Category: Musings

My workplace is across the road from a lovely park and has a nice view of the city. I go there toward the end of my work day and let my mind wander as I follow the paths, admiring the view and glorying in nature’s wonders.

First week back at work after a break, even a short one, is always busy but the past few days have been especially so. Greater Brisbane went into another lockdown due to a further community transmission of COVID-19. Touch wood, it seems to have been contained. On Wednesday I had the class based delivery of […]

Having just enrolled in business studies, that will take me the best of four years to complete; taking on the company secretary role in addition to my existing employed role as business manager; I seem to be forever trying to fill a gap in my life. A gap of loneliness, a gap of purpose. I […]

Attended first discussion group at the Governance Institute of Australia offices in Brisbane yesterday, lead topic was Board Agendas and from this fed many related discussions and experiences on how company secretaries deal with the business of board meetings. The group was diverse and interesting. There were two or three from large ASX companies, smaller […]

It’s a rainy afternoon and H. is home and we are both enjoying the quiet, unhurried interval of an easy weekend at home. I am reading old British crime novels on my Kindle, and hubby is at the other end of our large living room enjoying Raiders of the Lost Ark on our amazingly big, second-hand flat screen TV. […]