https://zigzaggery.space/tags/weeknotes/ Recent content in Weeknotes on Zigzaggery Hugo en-us Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/apr/weeknotes-12/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/apr/weeknotes-12/ Some good golf, then good practice and then poor golf… …!?. How good is golf?! Cover image: A green I failed to read on Wednesday, but did a little better on Friday. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/apr/weeknotes-05/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/apr/weeknotes-05/ Started slow, but ended stronger… …getting stuff done (small steps) and cooking good food. Cover image: Golf at HillView (Classic and Lakeside) on holiday Monday (ie the day after this weeknote ends) where I played amazing for 9 and then ok for 9 (but the second 9 was new to me), more on that next week. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/mar/weeknotes-29/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/mar/weeknotes-29/ Golf and then a lot of rain… …wet and windy. Cover image: My purple Oxalis triangularis finally making an effort to have more than one leaf. Physio weights was good, but no PRs this time. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/mar/weeknotes-22/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/mar/weeknotes-22/ Cars, cars, cars and more cars… …but made a decision I’m happy with. Now it’s all about caravans (which is far worse). Cover image of “Snowball” (not actually, because it’s not in this state yet, but the equivalent), a white Hyundai Inster EV. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/mar/weeknotes-15/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/mar/weeknotes-15/ Filling my days with new things courtesy of binaural beats meditation… …which has just about kept me going in spite of continuing car issues, hayfever and difficult rounds of golf. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/mar/weeknotes-08/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/mar/weeknotes-08/ It’s happened before. The major service resulted in a car with a lovely smooth running engine… …but then we took it for a longer spin and it became clear something else wasn’t right! https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/mar/weeknotes-01/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/mar/weeknotes-01/ Lots of festival socialising this week, car service and almost a whole week off golf… …so got quite a bit of plant maintenance done. Serviced the car somewhere local and took the cover image on the walk back home. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/feb/weeknotes-22/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/feb/weeknotes-22/ Still avoiding things I don’t want to do (eg tidying my room and cupboard)… …but the apathies lifted a bit this week as I watered the plants, filled the bird baths and even managed to wing-SUP again (although I was trounced by the swell). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/feb/weeknotes-15/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/feb/weeknotes-15/ February is moving quickly, but I’m not really getting much done… …which isn’t too much of a problem, but means I’m surrounded by plants that need tending and rooms that need tidying. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/feb/weeknotes-08/ Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/feb/weeknotes-08/ A week of up and then back down… …mentally speaking at least. Cover image: Full moon and clouds. Back to physio - still pretty strong, probably lost a tiny bit during the three weeks off, but home weights are going well. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/feb/weeknotes-01/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/feb/weeknotes-01/ A week of down and then back up mentally… …lots of thinking, some doing. Cover image: Wing-foilers at the river (not me… yet). Kept up with home strength plan in absence of physio; more weight, added balance and core exercises. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/jan/weeknotes-25/ Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/jan/weeknotes-25/ The week started well, but I’ve been feeling tired a lot of the time… …(my notes contain the word “dead” more than once). Meh! Cover image: Wind at Safety Bay for Wing-SUP session. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/jan/weeknotes-18/ Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/jan/weeknotes-18/ Golf and not much else this week… …felt bad about not doing other things (ie wing-SUPing) some days, but realise that’s a stupid reaction today. I spent a lot of time on something I enjoy, finding it both challenging and satisfying. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/jan/weeknotes-11/ Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/jan/weeknotes-11/ A couple of away games of golf… …a nice change, but quite challenging and at times frustrating. Cover image: A view down the fairway to one of the very pretty holes at Lake Karrinyup. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/jan/weeknotes-04/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2026/jan/weeknotes-04/ Actually went to a NYE party… …and found it surprisingly easy to make it to midnight! It’s been a while. Cover image: The path to the beach where I’m learning to wing on the SUP. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/dec/weeknotes-28/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/dec/weeknotes-28/ Flexi-christmas for the win… …because no-one wants to cook on the second of two 40 degree days. Cover image: Frangipani season! The huge plant which provided cuttings… Planted the frangipani cuttings into pots and garden, lost a few in the heat. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/dec/weeknotes-21/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/dec/weeknotes-21/ A slightly disgruntling week… …where I did manage to hold together a few things (but not golf on Friday)! Cover image: not good quality, but didn’t want to spook the very hot and thirsty kookaburra making use of the garden amenities. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/dec/weeknotes-14/ Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/dec/weeknotes-14/ Some more bits and pieces of life, which is pretty slow atm… …in part because it suddenly got hot. Luckily golf was on cooler days, but that meant it clashed with times I might have attempted to wing-SUP. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/dec/weeknotes-07/ Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/dec/weeknotes-07/ First of the newstyle weeknotes… …inspired by my love of reading weeknotes on The weblog of Alice Bartlett, which make me feel good about sharing bits and pieces of life without worrying that I need to entertain a reader other than me. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/dec/mind-the-gap/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/dec/mind-the-gap/ A lot of good things happened in September, October and November… …but I didn’t get around to writing any weeknotes. In part that was because I was away quite a bit without my laptop. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/aug/weeknotes-31/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/aug/weeknotes-31/ Adventure in New Zealand - week three… …Te Anau, Otago and Banks Peninsulas. The cover image is a view from the Banks Peninsula, which is where our trip finished (with an impromptu extra day in Auckland reported as part of next week’s return to Perth weeknote). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/aug/weeknotes-24/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/aug/weeknotes-24/ Adventure in New Zealand - week two… …Wanaka, Queenstown and skiing. The cover image is a view of lake Wanaka on one of the cloudier days. These travel notes continue for my benefit - a reminder of how anxiety can derail almost everything and then be gone once the feared action is past! https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/aug/weeknotes-17/ Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/aug/weeknotes-17/ Adventure in New Zealand - week one… …from Auckland to Wanaka. The cover image is Auckland, taken from the bay walk we did on Monday. My travel notes on the blog are mostly for myself (as usual). