Lucy’s Blog

Im humming the song because today was the day Debs finally lit her fire staff. Everyone at our house was excited. Rachael almost asked every 5 minutes from late afternoon if it was time yet. We have all been waiting for it, so after dinner we made use of the green grassy oval across the road from us. We went with fire blanket at hand, camera in the other and severe warnings for Rachael to stay behind_that_line.
Deb has been practising lots and lots of tricky tricks. It looked just fantastic. It sounded amazing. And it smelt, well … of citronella because our girl had been given a bottle of this fuel for free by a nice person at the camping shop (she does that). There are no mozzies on the oval anymore.

So if you want to look at the pics they are going to be on Debs blog http://neokitten.spaces.live.com/ pretty soon..

Last night UC hosted their annual Womens Professional Development Dinner. Figuring on a very female evening, I decided to invite my mum as my date. It was fun to do that and I was actually able to show her my office and the Spiritual Meeting Place where I work.

Geraldine Doogue was asked to reflect on her career and share some of her story. Having known her as a public figure it was quite interesting to have some insights into her career and personal stories.

These are the insights, stories or lessons I noticed most.

On education: Catholic nuns teach young women to give their best all the time. Coping with various sisters in WA has shaped many strong women eg Dr Carmen Lawrence.

Turning points: 1971 entering Journalism. 1992 Changing direction to present on Life Matters on Radio National. Always loving the industry she worked in.

On mentoring: do not expect your mentor to be sympathetic all the time. They should give you honesty and be firm in noting your limits. For example when GD had small children and was offered a different job the advice was “you will not have time to have a cold”. Point was taken, there are some times you need to accept your limits.