Tag: Tasmania

Week 13/2025: Three (more) days on the island

8 April 2025
Week of 24 March 2025 Following last weekend’s Ten Days on the Island events, this week I attended more activities from this amazing festival. This weekend I went to live theatre, an on-Country experience and an art show. Three Days on the Island Friday: LIFE/CYCLE LIFE/CYCLE was the third...

Week 10/2025: An arty week

16 March 2025
Week of 3 March 2025 This week was an arty week! I visited some art exhibitions I’d been meaning to see for a while. I found some unexpected works too. An arty week Alex Wanders: gleanings This is the second of Alex’s exhibitions I’ve seen at Handmark Gallery. It...

Week 07/2025: A hot week

19 February 2025
Week of 10 February 2025 The first full week without Kramstable at home. Monday was a public holiday, which I really needed. It would have been hard to go to work the day after the day I’d been so sad. A hot week . . . and then not...

Week 05/2024: Cheese and noodles

8 February 2025
Week of 27 January 2025 This Sunday was the last day I got to cook mac and cheese aka cheese and noodles (or was it cheesy noodles?) for Kramstable. (If you’ve been reading along, Kramstable is about to leave home to go to university in Melbourne. It’s been a...

Week 04/2025: And so, to sleep

4 February 2025
Week of 20 January 2025 Part of week 4 is in this post about me continuing to come to terms with Kramstable getting ready to leave home. It’s getting closer and closer, but there are other things going on as well. This is the rest of the week. A...

Week 47/2024: Photos of the week

3 December 2024
Week of 18 November 2024 This wasn’t a super exciting week. Here are some photos. Photos of the week Historic Fisheries Research Centre in Battery Point I must have walked past this a hundred times and never noticed it. This shed is the only building remaining from Tasmania’s first...

Week 39/2024: Deco Tuesday

10 October 2024
Week of 23 September 2024 This was a busy week leading up to school holidays. Art Deco in Hobart Deco Tuesday On Tuesday I went with a group from the Friends of the Theatre Royal on a tour of Hobart’s art deco architecture. Led by FOTR’s Moya Deigan, a...

Week 26/ 2024: A tale of two food adventures

8 July 2024
Week of 24 June 2024 After a promising start to the week, where I was starting to feel I was getting my sleep under control, I came down with a cold virus (not covid or the flu or RSV or whatever else is going around). This put me out...

Week 25/2024: Winter art

27 June 2024
Week of 17 June 2024 This week I unexpectedly ended up looking at two very different artworks in Hobart. Winter art Sacrifice What are you willing to sacrifice for your salmon dinner? This is the question artists Jessica Coughlan and Amy Brown have asked visitors to Hobart’s waterfront in...

Week 19/2024: Supremely judgmental

15 May 2024
Supremely judgmental Week of 6 May 2024 This week was the 200th anniversary celebrations for the Supreme Court of Tasmania. And Sunday was Mother’s Day. Supreme Court My favourite building It’s no secret that my favourite building in Hobart (that is still standing) is the Supreme Court. And on...