Here’s the writing and videos I shared in August Blog Posts On Doing Community Service On Giving Feedback Lockdown6.0 Part 2 Fuck, I’m tired (on the tediousness of lockdown) Summer Holidays (and how I’m noticing a change of values misaligned to the country I’m living in) Writing French Stories (On Language Learning) Ideas for How […]
Radio Girl
I’m currently reading a book by researcher David Dufty called Radio Girl: The Story of the Extraordinary Mrs Mac, Pioneering Engineer and War Time Legend (what a cracking title) and the more I read it, the more I believe that Australian film makers MUST make a film or a series about her. Violet McKenzie grew […]
Idiocracy
Ever since watching this movie many years ago where Luke Wilson plays a character thrust into the future where everyone is an idiot, the more I’m beginning to think that Australia is becoming closer to an idiocracy. None more so prevalent with the situations that have been playing out during our lockdowns here with massive […]
If You Disappeared Who Would Care?
This week, Amy Burvall @amyburvall posted this tweet. Initially curious but on reflection, confronting, she makes an excellent point. If you disappeared, who would care? On the same day, my mother calls me to let me know that it’s my sister-in-law’s name day (I’m Greek Orthodox, so Saint Days are celebrated). Mum was calling me […]
Survival Training
One of the television programs I’ve been watching recently is SAS Australia. The SAS is short for Special Air Service an elite arm of the Defence Force focused on covert operations. The program shows a group of celebrities who volunteer to put themselves through the toughest challenges and we also learn their back stories. The […]
Trying New Knitting Techniques
One of the skills I wanted to learn was to be able to knit motifs around the shoulder of jumpers and recently, I came across the designs of knitwear designer June Steingass from Knit.Love.Wool. The reason why I loved these fair isle designs is they remind me of the chunky nordic jumpers and cardigans that […]
Learning About the Secret Code Breakers of World War 2
One of the new rabbit warrens dives I’m doing to kill a bit of time is learning about the Australian code breakers during World War 2. Now I’m fascinated by stories of the past and recently I had found out that our street was the site of an intercept station in 1942 that played an […]
Learning French
By now you would have seen the tweets where I bang on about learning French. Many years ago in the (*cough*) I did six years of French but I failed. What a waste of six years of doing a language at high school! Since then, the only time I spoke the language was three times […]
Writing in a Journal
A funny thing happened while I started writing in a paper journal once again after many years. I’ve become calmer as it allows me to start the day with a positive note rather than reading something on social media and getting anxious about answering tweets and direct messages first thing in the morning. I’ve now […]
Managing Boundaries in Your Work and Home Life
Yesterday I was involved in my second Table Talk for Microsoft Ignite with a group of people and our topic was….. Join CON199 Working from home – How are other people doing it? | #MSIgnite #TableTalk https://t.co/GBa57GeFx1 — Darrell as a Service 🛎 #RE365 #365MCS (@DarrellaaS) September 24, 2020 Darrell Webster (@DaaS) did a great […]