Week 48/2025: Tas Writers MiniFest
Week of 24 November 2025 The week started off great and ended with me succumbing to a head cold on Sunday. 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 real human...
Week 42/2025: A week off
Week of 13 October 2025 I had this week off work. Hurrah! It was the week after school holidays. It’s weird. Now I don’t have a school-age child living at home, I have no idea when school holidays is and the only way I notice is there is less...
Week 39/2025: Writing a short story in a day
Week of 22 September 2025 This post includes a copy of my recent post on Substack about a recent short story writing workshop with Angela Slatter, so if you follow my writing blog over there you may have already read this. But there’s also my usual weekly update of...
Week 24/2025: Hearing trials and a day off
Week of 9 June 2025 Holidays and hearing 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 real human voice. A day off Thanks to the people who make public holidays, we...
Week 23/2025: Creative and critical
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 real human voice. Week of 2 June 2025 An interesting week. This happened in Parliament. ISLAND The Menzies Institute for Medical Research, which...
Week 48/2024: Endings
Week of 25 November 2024 This week I was tired. Things just didn’t work out. I didn’t sleep enough, I hurt myself exercising, I am very tired, and to top the week off a family member who I don’t live with, but had visited the day before, tested positive...
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 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...
Tasmania reads
Tasmania Reads: Try something new Tasmania Reads week is an annual week of events to promote and celebrate the art of reading across Tasmania. It’s run by Libraries Tasmania and this year’s theme was to “try something new”, which might include reading a new genre, a different author or...
Week 19/2023: It feels like
Week of 8 May 2023 It feels like The weeks are going by so fast and there’s no way of slowing anything down. Before I’ve had time to process one week, the next week has started and before I know it, that’s over too, and I’ve done nothing I...