Artist: Hozier Location: Riverstage, Brisbane I will be the first to admit, I am a novice when it comes to music. I enjoy listening to it, but I would not know where to start when it comes to playing it. With that in mind, I do appreciated good music and talented artists. A few months…
A TEAM OF RIVALS – Doris Kearns Goodwin (Pulitzer Prize winner) If you are interested in leadership, then this is an absolutely fascinating read. From Abraham Lincoln’s early and humble beginnings, to becoming a young lawyer in small town America, then failing to gain election at a local level at his first attempt; he ultimately…
In 1918 on 11th of November at 11am, the Armistice was signed by France, Great Britain and Germany bringing an end to the fighting of World War One. Wednesday of this past week saw the ninety seventh anniversary of this part of history. In 2012, along with my wife and two children I had the…
The mental and physical challenge, the beauty of an island reef, the uncontrolled environment,the disconnect from a digital world, the people, the outcome. After a 4am start, with my wonderful wife, we met up with my sister Vanessa and her husband Bruce (Rowdy) at Brisbane airport. We all then…
It happened last Sunday ! I’d been aware of the event from last year, if not before that. I had played with the idea of giving it a crack. Yeah that’s something I should do ! I’m pumped ! Then again, maybe next year. Yes definitely next year ! I’m one who at times…
Thank God its Friday. How often is it we say this? I know for me, it is a weekly occurrence. Oddly enough, I have been thinking about this post for a few days and how best to get my thoughts onto the page. I came home to find RD had posted a very similar thread…
In listening to a podcast the other day I was informed that 85% of the workforce hate their jobs – hate is such a strong word ! Now that is a very sad situation. On top of this , I was also informed that most heart attacks happen between 6am and 9am on a Monday…
It’s a common thread, but I left school at 16 years old after completing Year 10 in Australia and the year was 1978 (yes that’s right I’m 53 years of age). My world was one where I couldn’t wait to get into the workforce. My parents were average working class people that had five children…
Well, after seeing my old man have a crack at technology, I thought I should jump on and look to write something myself. I am MD, the younger version of RD. As RD discussed, pre blog times were full of great ideas to talk about with anyone that was willing to listen. Now that we…
Ok, well this is the first of hopefully many Blogs that both myself and MD ( partner & son in crime) will post. Its a strange thing to get to the point where you make a call to actually get a site up and running. Now that we have reached this point, what’s next? Pressures…