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Away
Dunn Swamp Weekend in Alpine Carcoar in Jan Carcoar for Xmas
The Arctic Getting ready for Arctic (research, purchasing) Singapore & Oslo on the way The Arctic (Svalbard)
Bird photography
The Arctic (especially Puffin) Sydney birding: Barton Park Cape Town (Rondevlei, Kirstenbosch, Strandfontein, Intaka Island)
Cape Town
Cedarberg hike (Wolfberg Cracks) Hikes in Houtbay & Silvermine Ndlovu Choir
Covid 100 day lockdown (June 26 - Sep 26)
Meet up with Xenia in Milson's Park Online Zoom quizzes for lockdown Watching many movies with a twist
Weekends away
Zante and Andrew wedding Visit Tina in Carcoar with Chris MDMA weekend at Blue Mountains with Shushann and Aimee
Outings
High tea at Vaucluse House
House
Install glass panel Christina moves in
Hikes and walks
Outing with Elna to waterfall Malabar Headland with Elna Hike to water holes with Srini and Gavin Mermaid Falls with hiking gang (celebrate freedom) Overnight hiking in Blue Mountains with Andrew and Zante Hike to Colo river for an amazing swim with Srini Waverton to Milson's Point with Liz and Mark
Purchases
iPhone 13, Mackbook Pro: life in order
Connect
Nic's web site Michael's gift - such generosity Aimee book launch Table tennis with Chris Martin's 65th party
Wisdom Trove
Development with Rujuta (secondary navigation, random owls etc.) Soft launch (Sep) Life is God's movie - world as illusion, self as illusion etc., Idealism, finite mind as VR headset
Challenges
Sydney bushfires Living in a time of COVID (lock-downs)
South Africa
My time in Plett with the Boting family (including the Robberg hike and boating.) The Silo for high tea
Going away Deva Premal with Shushann, Aimee, Sharon and Lilo. Two visits to Carcoar to be with Tina (Settle in, then with Shushann) Blue Mountains weekend with Shushann and Lydia
Hikes
Centennial Glen with Gavin and Srini Hike down to river Two canyoning trips, the second with snakes! Walks with Lydia and Shushann especially Le Perouse. and Manly Dam.
Outings
The Van Gogh digital exhibition.
Two photo meet ups: Manly and Newtown Photo Meet Up.
House
Creating a cover for my air conditioning unit.
Connect
Supporting Gavin with his Ted Talk.
Wisdom Trove
Friends Lunches with Christina, Xenia and co
Xenia for dinner: Japanese, Kiribili clubs, North Sydney club, little cafe.
Thai dinner with Brendan, Eva, Mary-Ann
Outings
Art galleries and museums
Photography outings
South Africa and surrounds
Cape Town visit
Victoria Falls
Chobe
Plett
South Africa
Australia
Mangrove Mountain
Dunn Swamp (Meet Up and Yogi)
Hiking in Budawang
Marion
Wisdom Trove
Upload topics to Wordpress
Loads of spiritual content
Life is God’s experience, movie etc, as quotes (after high)
Approval seeking and joy (summary, other types of wisdom content)
Aimee sessions, input and ideas
Realise how NB books are
Aimee clarity and joy
Joy quotes and “in a nutshell”
Home page redesign (large owl, shaded areas) after Aimee feedback
Carousel
Quote and related bullets
2nd edition: joy, approval seeking
Home life
Living with Srini & Rajesh Australian Open (Federe wins) About Life
Life with Martin and Kate Dinners Movies Cooking (peanut stir fry, tuna and salmon, soup and caramelised onion tart, lamb shanks with Martin, Lauren, Pearl cous cous, lamb shanks and cous cous with Brendan and Eva DIY (guest room & bathroom)
Trips Cambodia Tasmania with Roger & Russell
Hiking
Warren-bungles
Sydney Bushwalkers hike (x 2)
More
Reading iPad and coffee at The Botanica 5 Rhythms dancing Table tennis with Chris
Bowral with Jilly - buy sculptures
Home renovation Home renovate (early in year)
Wisdom Trove
Enfold template Wordpress set up and start uploading Readings about consciousness (inner experience)
Authors linked to author pages.
