Yesterday I started teaching one of the courses that is going to be responsible for quite a few trips northward in the second half of the year. Because it is winter, and the roads are often icy in the morning, I headed up the day before, leaving much later than I planned and so having to […]
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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
A wintry and fairly boring July work-day. I’d been away last week at a national conference, and on my way home I noticed that my suitcase was on its last legs (well, its last seams, actually). It has now been replaced. I am not, however, going to replace the disintegrating plastic bag that was in one of my […] Most of my midlands trips this year have been coinciding with sunset time (and this is likely to continue), and so the sunset shots are likely to become a theme if I maintain this self-imposed photography challenge that helps to keep the drive interesting. This time the pink is on the opposite side of the sky […] Okay, so I managed to find something to dress up in to wear to the annual big university dinner. (It/I actually looked much better in real life than in the photo, if you can trust my judgment about these things (which normally I wouldn’t)). I was looking for other attire, in fact, when I was browsing in […] Okay, I kind of feel that sunset silhouettes are a cop-out when it comes to taking photographs that you hope will look good, but I still like them. My tenth midlands work-related* journey was to Launceston to write problems for some forthcoming maths competitions (because that’s what rocks my boat), and on the homeward trip there […] It was a rather frantic day today and my intentions of leaving in sufficient time so that I would (a) not be travelling too late and (b) be able to catch the light for one of the photographs I had hoped to take, went out the window. However — speaking of “out the window” — before […] Yarn-bombers have attacked Campbell Town. The eclectic knitwear bedecks the statue of Eliza Forlong(e) who, in the early 1800s, was largely responsible for getting merino sheep established in Australia (hence the ram that accompanies her). Although it is, perhaps, ironic to have her clothed in knitted finery I am guessing that most of the yarn is […] After running a day of professional learning in Hobart I jumped in the car to head north, hoping that I’d have the light for at least half the journey (short daylight hours are the down-side of winter travel). With the sun having its winter northerly orientation it was lighting up the big historic 1860s mansion, Wybra Hall. […] I was running a full day of professional learning for teachers in Campbell Town today, but despite the relatively early start I failed to capture what was a lovely sunrise as I headed north (we were keen to be on our way and the angles weren’t “quite right”). On the way back the light wasn’t quite […] The second northward trip for the week had Burnie as its destination. The mid-afternoon sun put in an appearance, setting things aglow with a gentle autumnal luminosity. I have taken a shot here before (and given it the black and white treatment), but today there were new shoots of green illuminated after the recent rains had […] |
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