Month: March 2014

Walk in her shoes – the wrap-up

I’ve finished the Care Australia Walk in Her Shoes Challenge! Thank you everyone who sponsored me – I appreciate your contributions. Now I’ll let you into a little secret. Officially I was trying to walk 20,000 steps each day, but my competitive mind had other plans in store for...

Tassievore Eat Local Challenge: Weeks 2 and 3

In which Weeks 2 and 3 collide and then bounce together into Week 4. For Week 2 of the Tassievore Eat Local Challenge, the suggested challenge was to shop only at Tasmanian businesses. I started to write a post about this, and ended up talking about Two Metre Tall,...

Walk in Her Shoes – Challenge Week Update

It’s Thursday and I’ve passed the half way mark of the Care Australia Walk in Her Shoes Challenge. My personal challenge this week is to walk 20,000 steps each day, which is double my normal step goal. To do this, I’ve been walking as much as I can –...

Walk In Her Shoes – Week 2 Update

A quick update on week 2 of training before I start the 20,000 steps Walk in her Shoes challenge tomorrow morning. I increased my daily step goal from 15,000 last week to 17,500 this week. This has meant even more extra walking. Unlike last week, this week I managed...

12 of 12 March 2014

12 March 2014 was a Wednesday, two days after a Public Holiday. School has been back for five weeks – so it’s only five more until the next lot of school holidays. I’m into Week 2 of “training” for the CARE Australia Walk in her Shoes challenge, which starts...

Walk in her Shoes #2

A few weeks ago I bought myself a Fitbit tracker with some money I got for Christmas. I wasn’t sure whether to take the plunge, but there’s a dedicated Fitbit cult in my Twitter feed who finally convinced me I needed to join them. After much pondering and comparing the...

Tassievore Eat Local Challenge – Week 1

Week 1’s Tassievore challenge was “Try Something New”.  The challenge organisers posted some ideas on their Facebook page, including: Try growing something that you haven’t grown before. Try cooking Tasmanian quinoa. Try a drop of local cider, wine or beer that you haven’t tried before. Visit a restaurant or...

Find Me Friday #9

Welcome back to Find Me Friday, the series where I post a picture of part of a building and you have to find it. Here’s last week’s puzzle: And here it is again: It’s the Westside Laundromat, on the corner of Goulburn and Molle Streets in West Hobart. Congratulations...