Year: 2019

  • WordCamp Brisbane 2019? What’s a WordCamp?

    It’s Saturday morning and I’m sitting here sipping the first life-saving coffee of the day. As I savour each precious gram of caffeine, my eyes scan Facebook to see how the world fared without me while I slept. Then out of the blue, the words ‘WordCamp Brisbane 2019’ leap from the screen. Yep! WordCamp Brisbane…

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  • Equality? Not Yet!

    Today is officially International Women’s Day. It is a day of taking stock of where we’ve been and where we still need to go. Have women throughout the world gained equality? Not yet – but we are working on it. Australia was: the second country in the world to give women the right to vote…

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  • Where Have All The Teachers Gone?

    A friend posted an interesting Article on Facebook today about the drain of experienced teachers in Australia. So, where have all the teachers gone? They Have Retired! Or at the very least, they’re thinking about it. Years of experience and skills walk out of the classroom every day, leaving a void that is hard to…

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  • The Sewing Fairy!

    Thank God for the Sewing Fairy! I don’t know where they normally hang out, but one of them found their way to my house recently. And I’m so glad they did. It’s kind of a long story…. A couple of weeks ago I was sorting out a container of fabrics and I came across a…

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  • The W to Z of Windows and Doors

    The W to Z of Windows and Doors

    Talk about leaving the hardest to last! The irony is that I learned the alphabet backwards before I was five. I still find it easier to say the alphabet backwards – and to go from the back to the front of a dictionary. So why am I only now working on the W to Z…

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