Tentatively Tasmanian

  • Shopping shockers

    I’ve been job hunting lately, amongst the stuff like trying to get a Medicare card, a refund from an incredibly disinterested UN health insurer and keeping my daily steps up, and was thrown by a scenario presented to me in an interview. “You are about to visit a woman who gets out of bed for…

  • Still feeling it

    My husband Craig* loves Aussie Rules football. He tries to catch most games each weekend, but when his beloved Adelaide Crows are playing, that’s the signal for me to head out on a long walk because he is so ONE-EYED and has a jolly old time complaining loudly about umpire’s decisions and over-looked free kicks…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…