Week 43/2023: Onward we walk
Onward we walk . . . Week of 23 October 2023 How do the weeks go so quickly? Thursday was Hobart Show Day. I know some people have a bit of a whinge about having a public holiday on a Thursday so it’s not really a long weekend unless...
Week 41/2023: Strange days
It was a strange week Week of 9 October 2023 School holiday fun (and not so fun) moments It started off well enough. It was the second week of school holidays and Kramstable and I went to see Barbie at the wonderful State Cinema. It was a fun day....
Week 40/2023: We’re half-way there
Week of 2 October 2023 Point to Pinnacle: We’re half-way there Go on, you know you want to sing it . . . Walk preparation, week 6 It’s now been six weeks since I started preparing for the Point to Pinnacle walk on 19 November. There are six weeks...
Week 39/2023: Heartbreak
Heartbreak: The oak and the plover Week of 25 September 2023 The oak When Kramstable left primary school in 2018, his school gave each of the year 6 leavers an oak sapling descended from its oak tree as a memory of their time there. I wrote about it at...
Week 38/2023: Point to Pinnacle: One month in
Barb and the Mountain: Month one update Week of 18 September 2023 Point to Pinnacle: One month in My goal for the end of the first month of my Preparing for the Point to Pinnacle Program was to walk seven kilometres. This is about a third of the distance...
Week 37/2023: Airmail
The first airmail service from Tasmania Week of 11 September 2023 The things you find in piles of old papers Looking through some of my mother’s papers on the weekend, I discovered a letter written to my grandmother, who was living in Melbourne, from her brother, my great uncle,...
Week 35/2023: Barb and the Mountain
Barb and the Mountain Week of 28 August 2023 How it started Some years ago (five to be exact), I reached a goal I had set for myself the previous year of walking to the summit of kunanyi/Mt Wellington. This was the Point to Pinnacle 2018, which starts at...
Week 34/2023: Life is pain, Highness
Week of 21 August 2023 (part 1) Life is pain, Highness Anyone who says differently is selling something. I’m writing this week’s post in two parts because one part is great and one is . . . Not. Let’s get the misery out of the way first. Week 34...
Week 33/2023: It all came crashing down
Week of 14 August 2023 When everything comes crashing down Remember last week, I said everything was coming along well with my back injury and I’d been feeling really good. We finished clearing out Mum’s flat and I had a nice relaxing weekend, ready to go back to work...
Week 32/2023: The big clean out
Week of 7 August 2023 Clearing out family memories If last week was frantic, and overwhelming, this week was a roller coaster that had a lot of steep descents. Everything had to be out of Mum’s place by Thursday so the cleaners could come in on Friday to have...