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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 |
So, (a) How does Alec know? Is there some continually updated database of Australian laundrette sizes? and (b) Is this a marketing ploy? Do people really come from miles around — from suburbs with perfectly good small laundrettes — in order to wash at the largest […] After the decluttering comes the photographs, as the real estate agent gets all the advertising stuff ready for my place to go on the market. He sent a professional photographer around, and the results were quite striking. I had taken a few quick shots as I decluttered, for my own personal records, and I knew that […] As mentioned in August’s 12 of 12, I have taken up Futsal, a 6-a-side version of soccer that we play on an outdoor field (some versions are indoors). I played soccer many many moons ago (when I was in Grade 5 and 6) and it remains one of my favourite sports. Some folk in one of […] This month’s 12 of 12 fell on “Ride to Work” day, and so there are a few photos of my cycling journey, together with a couple of shots of some of my teaching activities. The big thing that is happening at the moment, however, is that I am in the throes of getting my real-estate portfolio organised […] My impending move back to Tasmania provides a wonderful opportunity to sort through old bits and pieces, and throw out some (lots?) of things. The real estate agent calls this “decluttering”. I hate “decluttering”. Actually, it is more of a love-hate relationship. I love devising “systems” for filing things and having my memorabilia nicely organised, but, inevitably, I forget […] |
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