Goodbye 2023 and hello 2024. I can’t believe how quickly the years go by now. I stopped work in October 2022 and decided not to return to the corporate world of learning and development or social and virtual technologies ever again. That ship has sailed and in some way, when I think about my past […]
Saturday Morning Meandering Thoughts
Bits and Bobs For The Week
I finally finished my seamless jumper! This one was designed using a tutorial on “how to design your own sweater” using any yarn and using some basic mathematics to determine how much yarn I had to use and stitches to cast on. Knitting a square and then determining its tension and with a measuring tape […]
50 Goals to Achieve In Life According to AI
So I continue to ask ChatGPT some questions to see what answers it returns to me for a bit of fun. I’m fast becoming aware that AI is like that nerdy and logical person that we all meet in life that takes things as they are. Never questioning, never taking risks, never enjoying life, never […]
Is Your Life Today What You Pictured a Year Ago?
I use the Jetpack app for all my blogging on my mobile to tap out a post and it has some daily prompts to help people to start blogging. Every day I look at the questions but just write my own thing. Today was different. Let’s give this a go. So here’s the question on […]
Ageing & Mortality
Yesterday I caught up with a long time girlfriend at a shopping centre near her home for lunch and coffee. We met at University attending Geography 101 classes in our first year at Monash University and since then, despite our studies and then, careers going on different paths: hers towards Geology and Education in remote […]
Walking on Grass
Well not so much walking. More like, wanting. Today was a glorious day. I played 9 holes of golf this morning then came home to have lunch and bask in the sun room with all the sunlight coming in. We have just laid the new turf and we are watering it every morning and evening […]
Baking
Today I woke up, got dressed in my gym gear and went for a run. I hadn’t been jogging for over six months and jogged 2 km as a start, then walked until I got my 10K steps in. It felt good as I pondered about starting a new Saturday routine and doing a weekly […]
18 Holes on a Monday Morning…and Counting
It was so weird to stand there on the first hole and tee-off with a group of ladies at the Golf Club this morning. I tried to kerb my feelings of guilt. Everyone else would have been at work – or preparing for work at 8 o’clock. Instead, here I was, driver in hand ready […]
A Quiet Birthday
It’s unfortunate that the last couple of years, covid has disrupted Andrew’s birthday plans. However there’s little we could do except just accept it. After all, what can you do? C’est la vie as the French say. It rained all day yesterday on his birthday. It’s fair to say that Melbournites are sick and tired […]
Time for a Whisky
What Would You Be Doing Otherwise?
Last week I went into the office. It’s been encouraged (although not mandatory), to go into the office on one day of the week when the rest of the team goes in. The intention is to meet with each other in person, socialise and a change of scenery (I guess). I don’t mind going into […]
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 […]
Simple Pleasures
Cup of strong hot tea with milk Playing and chasing the cat every morning Hot buttered (real butter) on toasted sourdough bread First cup of coffee brought to me to bed by Andrew every Saturday and Sunday morning Sunny mornings sitting outside enjoying sunshine with my parents; dad playing classical guitar; mum picking herbs and […]
What My Cat Teaches Me About Myself
I love my cat. Let me introduce you to him. His name is Pud. He is about 5 years old and he’s been with us – his forever home – for the last couple of years. Every day I’m thankful that he’s come into our lives because he’s brought with it so much joy, laughter […]