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Tag: 50 Lists

  • List #39: Books I Have on Loan From the Library

    List #39: Books I Have on Loan From the Library

    The weather today has been awful, so I had to make a mad dash through the rain into and out of the library to drop off my read books and pick up my reserves.

  • List #35: Habits on my Tracking Spreadsheet

    List #35: Habits on my Tracking Spreadsheet

    After being away for so much of this year, I was determined to get back into some kind of routine once we were going to be mostly home. I set up a spreadsheet of the things I wanted to do regularly. I know there’s a lot of things on there, but it helps me see…

  • 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…

  • 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: