Tentatively Tasmanian

  • Someone is staring at you in Personal Growth

    Thanks to Bev at Sunday Stealing for these questions. (1) Like Plastic Mancunian I am an introvert who can very expertly be an extrovert when required. I can be funny or friendly, and learned during my solo travels in my early twenties that finding someone alone at a party when you feel alone and asking…

  • 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…

  • Barrel-bodied big nose

    I see him scuttling alongside the walking path. Is it a rat, pygmy kangaroo or a mutant mouse… It disappears too quickly before I can whip my phone out and take a photo. Each day I see ‘him.’ As a female myself, I don’t know why I automatically ascribe a male gender to any cute,…