Sunday Blog 224 – 1st March 2026 I’m in Hobart for a week – a few days’ work trip with several more of pleasure tacked on. To be in my 60th year and never having been to Tasmania before seems shameful, but I have a long list of places not yet visited. So now that …
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Analogue writing
Sunday Blog 223 – 22 Feb 2026 This is my love note to handwriting. At some point in my school life, possibly in primary school, I developed a writer’s bump on my right hand. As someone who can be spatially challenged, I have by now an almost unconscious habit of touching my right hand to …
Letting Life Be As It Is
Sunday Blog 222 – 15th Feb 2026 I had let it go. The Sunday Blog. Because this weekend has been consumed with a creative writing assignment I thought was due a week later than it was. Because there’s the day job and travel and community volunteering and all the things. But here I am, the …
Octopus legs and personal growth
Sunday Blog 221 – 8th Feb 2026 It’s definitely too early to be making such heady claims, but I think my smart watch has created the personality revolution that I hoped I was paying for. Sure, I may have jabbed inexpertly at the preferences and set my goals a little low. It tells me every …
The Wonder of Weak Ties
Sunday Blog 220 – 1st February 2026 Last night I had the joy of attending a private musical evening with the sublime Alexia Parenzee singing. She will be touring more over 2026, so 10/10 I would recommend you sign up for updates on when and where and get along. Before the music began, another gem …
Shedding the Wood Snake Skin
Sunday Blog 219 – 25th January 2025 For those of you who have not yet jumped on the “New Year New You” bandwagon, one of my personal favourites, there’s still time. The Chinese New Year is not until 17 February. 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse, of which more later. Right now we’re …
Never a Cross Word
Sunday Blog 218 – 18th January 2026 Like many teachers, my parents married in January. On an excruciatingly hot January day they embarked on more than six decades of wedded bliss adventure. The in-joke each anniversary was like a nervous tick “X number of years and Never a Cross Word.” For their fiftieth wedding anniversary …
To Dawnie, With Love
Sunday Blog 217 – 11th January 2025 Can it be two years since you left us Dawn? When I checked the date of my last post about you it was indeed written two years ago. I’d attended your funeral that very week, and was trying to sum up how I felt about you as a …
Memory Jar
Sunday Blog 216 – 4th January 2026 Last week I tantalised with a picture of the contents from my 2025 memory jar; this week I thought I would write them out like pearls. Here goes. This is such an incomplete list of 2025 highlights. It cuts out before the August and September trip to Ireland, …
Days between the years
Sunday Blog 215 – 28th December 2025 I would be a liar if I said I didn’t like this time of year. The days between the years – between Christmas and New Year – are all about the goals. Reviewing the goals. Setting the goals. Talking about goals. And I’m all about the goals. Weekly …