Week 05/2024: Cheese and noodles
Week of 27 January 2025 This Sunday was the last day I got to cook mac and cheese aka cheese and noodles (or was it cheesy noodles?) for Kramstable. (If you’ve been reading along, Kramstable is about to leave home to go to university in Melbourne. It’s been a...
Week 41/2024: Recovery and plovers
Week of 7 October 2024 We were in Western Australia until Tuesday night but I’ll leave those updates for my travel blog posts, which will come sporadically over the next few weeks as I sort through my photos and notes from the trip. Recovery . . . and plovers...
Week 32/2024: Returning to exercise
Week of 5 August 2024 Nerding and exercising This was another quiet week. I caught up with a friend on Saturday, and we went to an event at the Beaker Street festival. That was fun. Returning to exercise This week, we return to my disjointed account of attempting to...
Week 23/2024: Pausing
Week of 3 June 2024 Pausing I’ve been wondering whether or not write a post on perimenopause. For most women, perimenopause is the stage when your hormones start to mess with you, leading up to actual menopause, which is defined as the point in time 12 months after your...
Week 10/2024: Stop clearing the decks
Week of 4 March 2024 At the risk of sounding like I’m turning my learnings from Four Thousand Weeks into a project, I tried one of the strategies in the book this week. Another 4,000 weeks post Stop clearing the decks (part 1) Not clearing the decks is one...
Week 1/2024 (part 2): Annual review
Week of 1 January 2024 Annual review: The week after the in-between week I was meant to go back to work this week. To clarify, I was supposed to have last week off, a public holiday on Monday, another day off on Tuesday, and go back to work on...
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 36/2023: Eleven weeks to go
Point to Pinnacle: Eleven weeks to go Week of 4 September 2023 Stop sitting! This was my second week of my gradual return to work following weeks of trying to deal with my back/leg/nerve injury, whatever it is. It’s still reminding me that I’m not at full fitness and...
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 27/2023: Backs and shoulders, arms and eyes
Week of 3 July 2023 Backs, shoulders and arms This week I was going to write about how well I was doing putting last week‘s shoulder exercise habits back into place. But, well, I’m not. Last weekend, I decided to very helpfully over-exert my back when I was emptying...