I stumbled upon this short video taken in 1901 of children seeing a camera for the first time in their life. It’s fascinating to watch this snippet. I watched it repeatedly as I’m always interested and intrigued of how people dressed and carried themselves in the past. You can see the snippet below. What I […]
A New Fitness Routine
Fitness for me is never consistent. I’ve never been someone who sticks to one thing and does it well. I like to swap and change depending on the moods and the seasons. The good thing is that I’ve been exposed to many and varied sports and interests. The bad thing is that I could never […]
Silent Screaming
In the last few years, I’ve been having more nightmares. Times in my deep sleep where I dream that I know I’m sleeping but need to get myself out of danger but no sound comes out of my mouth. In dreams, there are only silent screams. Last night, it happened again and Andrew had to […]
We Have Light
It’s fascinating to see how much we get used to a situation and then fail to change it because it seems bothersome to do so. For years, we didn’t replace all the light globes in our dining and lounge rooms for whatever reason. Instead I used lamps or lit candles, or just went to bed […]
That Time
Today I spent the better part of 15 minutes wandering in and out of rooms, checking on too and inside drawers, going through bags trying to find one pair of reading glasses. I’ve got two pairs but for some reason, I misplaced both. This seems to be happening more frequently as I enter rooms then […]
Community Roles Coming At Me
It’s 3:11 am. I was tossing and turning thinking of the most weird things. Namely, Bligh and the Rum Rebellion of 1808 in the penal colony of New South Wales. I had been thinking that if I time travelled back to this time, and met the man himself (who let’s face it, copped two mutinies […]
Weird Client Story No.1
Many years ago, I had a client who was off his face on drugs. Initially I had no idea that he was affected as he just seemed out of it. There was a lot of weirdness about him. I’d end up waiting for him to rock up to appointments made; he’d forget or he’d call […]
Grim Melbourne
Today I worked in the city. It’s the time of the year where it gets dark early. There are dead leaves on wet and oily city streets underfoot and you need to be careful where you step so you don’t slip. People are rushing to get to work or to get home. All in the […]
Princess Mary of Denmark
I watched this documentary today celebrating Princess Mary’s 50th birthday. Everyone loves Mary. I remember the whole media story when her romance with Frederick became public after the Sydney Olympic Games (that’s where they met). At the time, it was recounted as the “perfect love story” and given that in my younger years, I had […]
I Love Hats
I have a head for hats. If someone asked me to name one positive think about my body, it would be my head for hats. That’s about it really. Everything else is pretty much take it or leave it. Okay. Maybe my straight nose, my eyes (albeit myopic) and, umm…nah, that’s about it. That’s a […]
Election Time
It’s election month in Australia and it’s a crazy time. On my name day, 21st May, Australia goes to the vote to determine the new political party that will govern us. I don’t take this responsibility lightly. I’ve always been someone who valued that we can vote in relative peace and that we can have […]
Living Overseas Is Now an Option
Yesterday after six months of going back and forth with Greece, we finally organised to have the paperwork submitted to the Greek National Land Registry Office. The Greek government has recently urged people who have any land to register it formally through the Cadastre. If you don’t do this, the government will seize the land. […]
A Curiosity Journey
Yesterday Orgdimension on Twitter sent this fantastic short film clip. Watch it and test your awareness of what’s happening on the screen then determine how much you pick up what’s going on. When I first saw the clip, I was amazed they did everything in one take. (That was the first thing I noticed because […]
Oh What Would I Do?
I’ve got about a couple of extra years in me to continue working in this capacity. No rhyme or reason for it but I think I’ve just reached that age where you don’t need to prove anything to anyone anymore. Besides, I’ve seen and worked with all different tasks and projects that over the years […]
The Home Office
We have a small room in the house that was classified as a bedroom but it’s quite tiny. You certainly can’t fit bed in there but it’s perfect for a study or home office. That room was where we used to go into once in a blue moon to sit at the computer and check […]
Saying No
One of the things I’ve started to reflect upon and change over time is to stop saying “yes” to some things requested of me especially when they are not beginning to align anymore to my needs. In the past, I was always happy to agree to do work and much of it unpaid which really, […]
Goethe Quotes to Live By
I was first introduced to Goethe, the German writer, when I was in Germany last year. Every German I met seemed to mention him (and poet Schiller) in daily conversations so I thought it was high time I got with the program and learned more about him. I set off to see Goethe House as […]
My Top Ten Learning Tools for 2021
It’s that time of the year again when Jane Hart’s (@C4LPT) Top 10 Learning Tools survey is out. You can put your vote in on her Learning Tools website and voting doesn’t close until August this year. I’ve been submitting my learning tools every year and I love to see how they’ve evolved over the […]
Exploring Your Local Area
It’s Sunday and I am taking it easy today recovering from a late night out last night. At my age, I can’t spring back the next day if I don’t have my full 8 hours of sleep every night and every time we stay out past our bed time, it just takes that little bit […]
A New Skill to Add To My Repetoire
Following on from my recent obsession with Escape to the Chateau series which has revived my craft obsession to try out all sorts of different crafts in an effort to get off the screen, off the socials and actually DOING stuff with my hands, I asked my mother to teach me how to sew. My […]