A weekend retreat: Mount Field National Park
Mount Field National Park Week 24/2023 (part 2): Week of 19 June 2023 When we lived in the Derwent Valley (it seems so long ago now), we used to take the occasional trip to Mount Field National Park. Sometimes for short walks, sometimes to camp overnight. Prior to colonisation,...
Sydney travel blog day 6
Friday 20 January 2023: The final day Art Gallery of NSW It was raining, so a morning photowalk to have another look at some of the houses on Coogee Beach Road wasn’t going to happen. Instead I decided to visit the Art Gallery of NSW, which meant a second...
Sydney travel blog day 5
Thursday 19 January 2023 More Randwick Art Deco It was a gloomy overcast morning after the overnight rain. I decided to go out to find the last building from the Randwick Art Deco walk, the one I’d misidentified yesterday as having been demolished. This was 132 Alison Road, which...
Sydney travel blog day 4
Wednesday 18 January 2023 Too hot to do anything Today, the news reported gleefully, people in Sydney would enjoy their first day of 30 degrees for almost a year. Hooray? The words “enjoy” and “30 degrees” do not belong in the same sentence any more than the word “enjoy”...
Sydney travel blog day 3
Tuesday 17 January 2023 Randwick Art Deco According to the handy Randwick Art Deco Walk brochure from Randwick City Council, in the 1920s-1940s, when Art Deco was particularly popular, there was an “explosion of residential building activity in Randwick and Coogee, catering for the boom in population between the...
Sydney travel blog day 1
Sunday 15 January 2023 Travel blogging is still a thing Back in the days when TravelPod was a thing, I used to write travel blogs whenever I went on holiday. It was a fun way to keep track of where I’d been, what I’d done and what I’d seen....
20 for 2020: week 28
Week of 6 July My 20 for 2020 list. I had been looking forward to this week for a long time. After the chaos of last week at work and spending the entire weekend working on my uni assignment (thing 8) that I had handed in with the mantra...
20 for 2020: week 3
Week of 13 January 2020 This was my last full week of work before school goes back so I am rather looking forward to some time off next week. This week, I rang the hearing centre and booked a hearing test (thing 16). They didn’t have any appointment for...
Silence
Today I picked up a copy of the free magazine published by Penguin Books, underline, which had a feature on a book called Silence: In the Age of Noise by the Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge. I had never heard of Mr Kagge before today, but according to the magazine,...
What I learned this week
30 days of yoga is going well. I’m now 14 days into the challenge and I haven’t missed a day so far. I’ve had to incorporate my back exercises into my practice, because whatever I did to my back has either stirred up my old injury or resulted in...