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2025/07/11

I haven’t written here in over a month. I don’t remember the last time I’ve done this…. I’ve finally started to print off all my blog posts here into 8 Volumes of printed books each being anywhere from 300 – 450 pages. The deliveries of these printed volumes (from Lulu) are coming in staggered times […]

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Tour of Pentridge Prison

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2025/06/14

Yesterday we decided to go to the other side of town to do a Pentridge Tour. The jail was built in the 1850s and held Victoria’s violent criminals. Growing up, it held some fascination for me as we would drive along Sydney Road in Coburg and you could see its imposing front gate and thick […]

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Continuing Moving My Blog Posts Out of Here

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2025/06/04

One of my 2025 tasks is to copy, edit and paste all my blog posts here onto a Word document so I can close down this blog. It’s a slow process and I’m sure there’s an easier way (I researched some apps but they all cost) so I thought that as I have time on […]

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“Tech Bros Are Ruining Everything”

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2025/06/03

This morning while drinking my coffee I watched this video (in French) which basically had a polyglot answering the question if it was useful to learn a language nowadays. You know, thanks to AI and all that…. It struck me that while watching and listening to what he said, I learned French the hard way. […]

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Walking Elwood Village

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2025/05/31

Yesterday I decided to go for a long walk and drove to Elsternwick Park which is about a ten-minute drive. The park is large and spans many blocks and even has a serene lake and walking tracks. It’s also near Elwood Beach and the Elwood ships which has a quaint village feel. After walking a […]

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Default Thinking: “It’s Not Real”

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2025/05/31

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Goodbye LinkedIn

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2025/05/28

And just like that, I decided to delete my LinkedIn account. After a few years of it being in hibernation, getting back on it, I was overwhelmed by posts talking about AI. Nearly every single post was about this topic. As I had also unfollowed over 4000 of my network, it meant my feed consisted […]

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Meet Griffith

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2025/04/22

Here’s our adorable new furry family member. His name is Griffith and he’s 2 years old and 8 months. It’s been six months since our last cat Pud had crossed the rainbow bridge and I’m not going to lie, I’ve missed him terribly. There isn’t a day that goes by without thinking – or talking […]

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A Trip to Clunes Book Town Festival

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2025/03/23

This weekend was the annual Clunes Book Town Festival. Two days on the celebration of books and story telling in a rustic town of Clunes which is about two hours west out of Melbourne. We headed off nice and early so that we couldn’t be stuck in Saturday traffic and stopped at a service station […]

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Volunteering at Our Charity Event

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2025/03/17

Yesterday our golf club held the 9th Annual Epsom Day, a charity event. I was asked to help out on the day to take photos and help out which I gladly agreed to. It was an early start and you could still see the moon up high in the sky when the first group started. […]

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The Genius or Maniacal Man When It Comes To Technology

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2025/03/12

A recent book review I uploaded (thanks to a recommendation by my friend Fiona who I have some back and forth conversations about AI), was Benjamin Labatut’s The Maniac. I think it’ll be one of the best books I’ll read this year as it’s about how man wants to understand – and overcome – nature. […]

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Ladies Night at the French Film Festival 🇫🇷

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2025/03/12

It’s been a few years since I last attended this particular event at the annual Alliance Francaise Film Festival. So I decided to attend once again this year as it’s been some time that I’ve done something like this for myself. Usually I go to events like this by myself and find people to chat […]

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We Had Our First Book Club Author Event for 2025

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2025/02/24

Last Wednesday I hosted author, Caroline Petit who wrote the book, The Natural History of Love to our golf club. I started and run the Birdies, Bogies and Books Club at our golf club and every month we have a book to read and discuss. Sometimes I source the books from a local library who […]

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How I Take Notes When Reading a Book

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2025/02/23

A couple of weeks ago, I published this video where I shared how I take notes while reading using note books where I journal my thoughts. It’s got many views and it made me realise how it might be an important topic for some people. I was interested in their comments which showed that we […]

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Transferring All My Blog Posts

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2025/02/10

One of my own projects I’ve started is to transfer all the 1498 blogpost onto a Word document (well, to be exact Apple Pages as I don’t use any Microsoft programs anymore). My intention is to print them out into Volumes of Books so in the near future I can archive and pull down this […]

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Creating a Book Club Journal

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2025/02/06

I’ve been on a roll lately creating a couple of journals that are not only creative to make but also a lot of fun. Recently I made a Reading Journal that I could use to write notes every time I read with the intention of selling it on Amazon. However I keep delaying putting it […]

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Our 19th Wedding Anniversary

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2025/02/05

I can’t believe that it’s been 19 years! They go by so quickly. Unbelievable to think that within six months of meeting each other we were married. (When you just know, why silly dally?! 🤣) Every year we celebrate our anniversary by treating ourselves to a dinner at a local restaurant. We decided to try […]

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Extracting 1498 Blog Posts One by One

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2025/01/18

Oh this is going to be painful… This week I finalised the Reading Journal Notebook that I created and ordered a printed proof from Amazon to arrive before I publish it. It’s known as a ‘low content’ book in that there’s not much text in it. This is a surprise for me as I usually […]

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Changing Ways

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2025/01/14

My husband and I are thinking about going overseas next year. We haven’t been on any long holidays (albeit for a weekend away to Inverloch and Castlemaine nearby or a week with family in Canberra) since 2018 (I went overseas to a conference in 2020). So it’s fair to say that we are both hanging […]

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The Moon & Sixpence Book by Somerset Maugham Book Review

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2025/01/13

Here’s the latest video book review which was interrupted by my husband (who does not read my type of books! 🤣)

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