Tentatively Tasmanian

  • Stupid sinks

    When we decided we were coming back home and that ‘home’ was going to be Hobart Tasmania, we looked up realestate.com.au and domain.com.au and had a map of the city close by. We also have a lifelong friend who grew up in Hobart, who gave us some very tactful warnings about where to not look…

  • Low maintenance hair

    Good old Bev at Sunday Stealing has given us bloggers a few more questions to ponder. Not sure if they will reveal anything interesting about me, but I’ll give ’em a burl… Do you trust people at restaurants who handle your food that they aren’t doing anything gross to it while you can’t see them?…

  • Pan pipes from hell

    Moving back home to Australia after twelve years away (gee I’ve been writing that a lot lately) means that we have completely fallen out of the system. Drivers’ licenses need to be reverted from French back to Aussie ones; the bank needs assurance that we are who we insist we are, and Medicare has no…

  • Un-fun essentials

    Moving anywhere, whether it be to a different house in the same city or across the world, always mean having to buy new stuff. It doesn’t matter if you’ve crammed most of your belongings into a trailer, a rental van or even a shipping container, some of your stuff either can’t fit, is not allowed…

  • The Nanna Cart’s Prayer

    Our Nanna Cart, Who art in the porch, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in Coles, As it is in Woolies. Give us this day our daily bread, especially if it is on special. And forgive us our trips in the car, As we forgive them that pull out in…

  • Sunday Stealing Questionnaire

    Bev at Sunday Stealing has been a blog legend for yonks now, and puts out a list of questions for bloggers suffering from writer’s block to consider, answer and share. I’ve snaffled her latest series of questions and will attempt to answer them below. If your house was on fire, which three items would you…

  • Beauty in the eye of

    I set up this blog to shake off the writing cobwebs, but also to see, share and genuinely appreciate the good things about moving to Tasmania. An honourable intention to be sure, but in my day-to-day wanderings, there are some alarming sights as well and that’s just my reflection in shop windows most of the…

  • Brrrrr

    It is the middle of winter here in Hobart and you’d think, as an Australian, I’d be aware of this. But after twelve years of living in Switzerland and nearby France, we left there in early June on a sunny 24C day and arrived in Hobart to 8C. No problem of course. We ensured that…

  • Motions through potions

    I’ve often wondered why, if athletes insist on trying new ways to make themselves stronger and faster and better by using banned drugs and other substances, we don’t just create an Alternative Olympics that allows any form of performance enhancing pills and anyone to enter? If people are competitive and crazy enough to risk their…

  • Mangled mammals

    As you can see by now, I adore alliteration. I know that all advice from successful writers is to Avoid Alliteration Always, but the way the words complement each other, typing it or saying it out loud is rather satisfying to me. Then again, maybe I need to get out more. Speaking of which, the…