Not about porridge and living with bears Sometimes the routine of working just gets to me. Things that worked last week, make me feel restless and irritable. There are days that even three cups of good coffee cannot fix. This type of existential crisis can play out in different ways. A few days ago, I […]

Not quite what I was going to write about I initially wanted to write a post on the psychological costs of precarious employment but became a little sidetracked while making supper. I often listen to podcasts when I am in the kitchen, especially discussions on history. I find it very relaxing. Somehow, a more distant […]

The myth of the productive home office: false productivity I am the nerd who cannot wait to buy a new diary and spends a vast amount of time deciding whether I need to buy an A5 or A4 diary. For years I maintained a very confusing dual system of an analogue diary (stationery fetish) and […]

Prioritising what has true value I discovered my favourite coffee shop/deli during the Covid-19 pandemic. Every Friday morning I would load my bike and cycle for kilometres on the farm’s narrow dirt roads; through orchards, paddocks filled with grass-fed cattle, free-range hens and fallow land filled with meaddow flowers and grasses. Friday mornings the outdoor […]

I recall a time when having a home office and working from the local coffee shops felt more like a life-style statement. I would text a friend ‘Working at J__ join me for coffee or a late breakfast/early lunch’, and they would arrive with a laptop and an eagerness to escape an approaching deadline. Surrounded […]