Category: autumn

Week 18/2024: Walnuts and climate wars

Week of 22 April 2024 Walnuts and climate wars As well as walnuts and climate wars, which I’ll get to in a bit, this was an entertaining week. Slabs and I went to see Dawn French is a Huge Twat at Wrest Point and Kramstable went to Melbourne with...

Week 15/2024: Davey street

Week of 8 April 2024 This week was back to normal after a couple of short weeks for Easter.  Well, normal in the sense that I had my regular five days of work and my weekend family visit. Cool non-normal stuff happened too! Wandering in Davey Street Hobart street...

Week 20/2023: Photos of the week

Week of 15 May 2023 Photos of the week Or some photos I liked this week. City to Casino Lil Sis, Kramstable and I took part in the 50th City to Casino fun run on Sunday morning. Kramstable ran; Lil Sis and I walked. It was freezing, and when...

Week 18/2023: Walnuts!

Week of 1 May 2023 Coaldale walnuts open day This week, our friend Lizzie invited me and Lil Sis to the open day at Coaldale Walnuts at Richmond. I’d vaguely heard of Coaldale but I didn’t know anything about it, or even where it was, until Sunday. I definitely...

Week 15/2023: The air we breathe

Week of 10 April 2023 I love short weeks! I mean, with a public holiday the week isn’t any shorter but I have more of it to myself. So it’s actually a longer week from that perspective. We had visitors over the easter break and what else do you...

Week 13/2023: Making a backup

Week of 27 March 2023 Tranquility by Tuesday: Create a backup slot I’ve been writing about setting up my week so I can fit my new writing habit on three times during the week. This is explained in chapter 4 of Laura Vanderkam’s book Tranquility by Tuesday, which I’m...

21 for 2021: week 17 update

Week 17/2021: week of 26 April 2021 I  had a lovely day out with my sister and her friend at Mt Field National Park on Saturday, which was great because I could forget all about my to-do list and concentrate on  not rolling my injured ankle clambering over large...

21 for 2021: week 16

Week 16/2021: week of 19 April This week I started Chapter 4 of the Change Journal, which is called the Circle Trick. This is a technique by Sigur∂ur Ármannsson,  which Tim Jaudszims, the Change Journal author, says he has modified a bit. It asks you to list your tasks...

20 for 2020: week 21

Week 21: Week of 18 May My 20 for 2020 list. After I handed my uni assignment in last Sunday (thing 8) I felt completely drained and flat and certainly not inspired to start thinking about the rest of the work and the next assignment, which I think is...

20 for 2020: week 17

Week 17: week of 20 April My 20 for 2020 list. This was another slow week for my 20 for 2020 list. There are some things I won’t be able to do while we are in death virus lockdown, such as getting my sewing machine fixed (thing 2) and...