Tasmania: author pages for 20+ authors
Plugins: Content view: lists and filters, Search Pro, Table of content, Text replace
Design with owl in title bar
Site for Aimee
Home renovation
Courtyard trellis (vertical slats for succulents)
Laying floors (and finding missing floors)
Bathroom (washing basin, remove mirror and shower doors, towel rack, new mirror)
Buying furniture
Photos (selecting, buying frames, printing, putting up)
Watering system
Wisdom Trove
Wisdom Trove editing
Putting in section headings (Headings and sub-headings)
Events
Farm with Brendan (fireplace in, fence out, clearing trees)
Day in Melbourne
Sydney with Jo (Blue Mountains, Sydney walks)
Hiking with Russell. (RNP Coastal Track, Mermaid Pool, Canyon, Hanging Rock)
Sharon dates (walk, movie; picnic, watch BL video at her home)
Cape Town (roadtrip with Jo to pick up Matt)
Eckhart hikes
Yogi friendship (meetings at The Bot, Sculptures by the Sea, Gore Cove, Le Perouse)
Louise (spiritual discussions on a high)
Create
Compass makeover
Wisdom Trove (on Evernote)
Home Rennovations
The Ultimate Experience
Home renovations
Start June when get back from South Africa
Travels
Tasmania (Cradle Mountain, Lake St Claire, Mount Field, Freycinet)
South Africa (Garden Route, Addo, Jeff Bay, Cinstha, Port St Johns. Hogback, Drakensberg, Joberg, Utopia)
Cape Town with Chrisel (Kirtenbosch, Cape Point, Hermanus, Lion's Head, Table Mountain, Franschhoek)
Weekend away
Mount Kuz
Kayaking Shoalhaven Gorge
Hikes
Cradle Mountain
The Tarn
Cathedral Rock
Tsitisikama
Tugela Falls
Sani Pass
Manly Dam & Scenic Walk
Loura
RNP Lake
Social
New Years fireworks with Jilly
North Sydney pool swim with Elna
Jilly's 80th birthday party
Jilly's music concert
Eat out with Serena
Close sharing with Srini
Mndful dinners with Srini
Meal with Chris, Craig and Peter
Meals with Chris
Botanica with Yogi
Hospital
Wisdom Trove
Awakening experiences, mania
Start of Life is God’s experience and Life is God's movie (The ultimate experience & God as space)
Wisdom Trove to Evernote Mac computer Life dashboard (Compass)
Create
Wisdom Trove: 851 hours
Blog: 232 hours
Compass: 143 hours
DIY: 150 hours
Cape Town
Weekend away with Herds
Table Mountain with Russell
Volleyball on Camps Bay
Paragliding
Ratanga Junction
Bo Kaap
World of Birds
Hint Hunt
Weekend away
Mount Kosciuszko
Kangaroo Valley (x2)
Blue Mountains with hiking gang
Newnes mine and glowworms
Shoalhaven River
Barrington Tops
Central Coast with Chrisel (x2)
Hikes
Sculptured Rocks (Chrisel)
Royal National Park (reflections)
Manly Scenic walk.
Royal National Park (Burning Palms)
Le Perouse
Mermaid Pools (x2)
Spirituality
Geraldine celebration
Nic group
HAI meditation evening + workshop
Biodanza (2x)
Don Miguel presentation.
