From Paris to Parenthood

My uncle Roger’s 40th birthday party was held at his brother, my uncle Malcolm’s rustic guesthouse on the Gippsland lakes forty years ago this month. I was eleven and dressed […]

I took Rhea, Lara and two of their friends to a Billie Eilish concert a few weeks ago. We all reflected on the experience.   Isolde: What was surprising about […]

It’s been a painful couple of months physically, culminating in a day that saw me working from home last Monday. I started off working from bed at 9am and by […]

Back home after a month away. It was a month of connecting with families – Steve’s at the family holiday house, and mine when Duncan, Becky and their little boys […]

Lara and Rhea went to their first live concert at the age of thirteen, but they don’t play any instruments themselves anymore. We organized for both of them to learn […]

I have been enjoying a couple of new podcasts recently. The first is called Read This, with interviews of writers, many of them Australian. The second is Wiser than Me […]

Steve’s 60th was months in the making: his family and I took about 50 text messages to find a weekend that everyone was able to travel up and surprise him; […]

Before I start a six-month secondment, I’ve had a break from work for three-and-a-half weeks. I started with four days in Noosa enjoying the beach, restaurants, company of my parents, […]