This week’s two night trip to Launceston is centred around the 12th, and so, since I took a few photos on my northbound journey, I’ll post those first, then bring you 12 of 12, and finally, if there’s something that catches my eye on my return journey (and I do have some possibilities in mind, weather […]
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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 |
This trip was an overnight trip to Campbell Town, for a work meeting on one day and then a day of professional learning the next. On the way up I stopped where the highway bypasses Ross. Some 200m north of the highway there is a long ruined building that has lost most of its roof. I’m […] We interrupt the midlands to bring you a mountain. Today was one of those bright but slightly faded spring mornings, and a cloud drift was draped across the summit. The full “Moods of the Mountain collection” […] You’re going to have a whole sequence of Midlands photos in the next couple of weeks as I have a few trips scheduled. For this trip, I headed up to Launceston yesterday and I stopped to get a shot of the industrial magnificence that is the zinc works, behind the Bowen Bridge. Today, my return journey […] There’s a choral piece that we’ve been singing with Loose Canon entitled “My Nurse and I”, which was written by Matthew Orlovich in 2010 as a setting of a poem written by Nicolette Stasko. It references the Australian landscape and its fauna, and opens with the words I am twined in the great trees There were some nice scenes on my latest Launceston trip, especially on my homeward journey, but I failed to take photographic advantage of them. Instead you get a photographic record of my disproportionate excitement that the uni car remembered me from a previous trip, and hooked up to the music on my iPhone automatically when I […] It took all of my alarms (4 different devices), but I managed to fight jet-lag and weariness to get up and get to work before anyone else had turned on the lights in the building. The day began by dealing with a few work emails, one of which wanted to know how to properly reference a booklet […] There are a few little extra bemusements to share from my trip. I can’t remember exactly what prompted the following tradition, but not long after I became a mathematical traveller* I started to bring back flags for the older of my younger brothers, who is now somewhat of a vexillophile, with in excess of 25 flags (I […] As mentioned previously, my reason for being in Szeged was to attend a conference: the annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (otherwise known as “PME”). We hosted this event last year in Hobart; this year I could relax (give or take a bit) and enjoy the organisational efforts of others. The […] I have been in Szeged, Hungary attending a conference for the past week. The conference has involved long days (and I’ve been trying to keep up with work from home as well), but I have had the occasional chance to escape and do some sightseeing. I have visited Hungary once before, 25 years ago, spending time […] |
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