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Sep 19, 2021

Tommy & Lewi

In the pool tonight. Thomas must have used his phone!

Thanks for the pics Tommy, hope you still have a workable phone..

Oh, turns out it was his GoPro

Sep 17, 2021

My Dad

Ken O'Sullivan

Loved his Rugby. Represented Nelson but I don't know the details.

Looks like he was possibly still in his teens here.

Later years in Totara St Nelson, mum and dads first and only new home. Me with mums mother (my Nana) and an Aussie friend on the right. My big sis Lyn (Aka now as Gidge) sitting. I look like 4 or so.

Circa 1955.

Looks like he's acting it up here. Not like him. A few beers later perhaps...

Mid 40's. He came back from Egypt and Italy and had been very ill from a bullet wound and pneumonia

We understand this photo was taken during his recovery in NZ.

With mum. In their 50's

Need to check on the year of this as our youngest was yet to be born by the looks.

Having a formal photo was not like us. But pleased they did it.

Sep 14, 2021

Our painters turned up and unexpectedly said they were not just doing the hallway (which we had prepared) but the entire job and they would not leave until it was finished. Lucky for me I was at work....Rob copped the job of an emergency move of all the stuff that the painters need to access the work. They were great and helped, which is very cool.

Dear old Rob. The ironing must go on.

My office floor. Usually free of stuff but was nice and convenient for a wardrobe clean out dump. For the next few days we are open for view with all blinds and curtains gone!

More to come...

Sep 13, 2021

Virtual Meetings Virtually Useless

I found this cartoon on the web after writing the comments below.

Virtual Meetings Virtually Useless

Well for me anyway. I hate them. Yes they are a necessity during the Covid restrictions but long term we will be loosing a lot of value we otherwise can get from personal meetings.

In my experience meetings online are dominated by people who are more than happy to keep talking past their use-by date and talking over the top of the less dominant (and potentially more valuable) participants.

Then there are the people who just sit in, turn off (literally, their video feed and their microphone) and simply just zero out. Then there are the constant technology inadequacies that disrupt the flow of a meeting.

Personally, at a meeting, I like to look at all of the participants, encourage their input and read their body language and reactions to the nuances of matters that are being discussed at the meeting. These are all lost in on-line get togethers. In my view virtual meetings are stop gap measure where real work needs to be done between face to face meetings or a venue for just touching base and covering the more mundane aspects of business that really can be covered by an email.

I agree there is a place for virtual meetings where it comes to training. But its only one of the tools we can use not the panacea to replace face to face learning.

Well that's my bitch for the day but others would disagree as outlined in the linked document below.

On-Line Meetings Should Continue