James O'Brien

Conscious that I sometimes share material on other platforms that never makes “the cut” here on my blog, here’s a few tweets, posts, and observations...

There was a very strange feeling at Sydney Airport today. Though of course there are times when it can be reasonably quiet there, there’s always...

With news today of furtther job losses in the airline industry in Australia, and a prediction there will not be many international flights for at...

“Where are you?”, a colleague asked me the other day as we spoke on the phone. “I’m at the supermarket. I’ve run out of dishwashing...

I’ve become somewhat fascinated lately about the way in which people apply hand sanitiser. It’s everywhere you go, from the supermarket to the pub. As...

“Can you give me a hand up? I’m not sure I can get back up”, an older woman (probably in her early 70s) said to...

Work-free Wednesday has been continuing over the last few months during the COVID-19 lockdown. As I mentioned a few months ago, I have “excess leave”,...

Conscious that I sometimes share material on other platforms that never makes “the cut” here on my blog, here’s a few tweets, posts, and observations...

With a bit of free time on my hands over the last few weeks, I’ve been using a website to colourize some old family photographs I’d...

I sneaked a quick peak through the window of my local pub. The chairs and tables were stacked up, and it was just as it...

Most years there’s two or three songs I really, really like, and “meh” is my usual reaction to most of the remainder. But this year,...