Sunday Blog 6 – 3 October 2021 “It will involve a free trip to Sydney”, I told my daughter. “All we have to do is air our dirty linen on national television.” Luckily, I had her at “Free trip to Sydney.” Clearly, I’m writing about long, long ago, in a pre-Covid world of 2018. Somebody …
Category Archives: Sunday Blog
Last days of Cobb Street?
Sunday Blog 5 – 26 September 2021 Cobb St is my family home built in the 1960s. The photo above is how it looked in 1963 when my father was just getting started on six decades of home handyman projects. I found a journal entry from this time last year, dated 26 Sep 2020: “It’s …
Taking flight…
Sunday Blog 4 19 September 2021 I have a habit of taking notes while listening to people speaking, which means I can end up with scraps of paper with random scribblings which no-one but myself can decipher. I found just such a scrap this week while cleaning my work desk. It was from the keynote …
Drama Triangles
Sunday Blog 3. 12th September 2021 – winnowings from this week’s readings This week there have been several books on the go, but Martha Beck’s latest book The Way of Integrity has been the one that has dominated, both in written and audio form. If you have never read anything she has written, you might …
Father’s Day
Sunday blog 2. 5th September 2021 I am at my mother’s house on the first Father’s Day in Australia since my father died. I am here to oversee the ritual of a roast in his honour which will soon be in the oven. We will gather in several hours to eat the roast. It’s not …
Turning pro?
Sunday blog 1. 29th August 2021 Your average audio book takes between 6 and 12 hours to listen to. Think about it. Imagine if you could sit down over a weekend and talk into your voice memo for ten hours and knock out a book. Technically, you could, but in reality, books can stretch over …