Category: books

Week 23/2025: Creative and critical

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. Week of 2 June 2025 An interesting week. This happened in Parliament. ISLAND The Menzies Institute for Medical Research, which...

Week 18/2025: Rainbows, walnuts and a cat

Week of 28 April I had a lot going on this week. Tiring but good. Rainbows, walnuts and a cat The Boy Beyond the Rainbow Friday night’s adventure was to the Studio Theatre to see Rod Anderson’s one-man show The Boy Beyond the Rainbow. Rod is, apparently, a bit...

Week 17/2025: A week off

Week of 21 April 2025 This year Anzac Day fell in the same week as Easter. A lovely week off I was one of those fortunate people who was in a position to take annual leave on Wednesday and Thursday to give me a ten-day break between Easter Friday...

Week 05/2024: Cheese and noodles

Week of 27 January 2025 This Sunday was the last day I got to cook mac and cheese aka cheese and noodles (or was it cheesy noodles?) for Kramstable. (If you’ve been reading along, Kramstable is about to leave home to go to university in Melbourne. It’s been a...

Week 47/2024: Photos of the week

Week of 18 November 2024 This wasn’t a super exciting week. Here are some photos. Photos of the week Historic Fisheries Research Centre in Battery Point I must have walked past this a hundred times and never noticed it. This shed is the only building remaining from Tasmania’s first...

Week 46/2024: Recovery week

Week of 11 November 2024 I was tired this week after two busy weekends in a row so I wanted to take it easy. That worked well, apart from a hurried trip into town very early on Monday morning. The light was nice though. Trans awareness week 13-19 November...

Week 38/2024: Mind and meditations

Week of 16 September 2024 I went to see Kramstable’s play twice this week. The shape of mind and meditations The Shape of Mind This week Kramstable was in a production with his outside school drama class at Helen O’Grady Drama Academy. He’s been with them since he was...

Week 36/2024: Spring architecture and reading

Week of 2 September 2024 Welcome to spring! Spring architecture and reading Conservatorium Further from my post about the ABC building once-was-Utas-Conservatorium last week, I recently became aware that the transmission tower has gone. If I’d been paying attention I could tell you when it happened, but I only...

Week 19/2024: Supremely judgmental

Supremely judgmental Week of 6 May 2024 This week was the 200th anniversary celebrations for the Supreme Court of Tasmania. And Sunday was Mother’s Day. Supreme Court My favourite building It’s no secret that my favourite building in Hobart (that is still standing) is the Supreme Court. And on...

Week 17/2024: Somatic stagecraft

Week of 22 April 2024 It was a quiet week. I had Monday off to recover from the holiday and Thursday was a public holiday. Somatic Stagecraft On Saturday I went to a workshop called Somatic Stagecraft with Jem Nicholas and Bec Tilley. Jem is an Alexander Technique teacher,...