Week 20/2025: Just quickly

Posted On 27 May 2025
Week of 12 May 2025

A busy week

Just quickly, a short post because I’m overwhelmed with other things to do right now.

I keep asking myself how I ever managed to write a post a day in 2011 when I started this blog when I was working and kidwrangling a four-year-old, and now I’m struggling to keep up with one post a week!

Here’s a photo of Monday night’s sky.

Pale pink and blue sky with one tiny white cloud at the bottom
A tiny cloud

I did many cool things this week including

A Slightly Isolated Dog’s performance of Jekyll and Hyde at the Studio Theatre on Tuesday night.

A group of five performers staring at the camera with exaggerated facial expressions
The Jekyll and Hyde performers (Photo from the Theatre Royal)

HoCo Now (Hobart College’s art exhibition) and the ArtRage exhibition of 2024 TCE students at Salamanca Arts Centre on Wednesday.

An art exhibition. In the foreground, a wall with the words HOCO NOW and in the background a wall displaying artworks
HoCO Now exhibition
A page from an art journal with pen and ink drawings of buildings and the words BURNT AND PAVED OVER
A page from Nina McLean’s art journal: Burnt and paved over (Examiners Choice 2024 TCE Visual Art)

Nicola Gower-Wallis’s exhibition Cloud Chorus at the Bett Gallery on Thursday. I loved this painting because plovers.

A painting of some houses on a hill. There is an oval in the foreground with plovers standing on the grass
Nicola Gower Wallis: The Bi-annual

Yes, Prime Minister at the Playhouse Theatre on Saturday.

A program for the play Yes, Prime Minister being held in front of the stage where the play will be performed
John X Presents Yes, Prime Minister

Summary of the week

Habit tracker

Old habits

  • Go outside & exercise first thing (7 days): 3/7
  • 15 minutes morning exercise sequence (7 days): 5/7
  • Hip exercises (5 days): 0/5
  • 2 walks or bike rides or a combination (6 days): 4/6
  • Long walk (1 day): 1/1
  • Walk 8,000 steps (7 days): 7/7
  • 9.00 shutdown & dim lights (6 days): 1/6
  • Evening routine (6 days): 4/6

New habits

  • Fill water bottle in the morning (5 days): 5/5
  • Carry a notebook with me when I walk (7 days): 6/7
  • Mid-day journalling (7 days): 2/7
  • Thinking time (2 days): 4/2
  • Read aloud (7 days): 3/7

What did I learn this week?

The TV show Yes, Minister was meant to have premiered on the BBC in 1979 but was delayed due to concerns it would affect the 1979 general election.

It eventually premiered on BBC2 in 1980. Margaret Thatcher (elected at that election) was a big fan and even wrote herself into a sketch for the show in 1984.

What did I notice this week?

Tiny glimpse of light on the road.

A patch of light lights up some plants on the side of an empty road
Sunday morning light

What was the best thing this week?

Jekyll and Hyde

What am I reading this week?

  • Out of the Ordinary by Kate Jenkins
  • The Lemongrass Project by Janet Richardson

What am I listening to this week?

  • Spacemakers Podcast (Season 3)
  • Legally Blonde: The Musical (Original Cast Recording)

What am I watching this week?

  • Masterchef Australia
  • Jekyll and Hyde by A Slightly Isolated Dog
  • Resident Alien
  • Stranger Things (Season 1)
  • Yes, Prime Minister by Hobart Repertory
  • Doctor Who ‘Four to Doomsday’
  • Doctor Who ‘The Interstellar Song Contest’
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