Jilly (Eckhart)
5 sessions with Louise
Social
Sappho Book store
Opera House underwater + Extreme
Liz's 40 th
Sue 70th birthday
Wisdom Trove
Do quotes by topic
Wisdom Trove: 841 hours
Creating
Wisdom Trove
My Compass
Reflections
Photography
Exhibitions (Press, Antarctica, Wildlife)
Photography trip to Hawkesbury
Sculptures by Sea
Presentation to camera club
Zombie walk
Meet Up
Meet up walks at ocean (Manly, Watson's Bay, Botany Bay)
Hawkesbury hikes
Jervis Bay weekend
Southern Highlands weekend
Spiritual
Intimacy Group (Abe)
Eckhart at Jilly's
Geraldine
Buddhist group (incl anxiety workshop)
Nic's Group
Pathways to Intimacy
Dani
Dubbo & Mudgee
Hunter Valley
Port Stephens paddling race
Restaurants with (Spanish, Thai, Nepal, Radio Cairo, Spanish)
Student Art at National Gallery
Anniversary
Clothes and DVD shopping
Dragon Boat Racing
Paddling on harbour and trying Honu
Sailing
Social
Tennis with Brendan & Frank
Drinks and swimming with Helen
Dinners with Roger, Andreas
Life
Wisdom Trove (start Feb, full time in June) Teaching (till June)
Mum and Mike visit
Spirituality
Behram weekend
Jilly Tuesday nights (Eckhart) HAI workshop
Geraldine
Dani (from June)
Whale-watching
Blue Mountains weekend away
Matthias Klum presentation
Blue Mountains party
Xmas trip
South Africa
Kruger National Park Orange River
Hiking
Orange River
Blue Mountains (Ruined Castle)
Blue Mountains walk with Dani and friends (birthday party)
Cathedral Rock National Park
Two Creeks Hike
Photography
Kruger (leopard, bee-eater, owl, wild dog)
Newcastle wader photography
New Year fireworks
Hunter Valley weekend away with camera club
Leopard
Photographing the farm
Travel
Orange River
Fish River Canyon
Kruger National Park
Waterfall Way, Nambucca, Dubbo, Mudgee
More
Daily walks (city skyline, Ball's Head, Berry Island)
Tennis with Brendan
Create
Sue's blog
Blog new design
Teaching (twists, business, white board, CELTA lessons)
Teacher's Wiki + class blog
Teaching
Teaching at Kaplan (full year)
Murder night
Trips
Great Ocean Road
Central Coast
Glen Davis
Blue Mountains hiking
Lake St Clair (Doug)
Sanjay
Sanjay visits (Canyon + dinner party)
Lizzy
Cooking course
Massage course
Doggie party
Kayaking
Photography
Victoria waterfall
Tram shed & Dunlop Factory
Sculptures by The Sea
Sneiders photo shoot
Taralga Rodeo
Cockatoo Island
Le Perouse
Rookwood
Canyon X
Hiking (Blue Mountains)
Blue gum forrest
Victoria Falls and Valley of Waters
The Canyon with Sanjay
South Africa
Cape Town with family (taboggen, photography) - 6 weeks
Trip to Garden Route
Singapore Botanical Garden
Teaching (from April)
Academy of English
Kaplan
Sydney life
Aussie citizen
Port Stephens with camera club
Mack ran away - Liza arrives into our lives
Bark in The Park
Sydney life
Camping at Kiama + Jamberoo
Mum and Mike visit
Ally separation
Lightroom Viveza
Photography
Katoomba Three Sisters with Mack
Vivid Lights festival
Forrester' s Beach
Balmoral Burn
Taronga Zoo
Sunrises at Northern Beaches
Bobbin Head
Medieval Festival
Sydney Triathlon
Oxfam
CELTA
Cape Town
Work
Leave Blackglass (March)
Work at Ogilvy for month
Contract work for Blackglass
Sydney life
Farmer's Market
Moving into 43B King Street
Photography
Trips
Uluru, Kakadu, Litchfield National Park New Zealand Tasmania
Blackglass
Fabricmatcher
Ferry into work
Trips
Houseboating on The Hawkesbury River
Camping at Capertee Valley North Queensland (Daintree and Cape Tribulation) Cape Town for Colleen and Steve's wedding. Death defying leaps at Myburgh's Ravine with Russell.
Outings
Visiting Bobbin Head for the first time Paddle skiing at Manly. Three Sisters at The Blue Mountains for the first time. Watching Priscilla Queen of the Desert Dressing up for a fun Bogan party.
People
Brendan and Eva arriving in Sydney Rugby World Cup Xmas with Ally's Australian family in Brisbane and getting our faces painted.Dorothy from Volvo comes to stay with us.
