Week 26/2023: Pilates and shoulders and habits
Week of 26 June 2023 Atomic Habits Part 6 Starting Pilates I started my physio-supervised Pilates program last week. How it works is, the physiotherapist has two clients sharing an appointment. This means she can set one person up with their first exercise and make sure they’re okay, then...
A weekend retreat: Mount Field National Park
Mount Field National Park Week 24/2023 (part 2): Week of 19 June 2023 When we lived in the Derwent Valley (it seems so long ago now), we used to take the occasional trip to Mount Field National Park. Sometimes for short walks, sometimes to camp overnight. Prior to colonisation,...
Sustainable living weekend
The Big Weekend of Sustainable Living Ideas On Saturday, Lil Sis and I went to Sustainable Living Tasmania’s Big Weekend of Sustainable Living Ideas, which was held across two venues in Bridgewater. SLT put on free buses from the city to Bridgewater so it was no trouble at all...
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 38/2021: a bird’s life
Week of 20 September 2021 What did I want to do better this week? Be more mindful and observant, and start to develop my capacity to explore. So, how did that go? I suppose like any new habit, paying more attention will take time to ingrain itself. But I...
21 for 2021: week 16
Week 16/2021: week of 19 April This week I started Chapter 4 of the Change Journal, which is called the Circle Trick. This is a technique by Sigur∂ur Ármannsson, which Tim Jaudszims, the Change Journal author, says he has modified a bit. It asks you to list your tasks...
Day 10: No time no place to talk about the weather
Day 10: No time no place to talk about the weather Te Anau, New Zealand Te Anau, New Zealand Everything was go for our trip to Milford Sound this morning. We’d been checking the weather for this day ever since we’d arrived and it was going to be the...
Day 2: Christchurch
Day 2: Christchurch Christchurch, New Zealand Christchurch, New Zealand Day 2 began where Day 1 left off – on a plane! We got into Christchurch just after midnight. From there it was a fairly simple matter of getting through Customs, explaining what all the “yes” boxes were that we’d...
P365 – Day 285 – excursion (12/10/2011)
Juniordwarf’s class went on its first excursion today. A bus trip to a nearby wildlife sanctuary, Bonorong Park. The school asked for parents to go along and help out, and I decided to volunteer. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from a day with 40 or so kids,...
P365 – Day 78 my little piece of paradise
Regular visitors to pastpresentfuture might remember my post about the jungle down the side of Slabs’ shed. To recap, our back yard has a fenced off section behind Slabs’ home brew shed that is ‘mine’. I have my own tin shed, a sort of paved area out the front...