Volunteer course
A big week for professional development with my second course conducted at the Hospice over the last two days. Volunteers obviously are a huge part of our organisation, I have a lot of respect and admiration for these people who freely give their time and skills towards the community. I felt a little sheepish to […]
Grantseekers workshop
On Tuesday this week I drove into Brisbane for a one-day grantseekers workshop organised through work. The slow drive each way in peak hour traffic was an ordeal, but was more than compensated by the knowledge gained from the workshop. It was a good complement to the one-day course attended late last year, and has […]
Andy Warhol exhibition
My friend Lee-Ann won a couple of free tickets to the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art and very kindly invited me along. We were very lucky, the tickets didn’t cover the evening’s music event – but we took a chance, played dumb and were allowed through. Was great, Glenn A […]
Happy 85th Nan
Morning taken up with the work function; afterwards I made my way the short distance to Nan’s place for her birthday lunch. She is looking wonderful but I think we wore her out. Matter of fact I feel quite worn out too! Jo and I gave Nan a joint gift, chosen out by Mum actually […]
Team building day
The Hospice ran a special team building day this morning, a joint effort of staff and management to consider various organisational issues. We looked at five areas – Human Resource Management, Volunteers, Finances, Self-Care and Workplace Behaviour. I sat on the Volunteers table and narrowly avoided having to make the group presentation at the end […]
A day of open hearts
Former PM Paul Keating told an ABC reporter “This is a day of open hearts”. A friend on Facebook wrote – “Johnny Howard was a coward – GO RUDD!” The historic apology read out at parliament today by PM Kevin Rudd was well supported and generally well received. The consensus seems to be that it […]