I have arrived at friends for dinner and have been greeted by one singing along to Divine You think You’re a Man and the other yelling out “I’m in the kitchen getting my sausage sorted”. I think the open wine bottle on the bench may not be the first.

Should be an entertaining night!

Two guys sitting at the table beside me at this cafe and I’m close enough to hear their conversation. I honestly can’t work out if they’re having a business meeting/interview or a first date.

I’m excited for them either way.

Here we are in 2023, with three years of online meetings, and people are still playing music in the background when working at home and not turning off when they talk in a meeting.

Spent the afternoon at a HR training session. Two things come to mind:

(1) What did facilitators do before they could show videos of TEDx Talks or YouTube videos?

(2) Stabbing a red hot poker in my eye might have been less painful.

We all love a crochet blanket when it starts to get cooler at night.

A black and white cat laying lengthways between a persons legs. The legs are covered with a crochet blanket coloured pink, blue, brown, yellow and green.

🐈‍ Upsetting the cat by asking her to move off my lap so I can go to work.

A gorgeous bluesky on a lovely autumn afternoon. I love this time of year.

This old gas stripping tower is along the Brisbane river in West End. The tower was used in the removal of tar and ammonia from raw coal gas. Made in 1912, it’s heritage listed and the only one of its kind left in Australia.

A reddish brown cylindrical tower at the bottom of a grassy bank. A platform surrounds the top of the tower and narrow steps are visible. There are large trees across the top of the grass bank and a clear rich blue sky behind the trees and tower.

🍷 Friday night plan: takeaway, then a glass of wine and catching up on some tv shows.

If you start now and watch seven episodes a week (including specials) you will have completed all of the 2005 onward episodes of Doctor Who before the 60th special airs in November. 📺

The circle of life:

Me this morning “I need to go to bed early tonight”

Me after dinner “I might just read for a bit then go to bed”

Me now “wait, it’s 11:20pm?! I need to stop reading. Will have to try to go to bed early tomorrow night”