Canberra & NSW travel blog part 3: Tumut & Adelong
Day 5: Tumut & Adelong Tumut is a small town in the Snowy Mountains, where Slabs’s family is from. It sits at the northern end of the Snowy Mountains Hydro scheme, alongside the Tumut River. We arrived mid Friday afternoon and picked up some lunch from a takeaway Slabs...
Canberra & NSW travel blog part 2: Canberra to Wagga
Canberra to Wagga Day 4 and 5: Wagga Wagga Our second destination on this week’s trip was Wagga Wagga, which, according to Visit NSW, is the largest island city in NSW, sitting on the Murrumbidgee River. It’s on Wiradjuri country. A sign at the visitor centre tells us that...
Week 16/2024: A recap of the week
Week of 15 April 2024 This is a quick summary of week 16 while I catch up with the travel blog posts from the Canberra and NSW trip. You can read the first travel blog post here. Week 16 summary Habit tracker 9.30 shutdown: 3/7 days 8,000 steps: 7/7...
Canberra & NSW travel blog part 1
Week of 15 April 2024 The first week of school holidays. This week we travelled to Canberra and New South Wales to celebrate a family member’s 80th birthday. Canberra & NSW travel blog part 1: Canberra Day 1: Arriving in Canberra The first leg of our trip was a...
Week 14/2024: More photowalking
Week of 1 April 2024 This was week 2 of the Easter break. Photowalking in the city Macquarie Street On Monday I set out early in the morning to take advantage of the public holiday and make some photos in Macquarie Street without the traffic. My main goal was...
Week 10/2024: Stop clearing the decks
Week of 4 March 2024 At the risk of sounding like I’m turning my learnings from Four Thousand Weeks into a project, I tried one of the strategies in the book this week. Another 4,000 weeks post Stop clearing the decks (part 1) Not clearing the decks is one...
Week 3/2024: A week of theatre
Theatrical happenings Week of 15 January 2024 We came home from our shortened, belated Christmas with family on Monday. This week’s weather was up and down, with Tuesday being very hot, followed by rain storms on Wednesday. After a spectacular sunrise. My week involved going back to work, setting...
Week 50/2023: Modernism and macros
Modernism and macros Week of 11 December 2023 Marvellous modernism This week I worked on blog posts about the modernism walking tour Lil Sis and I did with architect Bronwen Jones as part of Open House Hobart. There was so much material, I had to split it into two...
Week 49/2023: Tis the season of the agapanthus
Agapanthus season Week of 4 December 2023 I have this fascination with agapanthus, which grows everywhere in my suburb. It’s one of the most ugly plants I know, and I despise seeing the massive flower heads everywhere I walk. Agapanthus praecox ssp. orientalis is native to Southern Africa and...
Week 45/2023 (part 2): Art and walking
A quick post to catch up Week of 6 November 2023 I split my Week 45 post into two because Architectural Drawing was such a big post. That was followed by Open House Hobart weekend, which is going to be a series of posts on my photoblog. So this...