Week 48/2025: Tas Writers MiniFest
Week of 24 November 2025 The week started off great and ended with me succumbing to a head cold on Sunday. 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...
Week 29/2025: Another election and another notebook
Week of 14 July 2025 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. Another election This week moved along with nothing terribly exciting happening. Unless you want to...
Week 32/2024: Returning to exercise
Week of 5 August 2024 Nerding and exercising This was another quiet week. I caught up with a friend on Saturday, and we went to an event at the Beaker Street festival. That was fun. Returning to exercise This week, we return to my disjointed account of attempting to...
Week 29/2024: Walking in stormy weather
Week of 15 July 2024 This week reminded us it was still winter. Stormy weather . . . . . . is not going to stop me walking The weather at the start of the week was cold, wet and windy. There were forecasts for 40 mm of rain,...
Week 12/2024: Sea songs and chicken homes
Week of 18 March 2024 After a fabulous Tasmania Reads week, I got to exercise my democratic right to vote on Saturday. I’m leaving this election day outfit here. If you know, you know. Songs of the Sea I suppose you could say Friday night’s conversation about Tasmanian wild...
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 42/2023: Queer art and quirky architecture
Queer Art and Quirky Architecture Week of 16 October 2023 Artfully Queer This week marked the start of TasPride’s annual Artfully Queer exhibition at the Salamanca Long Gallery. This is a fabulous exhibition of work from Tasmanian lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* & queer artists, with the theme this year...
Week 27/2023: Backs and shoulders, arms and eyes
Week of 3 July 2023 Backs, shoulders and arms This week I was going to write about how well I was doing putting last week‘s shoulder exercise habits back into place. But, well, I’m not. Last weekend, I decided to very helpfully over-exert my back when I was emptying...
Week 25/2023: Winter solstice
Wintering doesn’t come easy Week of 19 June 2023 I like the idea of celebrating winter solstice in some way but it never seems to happen. The fault is entirely mine, of course. I don’t plan anything, and I certainly don’t like to go outside, which is what the...
Sustainable living weekend
The Big Weekend of Sustainable Living Ideas On Saturday, Lil Sis and I went to Sustainable Living Tasmania’s Big Weekend of Sustainable Living Ideas, which was held across two venues in Bridgewater. SLT put on free buses from the city to Bridgewater so it was no trouble at all...