Not quite Proustian but ... you know.
They do say ... write as if your life depended on it.
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Dougie
- Jun 20, 2023
- 1 min
My life in the 'tropics'...
The dubious joys of a Canberra winter.
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Dougie
- Apr 16, 2023
- 2 min
Not all of life's an epic poem
The hero's journey ... Or not. And not quite Dante either. But, you know, IKEA on a Saturday?
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Dougie
- Apr 11, 2023
- 7 min
When I was a child I believed that love is kind ...
"People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart" Mandela
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Dougie
- Feb 10, 2023
- 1 min
Don't mess with the squirrel
After a long day at the office, Dougie tweets away at the universe. Meanwhile, it's gone out for dinner to a good Indian erestaurant.
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Dougie
- Jan 19, 2023
- 1 min
More than moving office
The last day in this office. I am not sad to leave and will never look back.
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Dougie
- Jan 11, 2023
- 1 min
The flesh is weak (and tired). My head's in 1975 ...
Remember when you were young / You shone like the sun
... and other fairy tales.
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Dougie
- Jan 3, 2023
- 0 min
Working from home
Remote working kit. Mobile phone, typing splint & Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life.
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Dougie
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
The end of the line(s)
We prepare to relocate office. We cannot even give away these ancient relics.
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Dougie
- Dec 29, 2022
- 4 min
So near and yet ... so very very far
Which matters most -- the journey or the destination? Actually, a skilled mechanic come auto-electrician is crucial to success.
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Dougie
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
Nothing About Us Without Us -- How to re-build the NDIS
I am part of a review panel considering reforms to Australia's $30 Billion, 535,000 person NDIS. Here's my speech to our first webinar.
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Dougie
- Oct 17, 2022
- 1 min
So this is positive ... NDIS Review launched by Minister
I have been appointed with others to the independent panel guiding a year long review of the NDIS. Pleased to be asked. Happy to say yes.
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Dougie
- Aug 22, 2022
- 7 min
This above all - to thine own self be true. And fix the NDIS!
Like many of us (I suppose) I have been reading about and listening to the former Prime Minister of Australia with sorrow (genuine) and ....
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Dougie
- Apr 21, 2022
- 1 min
I'm only human ...
It may well be possible that in the 'heat' of debate our Prime Minister misspoke on telly. But it's not simply "one word" as some have...
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