Like all good accountants, I keep my professional education up to date. I need to have the latest tax, accounting and other professional knowledge under my belt at all times. Most of this is derived through courses and seminars of a day or half-day in Hobart or perhaps as far away as Melbourne. In 2011 I started studying for a PhD in water accounting at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW. This year my study program took me to Delft, in the Netherlands, at UNESCO-I

Most of you will be aware that I returned from a 7-week sabbatical in mid-October and am now ploughing through a backlog of work which, surprisingly, didn’t reduce in size during my absence. The study break was great – productive in relation to my reason for going to the Netherlands (progressing my PhD study) as well as enjoyable. Delft is a beautiful city, and I had the opportunity to travel easily in the region of South Holland on my weekends. Art, cheese and water – a grea