Week 51/2025: A nightmare of cyclical proportions
Week of 15 December 2025 As we edge closer to the solstice, I feel unsettled, edgy, and things happen that throw me right out. And they aren’t, in the grand scheme of things, that bad. There’s a lot lot worse happening in the world. A lot. But I am...
Week 09/2025: The comfort zone
Week of 24 February 2025 This week I did a couple of things that I’m really proud of doing because they were a little (or a lot) outside my comfort zone. Heading out of the comfort zone . . . Pier+Review On Sunday evening I went along to Andy...
Week 8/2024: Sandstone and dancing
Week of 19 February 2024 I had another busy weekend, doing some cool activities Richmond Open House Richmond was a one-off Open House organised to fit in with Richmond’s bicentenary celebrations running from December 2023 to March 2024. Mumirimina A sobering but important part of this is the Mumirimina:...
Week 48/2023: Back to the theatre
It’s December already Week of 27 November 2023 Back to the theatre Way back August (it seems so long ago now), I wrote about my acting class and our performance in Hobart’s One Fest. It was a wonderful experience to work on a play and perform it in an...
Week 45/2023 (part 1): Architectural drawing
Architectural drawing Week of 6 November 2023 (Part 1) Another comfort zone challenge In August, I wrote about how I’d planned to do 23 comfort zone challenges for 2023, and how my acting class was one of those challenges. I had another opportunity to do something way out of...
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 2: Window shopping
Week 02/2023: Week of 9 January 2023 Windows My house was built in 1951. It had steel window frames that opened sideways in the same way doors open. When we bought the house, the windows were one of the features I fell in love with. Unfortunately, the fames were...
The meh week got exciting
Week 01/2023: Week of 2 January 2023 The meh week If week 52 is the void week (a description I read somewhere that describes the week between Christmas and New Year for those of us who are lucky to have off when we don’t know what day it is...
Four thousand weeks
Embracing my finitude and living my life I wrote about the book Four Thousand Weeks several times earlier this year and I felt like I had to write a post about it because it has the potential to change my life. But I kept putting it off and wondering...