Week 34/2024: A quieter week
A quieter week Week of 19 August 2024 After the excitement of the Stranger Sings! opening week, this was a quieter week. Stranger Sings lives This was the second and final week of performances and yes, I did go again. Twice. I loved it just as much as I...
Week 33/2024: Singing strangely
Stranger Sings! Week of 12 August 2024 This week was the culmination of six months work by Kramstable and his college classmates, when they had their first performances of their musical, Stranger Sings! So this week is all about that. The parody musical When Hobart College announced last year...
Week 22/2024: Hacking and journalling
Week of 27 May 2024 Hacking and journalling There were two highlights this week, both of which meant I had to drive a car to get there. (I dislike driving and avoid it wherever possible so you’ll know if I drive somewhere I either have no choice or it’s...
Week 20/2024: Artrage
Week of 13 May 2024 ArtRage 2023 On Thursday I went to the ArtRage exhibition at the Salamanca Arts Centre. The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) in Launceston curates this annual exhibition, which showcases art from the previous year’s students from years 11 and 12 across Tasmania....
Week 13/2024: Photowalking
Week of 25 March 2024 A quiet week, with a couple of very high points. It was a long weekend for Easter so I got a chance to go out walking with my camera. Photowalking: A weekend of photos Friday I look at the morning skies from the window...
Week 42/2023: Queer art and quirky architecture
Queer Art and Quirky Architecture Week of 16 October 2023 Artfully Queer This week marked the start of TasPride’s annual Artfully Queer exhibition at the Salamanca Long Gallery. This is a fabulous exhibition of work from Tasmanian lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* & queer artists, with the theme this year...
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 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 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 14/2023: A slow, painful week
Week of 3 April 2023 A slow down This week I was going to try out Laura Vanderkam’s idea of creating backup slots in my week to allow for unexpected things that might derail me. I didn’t end up doing it because Friday was a holiday and I didn’t...