Week 19/2025: Exploding back pain
Week of 5 May 2025 I’ve been feeling a bit miserable this week. Ouch! Exploding back pain I hurt my back exercising last Saturday (flash back to this week . . . or this one . . . or . . . ) and had various health professionals tell...
Week 15/2025: I love autumn
Week of 7 April 2025 This week’s highlight was Kramstable coming home for a few days to receive an award from his college. It was so good to see him. And, of course, I was very proud and excited that his school recognised him for his amazing achievements (including...
Week 09/2025: The comfort zone
Week of 24 February 2025 This week I did a couple of things that I’m really proud of doing because they were a little (or a lot) outside my comfort zone. Heading out of the comfort zone . . . Pier+Review On Sunday evening I went along to Andy...
Week 47/2024: Photos of the week
Week of 18 November 2024 This wasn’t a super exciting week. Here are some photos. Photos of the week Historic Fisheries Research Centre in Battery Point I must have walked past this a hundred times and never noticed it. This shed is the only building remaining from Tasmania’s first...
Week 45/2024: More art and architecture
Week of 4 November 2024 Last week was about art, and this week was about more art and architecture as well. Art and architecture Art After seeing two art exhibitions last week, this week I decided to top it with five. It wasn’t deliberate. I was just in the...
Week 44/2024: Art and food
Week of 28 October 2024 The last public holiday before Christmas has gone, and we’re into the final two weeks of school for my Year 12 student. There are hints of warmer weather too. If I were a proper gardener, I’d be thinking about tomato plants. Weekend wanderings in...
Week 43/2024: Off to the hip physio
Week of 21 October 2024 This was Hobart Show week, so we got a day off on Thursday. Thanks, show that I never go to. A trip to the hip physio But first, a recap of my myriad injuries My old lady shoulder, which I was writing about at...
Week 40/2024: WA travel blog part 1
Week of 30 September 2024 A week of travel on the sunny west coast of Australia. Go West! Part one Day 1: To Perth As I wrote last week, we headed off on Sunday for a ten-day holiday to Western Australia. I’d been to WA twice previously, both times...
Week 39/2024: Deco Tuesday
Week of 23 September 2024 This was a busy week leading up to school holidays. Art Deco in Hobart Deco Tuesday On Tuesday I went with a group from the Friends of the Theatre Royal on a tour of Hobart’s art deco architecture. Led by FOTR’s Moya Deigan, a...
Week 36/2024: Spring architecture and reading
Week of 2 September 2024 Welcome to spring! Spring architecture and reading Conservatorium Further from my post about the ABC building once-was-Utas-Conservatorium last week, I recently became aware that the transmission tower has gone. If I’d been paying attention I could tell you when it happened, but I only...