Week 30/2023: A week at home. And going out too many times.
Week of 24 July 2023 A week at home The care factor As I wrote last week, Slabs had a surgery that has meant he’s been off his feet all week. The original plan was I would work from home this week to be able to help him with...
Week 24/2023: Modern times and creole food
Week of 12 June 2023 (part 1) A busy week(end) This was such a busy weekend I’m splitting it over two posts. Modern times A friend told me about an exhibition at the Handmark Gallery they thought I’d be interested in, so I took some time on Friday to...
Week 24/2022: Thank you for the public holiday, The Queen
Week of 13 June 2022 Thank you for the public holiday, The Queen It’s Friday and I’m behind on my posts. I’ve been ordered to rest, so I’m posting as much as I’ve already written for this week and leaving it at that. I had some thoughts on my...
A threesome of vegetables
Thing 2 of my 21 from 2021 list is to choose a different vegetable every week from the book In Praise of Veg and make a recipe from the book using that vegetable. Some of these cooking adventures have been long enough to make a whole post about them...
21 for 2021: week 7
Week 7/2021: week of 15 February 2021 21 for 2021 updateThis was my first “normal” week for about a month. “Normal” as in school was back and I was at work all week. None of those annoying public holidays to muck up my routine. Ha. My first thing this...
21 for 2021: week 1
Week 1/2021: week of 4 January 2021My 21 for 2021 list. This was my first week back at work so I decided it was as good a time as any to get back into the pre-work planning routine from the LifeHack program (thing 20). The video suggests following the...
Tassievore eat local challenge – feast day 1
A few weeks ago Sustainable Living Tasmania launched the Living Local Feast challenge. Having been a keen participant in Tassievore Eat Local Challenge in 2014, which culminated in an actual dinner party, I toyed with signing up again this year. Lil Sis strongly encouraged me asked me if I was...
Tassievore Eat Local Challange – Week 4: Tassievore Dinner Party
Once I’d finished my epic 12 km walk on Saturday, it was time to start preparing my feast for the Tassievore Eat Local Challenge. This was Week 4’s mini-challenge: to have a dinner party where all the food is from Tasmania. I’ll put my confessions up front. The butter...
Tassievore Eat Local Challenge: Week 2: Support local business
I started to write a post that summarised what I’ve done this week for the Tassievore Eat Local Challenge and quickly realised it was going to be pretty much all about one local business. So for the first part of Week 2, I’m writing about we did on Saturday...
P365 – Day 153 going out for dinner
Neither of us felt like cooking dinner tonight, so we treated ourselves to a rare night out and went to the pub for dinner. The Bush Inn, apparently Australia’s oldestcontinuously licensed hotel...