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,...
Week 36/2023: Eleven weeks to go
Point to Pinnacle: Eleven weeks to go Week of 4 September 2023 Stop sitting! This was my second week of my gradual return to work following weeks of trying to deal with my back/leg/nerve injury, whatever it is. It’s still reminding me that I’m not at full fitness and...
Week 35/2023: Barb and the Mountain
Barb and the Mountain Week of 28 August 2023 How it started Some years ago (five to be exact), I reached a goal I had set for myself the previous year of walking to the summit of kunanyi/Mt Wellington. This was the Point to Pinnacle 2018, which starts at...