My boss is a singular personality. Brilliant at big picture thinking, sometimes the minor details escape her attention. Often this results in an amusing story. We are in the process of having a renovation done on our double storey office space. The ultimate aim of the process is to move our workspace upstairs so that […]

Working in the education sector can be rewarding. It can also be frustrating. It’s like most jobs. And, as in all jobs, it’s nice to get a compliment for work well done. This morning someone rang to say that something I’d done was ‘bonza’. No ‘jokeiness’, he meant it sincerely. It was bonza. And that’s […]

I share a house with my good and dear friend Justine. In fact we own the house together – or are in the process of collectively paying back to the bank a great load of money for it. Ownership is some ways away. We love this house. It has character. It also has mice (and […]

These are strange times indeed. Our federal government exhorts us to “be alert” but “not alarmed”. (I didn’t open the parcel, but I do watch TV). Unless, of course, we see something “suspicious”, something “not quite right”, something “un-Australian”. Whilst undertaking my regular work-related duties last week, I spotted something which disturbed me deeply. Picture […]

I have found the World Cup cricket to be incredibly interesting – but largely for completely non-cricket related reasons. I love the uniforms (especially those orange Dutchmen/Dutch Orangemen!), I love the stories behind the teams of the less well known cricketing nations (again the Dutch and my personal favourite, the Canadians), I’ve enjoyed the ‘will […]

It is almost two weeks since Valentine’s Day. We are clearly out of the Valentine’s Day zone – after all, the hearts and flowers have come down in the shops. But how maleable is the time zone for Valentine’s Day? If it attaches to a weekend as it did this year, can the Valentine zone […]

I sit here and ruefully contemplate an uncomfortable case of sunburn. Ruefully?? HA!! (Ouch) More likely, huefully as the upper part of my frame which is exposed to sunlight has attained a pinky glow – something akin to that which is found on a desiree potato if you need a visual pointer. (This, to me, […]

And, as such, probably a substanceless entry… It is not without some prompting and, in recent times, a veiled threat (real or imagined, I’m not sure), that this entry appears. Rather than a finely honed piece of witty and nuanced prose, this entry has become a leap into the dark, hard on the heels of […]