Finding it difficult to settle at my desk this afternoon, I decide that it might help if I go for a walk and get a snack. Which I duly do. It is sunny, it is lovely, I buy my treat and I return. From a side office comes the plaintive cry: “What did you get?” […]

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 […]