Posted by Wendy Davis on June 27, 2014 and filed under blogjune•culture•life•music
I had an interesting conversation with my violin teacher at the end of my lesson today. We’d been working through some technical things, tiny micro-problems and challenges. We’d spent nearly half an hour on the first 8 bars or so the Beethoven G major Romance. Every time I played it, I was dissatisfied with the […]
Posted by Wendy Davis on June 26, 2014 and filed under blogjune•life•the cat•trivia
There are no raindrops on roses but if you look carefully further down you will see whiskers on a kitten. There used to be just one brass bell that belonged to my Grandmother. When I was younger it was the “sick” bell. If you were sick in bed you rang it to pieces if you […]
Posted by Wendy Davis on June 23, 2014 and filed under blogjune•days of the week•life•living in the regions
Today was a catch up day. I folded three weeks worth of clean washing. I now have clothes in the cupboard again. This means that I don’t have to rat through piles of laundry every morning looking for something to wear. I also caught up on getting food into the house. Yes, I bought groceries. […]
Posted by Wendy Davis on June 19, 2014 and filed under blogjune•letters•life
I spent another morning at the legal firm this morning learning about records management in the safe custody section. People put lots of different things in safe custody. The saddest thing today was a handwritten last will and testament and suicide note that we had to make a record. Now it’s in a packet with […]
Posted by Wendy Davis on June 17, 2014 and filed under blogjune•life•living in the regions
My highlights reel for the last 24 hours: 1. got a tweet on screen for Q and A 2. had two coffees and a delicious homemade florentine at lunch today 3. met a great librarian at the place where I’m going to do some of my industry placement 4. window shopped at Avenell’s 5. stayed […]
Posted by Wendy Davis on June 16, 2014 and filed under blogjune•life•research•shopping•study
Three great things happened today. 1. I went to the supermarket. I never have a huge amount of stuff but I’ve always avoided the self serve checkout machines. I tried them a few times when they first appeared but I found them stressful. They beeped when I didn’t remove my bagged items in a timely […]
Posted by Wendy Davis on June 14, 2014 and filed under blogging•blogjune•poems•trivia
There are many things I could write about today: what I watched on TV during the week my new sneakers how it’s time to start cooler weather exercise how even though I thought I’d go to the pool through the winter months I don’t really like the inside pool because of the chlorine-y humidity the […]
Posted by Wendy Davis on June 13, 2014 and filed under blogjune•life•Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking (as I frequently do) about teaching and learning, and skills and expertise and all that jazz. And I’ve decided that I am an eternal apprentice and I think that’s a good thing. About a decade ago, a good musical friend here in town and I were bemoaning the fact that it was […]
Posted by Wendy Davis on June 11, 2014 and filed under blogjune•life•Uncategorized
I’m sorry… my what? I know that there are some really organised, together people in the world who know exactly what they want to do with their lives and set about getting there in focused and efficient manner. I’ve never really been one of those people. I’ve never had a single career goal. What do […]
Posted by Wendy Davis on June 10, 2014 and filed under blogjune•culture•films•television
As a proud Generation X-er I feel sad today. I saw Drop Dead Fred in Toowoomba in the early 1990s when I was at university. I can remember the excitement of going to the movie theatre far more clearly than I can remember the friends’ names who went with me. For this was a film […]