100 Women of Influence 2016

Newsflash: I am truly thrilled to be able to announce that yesterday I was listed in the 2016 list of 100 Women of Influence in Australia, in the SOCIAL ENTERPRISE & NOT-FOR-PROFIT category. The category winners and overall winner will be announced during an event to be held in the Sydney Town Hall on 27 October 2016. So many are…

Australia

Todays blog is just a picture, to give my global friends who have not yet been to visit Australia an idea of how big it is! We don’t generally ride kangaroos to school or have them running around in the city street, except in our capital city Canberra, where the city is set amongst a…

The folly of wearing thermals

Needing to wear thermals or long johns and undercoats is reasonably unusual in Australia, unless you visit the snow, and then the insulation is usually built into the ski clothing, but here in the UK, even though it is Spring, I have needed to wear them. I have felt the need to wear thermals especially…

Walkmans and change

Firstly some of you might ask, what is a Walkman? For you really young readers, it is the original version of the iPod or MP3 player… Ok, you now might ask, What do Walkmans have to do with change? Many years ago when the Walkman arrived in Australia, I felt it was the height of rudeness…