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Noosa Running
Noosa National Park Loop This is my favourite Noosa run with spectacular scenery and varied terrain. From where we normally stay on the river it’s 14 km in total but from Noosa Beach it’s 9 km. From Hastings St., the trail runs along the coast with a mixture of asphalt and boardwalk and a couple fo decent hills to the National Park. Once there, I always run the loop anti-clockwise, up the Tanglewood Track and then around the coastal trail. The Tanglewood Track is a steep, fairly rough uphill with rocks and tree roots through the rainforest. Since I have been known to trip over on the Elwood Boardwalk I…
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List #5: Things I Have No Intention of Ever Doing
Another list for my 50 lists project. These are all the things I have no intention of ever doing. You may have guessed from this list that I’m not a thrill-seeker, I hate heights and I get all kinds of travel sick. Are you a thrill seeker? What kinds of things do you never want to do?
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Good Things Friday
Some good things from my week … Making Jam We turned the silvan berries we picked last Friday into jam. The kitchen smelt so good when the jam was cooking. We’ve now restocked our pantry with jam to last us for the year. A Beach Day The weather has not been great this summer. Not very warm and very rainy. Many parts of the state are currently on flood alert, or already flooded, but last Saturday the sun came out and it was 30C. We went to the back beach at Point Lonsdale and it was glorious. That was my first swim in the ocean this season. Happily, it looks…
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December 2023 Books
After finishing no books in November, I finished five in December. Several were shorter books so that lifted my total. The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger I didn’t like this book. Nothing happened, Holden was annoying, and because of this and the fact that the whole book was written in Holden’s “voice” there was no let-up. But, I can see why this is put on school reading lists. It grapples with some important themes and often left me thinking about it after I had put it down. I bought a secondhand copy of this in New York as my souvenir of the city and the city did…
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Good Things Sunday
I usually post my good things on Friday but I had vertigo/migraine on Friday and screens usually make it worse so I followed Friday with a screen-free, no internet day on Saturday. Today I’m feeling a lot better and even managed my long run which was good as I was feeling unwell last weekend and didn’t run at all. The week has been marred by frequent headaches. I’m hoping it’s hormonal and they settle down soon. Despite this, I still have a selection of good things to share. Hanging with the Fam I’ve had lots of time with my extended family over the last few weeks and it has been…
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2023 Intentions – End of Year Review
At the start of the year, I set a series of intentions in different areas of my life. It’s time to look back and see how I did. Daily Routines: I planned to try out a new habit each month and see what stuck in an attempt to level up my daily routines. This did not go well and I ditched this goal in the middle of the year. Around September I fell into a lovely, morning routine that happened most weekday mornings without meaning to. Overall though, this was a fail. I think ultimately this was a goal that deep down I just wasn’t that committed to. I know a…
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Random Things: Marathon Sign-Up, Internet Free Day #2, New Year Peeve, Perspective
I hoped that 2024 would be the year I finally ticked off a full marathon but I planned to sit on the fence to see if I could get some consistent training going in the first part of the year. Entries for the Melbourne Marathon to be held in October sold out in the first two days after opening. That left the Gold Coast Marathon in July as my next best opportunity. I still hoped to be able to wait until late February to make the call but on the 21st of December Hubby forwarded the information that the marathon was 50% sold three weeks after registrations opened. I decided…
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List #4: 100 Things that Made My Year – 2023
Stealing this idea from Austin Kleon. You can see 2022’s post here.
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Reading, Watching, Listening – December 2023
It’s been a while since I did one of these posts, but maybe you have a bit of time to surf the net in this week? Reading First up some posts to help you reflect on the year that was, or the year to come. End of Year Reflection Questions by Tsh Oxenreider on the commonplace. Austin Kleon has a selection of his own and others’ Prompts for the New Year. This year I managed for the second time to grow seeds in punnets, but it’s never very successful. Maybe I should follow Casey’s lead—“I’m breaking up with punnets”. This season I got tomatoes, capsicums and eggplants started indoors, although…
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Good Things Friday
POINT LONSDALE It feels like ages since we were last in Point Lonsdale. Looking back through my photos, the last time was the Labour Day weekend in March. The whole family has been down and it has been great to catch up. As usual, the holidays involve lots of cooking, afternoon naps, reading books, going for seaside runs and sitting around either inside or outside and chatting. CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS WITH A 3-YEAR-OLD IN THE MIX Four households under one roof make a lot of presents. My sister has a three-year-old so we were back to having the excitement of a young child around. She first woke at 4 am, but…