Week 26/2026: The Trial
Week of 22 June 2026 If you’ve been following me for a while you might know I signed up for acting classes a couple of years ago. My current drama school has mid-year and end of year performances for all its classes. That’s ten classes learning, rehearsing and performing...
Week 23/2026: I eat the stars
Week of 1 June 2026 A few years ago I read Sarah Wilson’s book on the climate catastrophe, This Wild and Precious Life, and I wrote a blog post about it at the start of 2021. I wrote about how every year, everyone kept wanting to chalk up the...
Week 22/2026: Island readers and writers festival
Week of 25 May 2026 This week was the inaugural Island Readers and Writers Festival, a “five-day celebration of literature, story-telling and creating connection” here in Nipaluna/Hobart. It was presented by Island, the organisation behind the literary magazine of the same name. The festival had a range of events...
Week 06/2025: World wetlands day
Week of 2 February 2026 World Wetlands Day was on 2 February. Wetlands, according to the definition on the official site, are land areas that are saturated or flooded with water either permanently or seasonally. They include inland wetlands such as marshes, lakes and swamps, coastal wetlands such as...
Week 16/2025: The week that was
Week of 14 April 2025 The week that was I feel like the things I should be writing about are too big and too overwhelming and changing so fast that I can’t keep up even thinking about them, let alone writing about them. The US descent into fascism. The...
Week 18/2024: Walnuts and climate wars
Week of 22 April 2024 Walnuts and climate wars As well as walnuts and climate wars, which I’ll get to in a bit, this was an entertaining week. Slabs and I went to see Dawn French is a Huge Twat at Wrest Point and Kramstable went to Melbourne with...
Week 1/2024 (part 1): All of the ham
Week of 1 January 2024 Cooking with ham Because I was unwell (and still am), Saturday was my first cooking day since Christmas day. I decided to cook a dish using ham. Why? Well, Kramstable had brought home a gigantic ham this week from work. It was bigger than...
Week 44/2021: i’m not listening
Week 44/2021: Week of 1 November 2021 I’m not listening I felt better this week than I did last week and finally went to see my physio needle massage therapist (I’m not sure that this is his official job, but it works for me.) He had been in the...
Week 34/2021: observe
Week 34/2021: Week of 23 August 2021 What did I want to do better this week? Walking. Mornings and afternoons. So, how did that go then? I went for a walk every morning and every afternoon except Monday. I’m counting walks that have an actual purpose as well as...
Week 33/2021: Swimming in the mud
Week 33/2021: Week of 16 August 2021 This week I was lucky to go on a road trip to the north of the state with a colleague to meet some people working on some of the same things we’re working on. Our first stop was Smithton, my home town....