don’t change over time resulting in becoming comfortable or even stagnant in our skills. For example, I like to cast on new stitches in knitting as if I’m knitting them. That is, I don’t use any fancy cast on methods or use anything other than […]
Yarn Stash
There’s something about yarn that gives me comfort. As a knitter. The more I knit, the more yarn I start to accrue over the years. Sometimes I buy it and never knit with it as I change my mind, other times people give me their stash. Most of all though, it’s yarn I have bought […]
Open Horizons Exhibition
Today I headed into the city with mum to see the Open Horizon Greek Artefact Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. It was the first time in about 2.5 years my mum had come into Melbourne and indeed travelled on a train so it was nice to see her enjoying herself. It was my little birthday […]
Glimmers of Hope
It’s hard to believe that we have reached June already. Where does the time fly? It’s been a really weird year for me so far. Where 2020 was all about fear and anxiety of the unknown thanks to the pandemic, 2021 was tedium most of which was in lockdown unable to see anyone or my […]
Notifications Pinging
Early morning my phone started to ping like a thing possessed. Usually I have all my notification sounds turned off. Everything for work – off. Everything for social media – off. Most of the time, I get to my messages when I pick up the phone and see them sitting in there. My daily life […]
The Tower of Babel
It’s hard to believe that I’ve spent a majority of my working life trying to help organisations and people see the value of peer learning and community building and at times, I feel I’m constantly banging on the same old drum without having achieved anything. To be fair, that’s only the way I think. If […]