Dramatis persona*

helenhead 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.
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Midlands 2015-#2N

Northward ho, again. After nearly a year free of them, there are now several sections of the Midlands Highway affected by roadworks. It’s going to be a long year.

In fact, I’d taken a detour to avoid the worst of the roadworks, but because I’d overslept slightly and I wasn’t sure how long the alternative route would […]

Hartz a-pumping

Today was one of those glorious days where the sun shines, the view is spectacular, the company is good, you don’t die on the uphill bits, and enough of your photos turn out.

I took two of my older nieces to Hartz Peak today, where the altitude and breeze were enough to attenuate the very warm summer […]

Midlands 2015-#1S

And so it begins again: today was the year’s first work trip to Launceston.

There were some lovely possibilities for photos on my northward journey, but — due to the fact that my head messed with my head — I thought I was running late and so I didn’t stop. On the return journey the late afternoon […]

Unseasonable summer camp

Tasmania’s weather is notoriously variable, but having a full week of drizzle, wind, and coolth in the middle of summer is definitely unseasonable. And to have such a week coinciding with our annual Scout troop summer camp had the potential to be disappointing but we managed to have a good time despite it.

It was cool all […]