Week 09/2026: Catching up

Week of 23 February 2026

Another busy week so this is another short post. I have a couple of catch-up things to write about. They’re coming!

This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice.

Not catching up yet

Into the Deep

On Monday I had a couple of things to do in Salamanca, which were related to what I did last week (and haven’t yet written about . . . getting there . . . ) and I noticed a sign for Lee-Anne Peters’s exhibition Into the Deep at Salamanca Social.

I’ve seen Lee-Anne’s work on Instagram so I thought I’d go and check it out.

Into the Deep is . . .

to uncover, discover, recover

Unique sculptural works of clay and paint to prompt depth, questioning and meaning.

I’m so glad I went because Lee-Anne had some little snakes there, and they drew me in.

I’ve been hearing a bit about snakes lately, and thought this was a lovely coincidence. Lee-Anne said often snakes represent shedding of the old and bringing in the new, and I said, like menopause, and she said, yes, just like that.

Curious Snake caught my eye so I took her home and she’s sitting on my desk now.

I love Curious Snake!

Returning to uni

This week was also the first week of the new uni year, and I’ve gone back for a second year. I don’t have much to say at this point because I’ve been under the pump preparing for my first assignment, which was due in week 2.

But you can read about that here, and tell me what an excellent idea it was to go first and get this assignment out of the way.

My sleep might not agree!

More to come . . .

Habit tracker

I’m thinking about reviewing how I track these habits and which ones I need to keep tracking, which ones aren’t working and whether I need to replace them.

• Go outside first thing (7 days): 6/7
• 15 minutes morning exercise sequence (7 days): 6/7
• Hip exercises (5 days): 0/5
• Walk (7 days): 5/7
• Carry a notebook with me when I walk (5 days): 4/5
• Thinking time (4 days): 5/4
• Morning planning routine (4 days): 0/4
• Mid-day journalling (7 days): 1/7
• Work shutdown (4 days): 0/4
• 9.30 shutdown & dim lights (6 days): 1/6
• Evening routine (7 days): 4/7

Summary of the week

This week I learned

I found a book at my mother’s place from New Scientist called The Origin of (Almost) Everything and I flicked through it when I was visiting. It was full of fascinating information.

One of the questions in the book was, why don’t animals have wheels, and it went into a rather elaborate explanation of that. The most logical reason, which I have to say I had never thought of, is that there is no way you could have an appendage that could rotate freely while still being supplied with blood vessels and nerves.

Ohhhhhh . . . .

And what is the place with the most unexciting climate in the world?

According to this book, Weatherwise magazine in the UK named Viña del Mar, a coastal town near Valparaiso, Chile, as the winner. It says here the daytime temperature hovers between 15 and 25 Celsius all year round. It’s usually slightly overcast, and drizzles quite a lot. The wind rarely gets above a stiff breeze. It never freezes or snows. Only the occasional thunderstorm breaks the tedium.

I could think of a lot worse places to live.

This week I noticed

Signal Box 9103

This signal box on the corner of Murray and Davey Street has been repainted.

This is one of the signal box art works made under Hobart City Council’s signal box program, and it was originally painted by samedog in January 2011. You might remember it looking like the picture below, as samedog reflected on the battle to save the 10 Murray Street office building.

Now the art work has joined the building.

Scramble crossings

There are new signs on the street corners about how to use the scramble crossings.

I read in the paper the council is making them permanent after the recent trial, and they are now going to install the full signage, line markings and whatever else they need to make them fully operational.

Yay.

Scramble crossings are great!

Reading

• Let Them by Mel Robbins
• Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

Watching

• Doctor Who ‘The Evil of the Daleks’

Listening

• SIX the Musical Studio Cast Recording