After another busy week, I’m sitting in an airport waiting for my flight to take me home. It leaves at a certain time. I’ll be glad to get home at a certain time. It’s a Friday and I have a heap of things I’d like to get done over the weekend. Unfortunately with limited time.…
Here we are at Christmas time again, another year just about done. For me, it’s a time to catch my breath, a time to find some calm in the world, a time to think about the past year. A time to reflect, play my guitar, read and catch up on outstanding house and yard tasks.…
How is it that some people’s lives never really grow or progress, nothing seems to go their way. Though curiously they’re not always negative and they’re not toxic people – how does that work? They do want the great car and the nice house or the loving relationship, but their thoughts are “I’ll never be…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 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…
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…
It’s within walking distance to one of the best beaches in the world and it was always a bit of a sleeper and a well kept secret. Not anymore, things have changed dramatically in the last couple of years. Gentrification and population growth have well and truly made its way to our once sleepy dog…
Hi Manstheorists, This ones a guest blog that I received from a good friend who wanted to share his experiences through a year of contrast and reflection – to say the least. Thanks Andre. And so it goes: If someone had told me what 2020 was going to behold, I would have laughed and said…
