Week 34/2023 (part 2): Medieval medicine
Week of 21 August 2023 Medieval medicine How it started At the start of the year, I said I wanted to make my 23 for 2023 list into a comfort zone challenge. (If you aren’t familiar with the 23 for 2023 list, I got the idea from Gretchen Rubin...
Week 22/2023: A weekend of theatre
Week of 29 May 2023 A weekend of theatre! The SpongeBob Musical Kramstable was in his school’s production of The SpongeBob Musical, which they’ve been working on since school started in February. No, I didn’t know SpongeBob was a musical either until Kramstable told me that’s what they were...
Week 18/2022: Shapeshifting
Week of 2 May 2022 Shapeshifting on a Sunday afternoon On Sunday afternoon, Slabs and I went to a show called “What Shall I Become?”, which was “a collaboration between Miss Honey Child (Toni Burnett-Rands), Tamas Oszvald and Tapir: a spoken word performance based on traditional folk tales about...
Cold weather blues
Cold weather blues Adelaide, Australia Adelaide, Australia Us, when planning the holiday: “Let’s go in winter. Then there won’t be too many people around.” Enter the worst storms in the region for 30 years. An excellent plan indeed. We could hear the wind whistling down the corridor of the...
Don’t pay the ferryman
Don’t pay the ferryman Victor Harbor, Australia Victor Harbor, Australia And so the predicted bad weather came upon us like torrential rain and gale-force winds, and we were safely tucked up in a cabin at the caravan park feeling not the least bit sorry for the people in campers....
Holiday Day 2 (Part 1): Tasmazia
This morning we had breakfast in Sheffield before having a last look at the murals and heading for Tasmazia and the Village of Lower Crackpot, about 15 minutes away in the wonderfully named Promised Land. On the way I insisted we stop to take photos of Mt Roland. It’s...
A right royal day out
A right royal day out London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom ‘When’s the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace?’ asked Lil Sis on the day we arrived in London. It turns out this happens every second day during autumn and winter, and this matched up nicely with our...
Roller Derby – 2 August
Convict City Rollers v Devil State Derby League – a lesson on why it’s important to check your shutter speed....
adventuring: the theatre royal
(Apologies for photo quality . . . I forgot my camera, so these were all taken on my almost three-year-old iPhone 4.) After my excursion to Knocklofty, I walked down to Campbell Street to do the tour of the Theatre Royal. This was another one of those things I’d...
they might be giants
They Might Be Giants plays Hobart I’m fortunate enough to have seen three of my all-time top-five musical artists live. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve seen Paul Kelly live – the most recent was in 2011 for one of his A to Z shows. ...