Photography
Getting my beautiful 300 mm lens.
Taking photos of stilts at Bicentennial Park with my new 500 mm lens.
A pelagic trip where I got to take photos of albatrosses.
Travel
Cape Town for Xmas 2005 (including Witels)
South America trip (6 months)
Cape Town (2 weeks in mid 2006) Fly to Australia via Singapore (one night en route)
Fly into Perth Fly into Melbourne (buy car) Drive to Sydney (tour by Doug and Claudia) Drive to Brisbane (stay with Glen and Carleen) Drive back to Sydney where settle in
Manly 2 weeks Settle into Blues Point Tower, North Sydney
South America Argentina Chile Bolivia Brazil Peru Ecuador
Hiking
Wit Els (Cape Town) Volcano (Chile) Torres del Paine (Chile) Fitzroy (Argentina) Madidi Jungle (Bolivia) Inca Trail (Peru) Colca Canyon (Peru) Myburgh Ravine (Cape Town with Russell)
Settle into Sydney Introduction by Doug and Claudia to Sydney 2 weeks in Manly Week at Enterprise Marketing Move into Blues Point Start working for Agency Fusion New Year fireworks and party
Cambridge life
Watching all the movies on the IMDB.com top 250 Punting Botanical Gardens Library and crepes Sally visit Mum and mike visit Caroline visits Granchester
Day and weekend trips London sightseeing (including Buckingham Palace) Turner Whistler Monet exhibition in London Last Night at the Proms Mamma Mia in London Cheshire Triathlon East Bourne Fri night skate Jessie's wedding Sandringham Estate Suffolk with Amanda and Johnathon Visits to Gus and Carol Sailing with Gus
Holidays and trips
Diving in Egypt
Prague
Canada West Australia Jersey & Guernsey
Business Trips
Gothenburg Stockholm
Copenhagen Salzberg Dublin Munich
North Carolina (training for Volvo trucks)
Belley Amsterdam Madrid Lison Brussels
Create
Life Trove Gramps eulogy
Volvo site + Strategy documents + Denmark SPM map
Volvo CE web strategy
Ally board presentation
Hiking
Myburgh Ravine (Russell)
Edith Pass (Banff)
Siegelgale (April 2000 - June 2001)Infuzer Safehost Synthesising financial services Bank Hapoalim in Tel Aviv (brand strategy, literature strategy, site review, flash)
Travel
Africa trip: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya (2001)
Nepal: Annapurna Circuit hike and Chitwan National Park (2001)
Istanbul to Cairo tour leading (2002)
Hammersmith Grove life Touch rugby & roast lunch Rollerblading Many plays Visitors (Jo & Ant, mum & Mike) Cycling Thai Chi Landmark forum
Volvo.com project (2003)Project communication CMS training and documentation Webcentre site Trips to Asheville, Gothenburg, Curitiba and Iguazu Falls in Brazil (2003)
Holiday
Barbados (2002) Croatia (2003)
Cape Town
2001: In advance of my trip through Africa, Dirk wedding, Rotunga
2002: Mum and Mike wedding, meet baby Matt 2003: Jo & Steve wedding
Hiking
Climbing through Steenbras cracks with Russell
Annapurna circuit (21 days)
Malawi to waterfall
Old Mutual
Trainee Marketing Consultant course Sales training and client admin Market research and analytics Agency marketing Broker marketing Corporate marketing (and farmer's market) Developing markets Investment marketing Electronic Agency
Individual Life website Gateway (broker extranet)
Ally overseas (1996)
1996 travel
1996 trip to London, Scotland, Lake District and Europe tour
Paradise Island
1997 travel
London
SW England
Ireland
Holland
Greece
Israel
Jordan
Egypt
Turkey
India
Thailand
Cape Town
Doing up Willow Road
Wedding and Franschhoek
Hiking
Fish River
Otter Trail twice (with Rory, then with Ally, Colleen & Michael)
Hardcore hiking club
Hoar Hut
Jungle hike (Northern Thailand)
Mount Olympos
Vicos Gorge (Greece)
