12 of 12 September 2015
A boring Saturday at home. The first day of my “let’s try getting up earlier and doing some things I have to do in the morning instead of lazing around and then having to rush out the door at swimming time because I couldn’t be bothered having breakfast and...
12 of 12 May 2015
Better late than never . . . Today was forecast to be a day of wild weather, with severe weather warnings left right and centre. I was home today, which meant I had to make sure the fire stayed alight, that the buckets were under the right place in...
12 of 12 April 2015
Today was the Derwent Valley Autumn Festival, which is one of the biggest events held in the Valley each year. The weather forecast wasn’t sensational, but there wasn’t any rain or wind forecast, so we had everything crossed that it would be a nice day. It was a chilly...
Walk In Her Shoes – Day 7
Well, this is it – the end of a journey that started back in January when I signed up to do CARE Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes Challenge for the second year. Since then I’ve been gradually increasing my daily step goal from 13,000 in January to 25,000 for...
Walk In Her Shoes Challenge: Day 2
Day 2 of the Walk In Her Shoes challenge and the weather forecast wasn’t looking promising for getting out and walking a lot. It was still fine in the morning though, so I wanted to do as much as I could before the rain arrived. On this morning’s walk...
12 of 12 March 2015
Thursday was a pretty normal work day for me. Farewell morning tea for a colleague, who I’ve worked with on and off for almost 10 years. Lots of coffee. Walk at lunch time. It got to 20 degrees in the city, so it wasn’t too bad at all. I...
Week in review 2-8 March 2015/Walk in her shoes update
Last week’s goals: 21,000 steps per day: 7/7 days (average 22,900 steps a day) Go to bed before 11.45 pm: 6/7 days This week has been another busy training week for Walk in Her Shoes. I’m excited to have reached (and exceeded) my fundraising goal of $500, so a...
Tassievore Eat Local Challenge Week 1 – Food Forager
I’ve been busy walking this week, so I haven’t given the Tassievore Eat Local Challenge my full attention. I wrote a post about getting started last week, and have been doing what I can for Week 1’s challenge, which has been to “seek out Tasmanian food and drinks ....
Walk in Her Shoes Challenge Update – 2 weeks to go
This week I’m combining my weekly review (23 February – 1 March) with my Walk In Her Shoes Challenge update, because it was such an uneventful week except for that. Last week’s goals: 19,000 steps per day – 7/7 days, weekly total: 153,137 steps, average: 21,877 steps per day...
Week in review – 2-8 February 2015
Week Goals: 16,000 steps per day – achieved every day. Gold star for me! What we did: This week was almost back to normal. School went back on Wednesday, and you already know how I felt about that. Juniordwarf was with Slabs on Monday and I went to work....