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Category: Lists

  • List #34:Good Things Friday September 2025

    List #34:Good Things Friday September 2025

    Can you believe that it will be October next week? The months are flying by and are filled with good things. What are your recent good things? Do you have a good way to get what you need when dealing with Chatbots?

  • List #33: Places I Need to Declutter and Organise

    List #33: Places I Need to Declutter and Organise

    With all our travel I’ve felt like I haven’t been home long enough to get into a good routine and find some time to tackle the parts of the house that are devolving slowly into chaos. Here’s what needs tackling: I did manage to get the freezer sorted out before we went up to Sydney…

  • List #32: Five-year Travel Wish List

    List #32: Five-year Travel Wish List

    I had on my 101 Things list to rough out a five-year travel wish list. G and I did it last month and here it is: You can see we did some mind changing and moving things around while we were working on this. A lot of our travel will be focused on G’s World…

  • List #31: Good Things Friday August 2025

    List #31: Good Things Friday August 2025

    So many good things this month: Do you have a go to cafe order? What’s been good in your life lately?

  • List #30: Another Peevish List

    List #30: Another Peevish List

    As the title says, this is not my first list of pet peeves, see here, and more peeves here and here. Some more things I STRONGLY dislike … Feel free to weigh in with your own peeves in the comments.

  • List #29: some things I’ve Been Reading

    List #29: some things I’ve Been Reading

    I do try to round up the books I finish reading each month, but there are some books that I read over months/years. Some are the type of books that need to be read one page at a time, poetry springs to mind. Others are dense with short chapters that I pick up for a…

  • 101 Things in 1001 Days: 700-day Checkin

    101 Things in 1001 Days: 700-day Checkin

    I started my 101 Things list on September 11th 2023. I’m checking my progress every 100 days. At the end of the first 600 days, I calculated that I was 38.55% complete. For a lot of this 100 days we weren’t at home which meant I couldn’t progress on a number of the ones that are home/local to home…

  • List #28: What We Did This Week on the NSW Central Coast

    List #28: What We Did This Week on the NSW Central Coast

    This week we had a little bit of time between leaving Noosa and meeting our friends in Sydney for the City to Surf weekend. Sidenote: there are 90,000 entrants in the race on Sunday so it should be pretty epic with plenty to distract me from my very slow running. On Monday we drove from…

  • List #27: Good Things Friday July 2025

    List #27: Good Things Friday July 2025

    I didn’t twig that last Friday (the 25th) was the last Friday in July so I missed posting this. Oh well. I’m going ahead with it today. What have been your recent highlights?

  • List #26: Good Things Friday June 2025

    List #26: Good Things Friday June 2025

    And some bonus good things: