Annual leave

First day of holidays, it’s been a year since my last lot of leave. Mentioned this to Ros yesterday and she was surprised, said it wasn’t healthy. She agreed the year had been full on but from now on hols every six months. H. and I drove into Ipswich this morning, the plan was to […]

K or k?

In reference to ‘thousands’, I was wondering recently whether the correct usage was “k” or “K”. It seems that it is entirely subjective, but lower case “k” is the common usage when denoting thousands of dollars. During my research into the question I came across an interesting discussion on mathforum.org about this, and encountered usage […]

Drummin!

Yesterday I went along to first lesson of a five week drumming course held by Michi Henning and Linda Nathan of Brisbane. A big crowd – about 20 of us, biggest class ever apparently, and lots of fun. Drumming just about non-stop for an hour and a half, at the end I felt like I’d […]

Physical activity

Went for a walk today with Mum, Liam, Mikaylah, Alyeisha and a few of the dogs. Felt really good to work up a bit of a sweat, it’s been a while since I’ve been on a good long walk. I had fears that Ebby would misbehave terribly and pick fights with Mum’s dogs, but we […]

Last ten years and 2010

Ten years ago I’d been a wife for four years, and had just been made redundant from twelve years of banking; my severance helped pay off the house and bought a new Mazda. Scored employment as a web designer which later evolved to admin manager. Since then: hubby and I separated for 18 months, then […]

Christmas delivery

Wish I’d had my camera with me yesterday as I was driving to work. I saw an Australia Post postie delivering mail with a santa cap on her head 🙂