Canberra & NSW travel blog part 1
Week of 15 April 2024 The first week of school holidays. This week we travelled to Canberra and New South Wales to celebrate a family member’s 80th birthday. Canberra & NSW travel blog part 1: Canberra Day 1: Arriving in Canberra The first leg of our trip was a...
Week 30/2023: A week at home. And going out too many times.
Week of 24 July 2023 A week at home The care factor As I wrote last week, Slabs had a surgery that has meant he’s been off his feet all week. The original plan was I would work from home this week to be able to help him with...
Week 28/2023: Backs and shoulders, arms and eyes (part 2)
Week of 10 July 2023 Backs and shoulders. Well, really, just backs. This is where I write an update about how great I’m doing with my shoulder exercises and how much better my back is feeling right? Well, actually no. Nothing has got better and, if anything, it’s got...
Week 24/2023: Modern times and creole food
Week of 12 June 2023 (part 1) A busy week(end) This was such a busy weekend I’m splitting it over two posts. Modern times A friend told me about an exhibition at the Handmark Gallery they thought I’d be interested in, so I took some time on Friday to...
Tassievore eat local challenge – feast day!
Yesterday was feast day! I learned last time I held a Tassievore feast not to be too ambitious. I’d thought about including a dessert on the menu like I did last time, but decided in the end it would make things too busy for me. I could have made...
Fairy dust and wormwood
Fairy dust and wormwood Port Fairy, Australia Port Fairy, Australia Today was a short distance to travel – only about 100 km from the Twelve Apostles to Port Fairy, but it took several hours because there’s so much to see on the way. After yesterday’s disappointing viewing of the...
Book 7/24: One Magic Square
I’ve had this book, One Magic Square: Grow your own food on one square metre by Lolo Houbein, on my bookshelf for several years. I bought it because the concept of being able to grow food by starting small, in a one metre by one metre square, appealed to...
Book 6/24: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
I’ll start this post with a confession: I’ve never read any of Barbara Kingsolver’s novels, although I’ve long been intrigued by titles like The Poisonwood Bible and Pigs In Heaven. I first saw this book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life on Instagram, where one of my...
Tassievore Eat Local Challenge Week 1 – Food Forager
I’ve been busy walking this week, so I haven’t given the Tassievore Eat Local Challenge my full attention. I wrote a post about getting started last week, and have been doing what I can for Week 1’s challenge, which has been to “seek out Tasmanian food and drinks ....
Tassievore Challenge – off we go!
As well as Walk in Her Shoes month, March is the Tassievore Eat Local Challenge month. The Tassievore Challenge is all about encouraging people to eat local food and to explore new places to get Tasmanian food from. There are 4 mini challenges over the month to give people...