Week 34/2022: Antarctica
Week of 22 August Antarctica I went to TMAG on Sunday to see some photo exhibitions that were part of the Australian Antarctic Festival, which was held over the weekend. I was especially fascinated by the photos from Dutch photographer René Koster, who had travelled to Antarctica on a...
Week 32/2022: Joyful movement
Week of 8 August 2022 Joyful movement After writing about movement a few weeks ago, I started thinking about my walking habit. Walking is one of the things that I do. My habit has been to get up early and go for a walk before anyone else is up...
Week 30/2022: Goodnight, good neighbours
Week of 25 July 2022 To Pauline Hanson, Goodnight, good neighbours When I did my first solo trip to Melbourne in the mid-90s, I told my friends there were three things I absolutely had to do. To go to Hanging Rock, to see the floral clock and to visit...
Week 28/2022: A nightmare on Scoby Street
Week of 11 July 2022 Nightmare on Scoby Street A scoby, if you’re unfamiliar with the world of kombucha, is a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. It’s the thing that turns the sugar in the kombucha tea brew into kombucha. It’s a thick, slimy, flat pancake-type thing that...