Week 51/2025: A nightmare of cyclical proportions
Week of 15 December 2025 As we edge closer to the solstice, I feel unsettled, edgy, and things happen that throw me right out. And they aren’t, in the grand scheme of things, that bad. There’s a lot lot worse happening in the world. A lot. But I am...
Week 46/2025: Falcons fledge
Week of 16 November 2025 This was kind of a slow week. Not much happened in my world. I went to work and my acting class. Not a lot going on here. This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing....
Week 41/2025: Too loud
Week of 6 October 2025 It was a loud week. Too loud. I didn’t do much. Sometimes it’s good to chill a bit. This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my...
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 01/2025: Activities for a new year
Week of 30 December 2024 It feels weird to call this week 1 because it started in 2024. But hey, my diary says it’s week 1, and I’m beholden to a paper planner, so week 1 it is. This week was half a week of holidays, two days of...
Week 5/2024: Dreamworld
Week of 29 January 2024 I had a couple of fun nights out this week. Here’s the story of one of them. Pet Shop Boys I have loved Pet Shop Boys since I first saw them on Countdown in 1986. (Might actually have been the original release of ‘Opportunities’...
Week 51/2023: ‘Twas the week before christmas
The last week of work for 2023 Week of 18 December 2023 The 21st of December Gravy Day. What started as a greeting on December 21 in the official Paul Kelly email group (this is how long it’s been going) is now kind of a mainstream(ish) Thing. Someone else...
Week 40/2023: We’re half-way there
Week of 2 October 2023 Point to Pinnacle: We’re half-way there Go on, you know you want to sing it . . . Walk preparation, week 6 It’s now been six weeks since I started preparing for the Point to Pinnacle walk on 19 November. There are six weeks...
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 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,...