Every family has its own hero. They come in all shapes, sizes and ages. Sometimes, very unexpectedly.  This is a story of how Bluey, my 92 year old father, became my hero on a day of bomb threats and blisters.

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Monday Feb 21 – 2011. A day of strange disruptions in Perth.

I had a lovely weekend of cat sitting in the hills at Chateau de Liswar while Warren and Lisa took overseas friends to Rottnest, and I came home mid morning to try and sort out some communication issues with Telstra.  A planned Skype conference was deferred and I used Twitter on the iPhone to push my case along with them. With a short window of opportunity in the afternoon, I wrote two of the three stories that had a rapidly closing deadline.

In the early evening, I jumped into the car to drive into Perth for a networking meeting with a group of LinkedIn friends I had been dying to meet for ages.  To my absolute surprise, the radio announced that the city was in lock down; [Read more…] about Do You Have A Hero In Your Family?