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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 |
There was another good Scout camp this weekend, with the usual collection of amusements, activities, achievements and so forth. One of the highlights, for me, was the half-day leisurely hike we did on Saturday to a gully in the bush a couple of kilometres from the campsite. I’ll confess there were a couple of geocaches in the […] After our return from Burg Hochosterwitz and having dinner in Velden on the edge of Wörthersee, we went back to our guesthouse and I decided to do an evening caching run. I knew there were a couple up on a nearby hill, and with it being light until late I figured I had a good couple […] The trickiest thing about travelling to a new place is figuring out the plumbing. You take one look at the taps in the shower/bath and think: “Stand back, what will happen if I turn/swivel/adjust this thing?”! Having sorted that out (and a nap after the flight!), I ventured out into the California sunshine. It really was a […] Last week was a l-o-o-o-ng week. There was all that marking (I just managed to get things finalised before my deadline … give or take a bit), there were meetings and classes and emails and other work-related things (the usual litany, but it just felt denser this week), there was Scouts* on Thursday night (with first aid […] I had managed to organise my life so that I could do a caching run on the Anzac Day holiday (actually, my life is nowhere near that organised at all, but I decided I was going anyway). Jaffnut is a fellow cacher whom I’ve met before briefly, and she had suggested that, since there are some […] While we were away over the geocaching weekend we got to see some interesting sights. A few km south of Wagga is “The Rock”, rising out of the landscape, with the train line running along the plain below. We passed its striking profile as we headed to and from Wagga. I must get back there some day […] Australia’s first ever geocaching Mega event (a gathering of more than 500 geocachers) was held over the Easter break. Thus it was that 700 or so cachers (folks who use million-dollar satellites to find plastic lunchboxes in the bush!) descended on the NSW country city of Wagga Wagga for four days of camping and treasure-hunting. My […] My friend and work colleague Robyn and I took two days of our annual leave to give ourselves a break before the onslaught really starts. (The fact that battle has already commenced with an intensity that has been daunting does not augur well for the official start of semester next week. Sigh.) Today was a lovely sunny […] You may recall that my silly To Do List had, as a low priority (but still very important) item, “reward self with a caching run”. Since I had completed all of the items on the silly list I contacted my friend May about heading out in the evening (I’m not sure how her To Do List […] One of the disconcerting things about being at a two-week Scout camp like Jamboree is that you lose track of which day it is. I had intended to do “12 of 12” while on Jamboree but then completely forgot about it. Fortunately, when I came to look back through the photos I took, I realised that […] |
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