Cowboys,Trucks, Beer & Whiskey

Driving back to Maple Ridge from doing a bit of sightseeing just outside of Vancouver, I’m listening to a country music channel on the radio. Country music is huge in this part of the world. The lyrics don’t seem to change much from song to song or artist to artist. It’s Cowboys, Beer, Whiskey, Daddy’s…

What I’m Looking For

I’ll set the scene – I remember turning 30. No big deal but my 20’s were done and my world was now focused on a very young family, paying a mortgage, paying bills, putting food on the table and everything in between that makes a young somewhat immature guy grow up pretty quickly and between…

Attention – Who Really Cares

Around May of this year our Council closed the pool I’ve been swimming at for the past four or five years. Yes it’s great that Council is going to update and enhance the facility. It’s not so great this will take two years. In the final weeks I wondered what would happen to the elderly…

ADJUSTING

So here we are. Day two, it’s mid morning and we’re sitting on the deck of a small building that resembles a Yurt. Our Yurt goes by the name of ”Air”. “Air” is located in a rainforest in Northern NSW and being winter with little sun being able to penetrate the bush canopy, it’s pretty…

Resilience and Ancient Philosophy

I’ve spent a fair bit of time reading more than usual over the last twelve months. I read a few books by John Grisham (always a great fictional read) and the classic “Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens which was very enjoyable and gave me a further insight into the French Revolution – not…

Where To From Here

It’s been an interesting couple of months. Amongst the frustrations of the Covid pandemic, I lost Manstheory somewhere in cyber space. Technology support is a funny thing. The techie people talk to you like you know what’s going on. Just do this, then that, download this, contact them, redirect your server, do three handstands then…

Knowing Your Truth

Our dog passed away this week. Although she was 15 years and 3 months old, her passing was sudden and relatively unexpected. We’d spent a quarter of our lives with her. For our grown up children it was more like 50%. She was not only our pet but unquestionably a valued member of our family.…

Keep the Noose Loose

Interesting month just passed. I took two weeks off work with the intention of pushing on with completing a list of tasks I’d set myself around the house. Add a game of golf and get my annual health checkup. I’d accumulated a lot of leave, it was a way to get these tasks progressed so…

A Positive 2021

A follow up guest blog from Andre on the year that was 2020. Well 2020 was a tough gig for everyone, no doubt about it! From state border closures to the City of Melbourne being locked down, everyone made a sacrifice in their own way. If nothing, we all learnt how to endure the tough…

We All Need Downtime

Knowing when to pull up and catch your breath can be easy or it can be hard. I tend to do things the hard way. Let’s call this Part 1. Work has been crazy for a while now, mainly through difficulties with finding good staff. It’s been quite stressful on the team that always dig deep…