Week 31/2022: On birds and zinc
Week of 1 August 2022 On birds and zinc Friday was the start of the Beaker Street Festival, which is a ten-day science extravaganza across lutruwita/Tasmania. Lil Sis and I signed up to the session “Science and Storytelling at the Zinc Works” on Sunday, which was held at the...
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...
Week 27/2022: The (not so great) restart
Week of 4 July 2022 The (not so) great restart My mid-year review last week is supposed to set me up for the next three months at least and I have my three key areas to focus on during this time. I also wanted to get back into my...
Week 26/2022: I’m reviewing the situation
Week of 27 June 2022 I’m reviewing the situation When I made my 22 for 2022 list, I grouped the 22 things under the three areas where I wanted to make progress in the first three months of 2022: supporting my body and mind engaging in meaningful work exploring Half...
Week 25/2022: I finished!
Week of 20 June 2022 I finished! As I wrote last week, I handed in my practical learning session for my TAFE literacy tutoring course (thing 8) that Kramstable had helped me with last Sunday. All I needed to do to complete the course this week was to make...
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...
Week 23/2022: Catching my breath
Week of 6 June 2022 Catching my breath This was a week where some stuff happened to other people, work went on and it was really cold. It was another week where I had to lower my expectations of what I could get done because I didn’t feel like...
Making space (part 2)
The daily pause and the dreaded phone A few weeks ago, I wrote about my thinking on how I might incorporate a daily pause into my life. This idea comes from the book Spacemaker by Daniel Sih, and it’s about finding moments within your day where you deliberately don’t...
Week 22/2022: Recovery mode
Week of 30 May 2022 Recovery mode I’m not very good at resting when I’m sick. My usual approach is as soon as I feel a little bit better, I start right back where I left off without making sure I’m fully recovered. Sometimes it’s been okay but, as...