On the weekend of the 21 and 22 September 2013, I attended a workshop in Flinders St, Melbourne as part of a Life Coach Certificate IV qualification course that I am currently undertaking. It was the second workshop in a series of three. I had already met all the participants except Kirsty. It was a real pleasure to meet Kirsty. I sat next to Abby and repeatedly got her name wrong. I would like to apologize to Abby for my too frequent faux pas. Next to Abby at the large rectangular table sat Katrina. Katrina has employment requiring her to use her coaching skills. I can only hope that one day I can be as good a coach as Katrina already is. I am grateful to Katrina for two … [Read more...]
Sign of the times
What a bargain! Where do you get one of these carry on suitcases that weigh less than the death penalty? That depends where you live. Contact me … [Read more...]
Sydney and luggage
If you have some bags you do not want to carry around Sydney, avoid the central station expensive baggage storage and go to the casino, star city. If you have a star city loyalty card that they give away for free at the casino information desk, you can store bags for free at the cloak room outside the gaming area. … [Read more...]
Johnny Cash lives on
June Carter Cash died last century. But Johnny Cash lived on for another 14 years, forced to croon sans June, in a little theatre in Melbourne, Australia. While it poured rain on a July 2013 Friday night, St Kilda's local hero Tex Perkins breathed new life into old Johnny. The bassist and the band came back to life, and all of a sudden out sauntered a sexy June Carter, yes it was her! Tuesday Perkins, kin of the famous Tex, brought Ruth O'Leary who had suffered her own stroke of fame, surviving a Samoan bus planing into a raging river. See The Sun It rained and rained and my 7.30 silver top took twenty minutes to even reach my digs. Late we were, seated in the last row , the 19th … [Read more...]