Administration tips and tricks…

Hello world, I’m back…sort of… I cannot remember when I last updated my blog, but last year was something of a write-off. My mother – over on the other side of the planet – became very ill very suddenly, and three weeks after her cancer...

It’s about time…

Sounds like a political election quote, hang on a second, it was! Who remembers who and when? Who cares? I have not updated my blog for over a year – it’s hard to keep doing something when it seems that there is no purpose to it, however, someone may come...

Now here’s a thought…

Yesterday I went to my graduation ceremony for my Certificate III in Micro Business Operations – the course I did from April to June thanks to the Australian Government who paid for it – and met up with students from the last several courses. I met up with...

Days of Future Passed…

How far has technology come? In my first office job as PA to the manager of a large French bank in Hong Kong, way back in 1976, international communications were via something called a telex – about the size of a small piano (see picture below) – where you had to make...

The good thing about winter…part two

I went to two different networking events today… one was more of an introduction; looking at starting up a new chapter of BNI – Business Networking International – a very structured organisation, and possibly a high pressure system (sounds like a...

The good thing about winter…part one

What’s good about the cold weather? Well, for one thing there are less distractions…this is the time to Get Sorted. Instead of going to the beach, or sitting outside in a shady spot and reading the weekend papers, we can stay warm and dry inside and do all...