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/aug/weeknotes-10/ Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/aug/weeknotes-10/ Taking a break from weeknotes for a few weeks (but I will catch up)… …when I get back from travelling. Already quite busy this week, so the photo above is actually from last week’s river walk! https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/aug/weeknotes-03/ Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/aug/weeknotes-03/ Went for a less travelled river walk… …to see the end of the under-the-bridge art “gallery” (pictured above). Thought I wasn’t going to get there for a bit, since there were lots of signs telling me the path was closed around Heathcote and past the yacht club, but it was all fine. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jul/weeknotes-27/ Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jul/weeknotes-27/ Well, that seemed like a lot of rain (image above shows a still from the radar)… …which I know we need, but did we need it all at once? The rain came in abundance a couple of times this week, with some very sunny weather in between. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jul/weeknotes-20/ Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jul/weeknotes-20/ Lots of golf and a new puzzle (pictured above)… …which I finished too quickly because I just couldn’t stop! Reading: This week I read the new Rivers of London book, Stone and Sky, by Ben Aaronovitch. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jul/weeknotes-13/ Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jul/weeknotes-13/ Began with rain, ended with rain, but sunny too… …which meant some lovely skies at times (pictured for this post). Reading: This week I re-read the first Murderbot story, All Systems Red, because I’m watching the television version and wanted to get a feel for how it’d been adapted, given that so much is explained in Murderbot’s thoughts or “on feeds”. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jul/weeknotes-06/ Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jul/weeknotes-06/ Pretty good weather this week meant more outside activities… …including a neighbourhood walk (with the pictured Bougainvillea in probably my favourite colour) being one of the sights. I also visited Booyeembara Park for the first time in years (having walked there regularly when our dog was getting old and needed short, but stimulating, walks). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jun/weeknotes-29/ Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jun/weeknotes-29/ Made the most of the sun this week, which meant… …lots of walks (view from Wireless Hill above), photographs of flowers (below), seedpods and cockatoos (on my Instagram here and here), as well as a lot of golf (practice and play). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jun/weeknotes-22/ Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jun/weeknotes-22/ A quiet week watching the rain (and occasionally getting wet)… …so I got out one of my new jigsaw puzzles (partially pictured this week). Reading: I forgot to read more of The AI Con and should get back to it since it’s one of the books I’ve started recommending to other people. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jun/weeknotes-15/ Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jun/weeknotes-15/ Doing some unusual writing and the usual activities… …which means I responded to the EPA against Woodside’s plans to drill under Scott Reef and played a lot of golf. The image of a turtle this week was stolen from Save Scott Reef, but I hope that whoever took it won’t mind. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jun/weeknotes-08/ Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jun/weeknotes-08/ Tired and sad, not sure why… …so goodbye week, hoping I feel better in the next few days. Hid from the rain. Played some trash golf (practice and competition). Saw pretty flowers (pictured) when I went for a walk. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jun/weeknotes-01/ Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jun/weeknotes-01/ OMG the raven family is on the wing and ready to rumble… …they’re honing their flying skills, learning to “sing”, playing on the roof (in their hobnailed boots) and, presumably, stealing food from the chickens next door, etc). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/may/weeknotes-25/ Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/may/weeknotes-25/ We have had a few red-tailed black cockatoo visits for dinner now… …and I’m excited to see them each time, although they make a hell of a mess under the tree with lots of small branches falling as they eat. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/may/weeknotes-18/ Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/may/weeknotes-18/ Spent some money this week buying a graphic novel that was a PhD thesis and a great piece of art (both pictured in the image for this week)… …the first because Unflattening by Nick Sousanis sounds like a fascinating exploration of how words and images might be “inextricably linked” as “equal partners in meaning-making”, the second because it was the first piece of landscape art I’ve seen in ages that really called to me. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/may/weeknotes-11/ Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/may/weeknotes-11/ This week it’s become clear I don’t take enough photographs… …although that is, in part, because I’ve been trying to pay more attention to what I’m seeing in the moment, rather than recording what I’m seeing. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/may/weeknotes-04/ Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/may/weeknotes-04/ A week dominated by golf, as usual, with a bit of gardening and vote casting… …in the Australian federal election. Thank goodness we managed not to vote in Trump-lite and still hopeful my division might be led by an independent (although the race is very tight and won’t be decided until all the preferences are in). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/apr/weeknotes-27/ Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/apr/weeknotes-27/ Just another week, with a lot of considering, not that much doing, but some good talking time… …with D and G. Reading: Still re-reading The Traveler’s Gate Trilogy by Will Wight, which I am enjoying a lot. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/apr/weeknotes-20/ Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/apr/weeknotes-20/ Filling in medical forms drains my energy as does playing trash golf, but my attempts to do things (whatever they might be) continue… …while I’ve not implemented the block method from How to Do Things I have identified a few things I’d like to do in the next few months. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/apr/weeknotes-13/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/apr/weeknotes-13/ I’m not sure what I’ve been doing with my time, other than trying to improve my golf, and I’m pretty sure I could be getting a little more done now I’ve been off work for a while… https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/apr/weeknotes-06/ Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/apr/weeknotes-06/ A better week than last week, with a lot of smoke towards the end, but also lower temperatures… …which meant I did get a few more things done this week (as well as playing quite a bit of golf at the course, pictured in the evening light for this week’s cover image). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/mar/weeknotes-30/ Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/mar/weeknotes-30/ I admit it. I didn’t want to write these weeknotes… …but keeping them going still seems useful. This week has been hot, with easterly winds of the type that have the potential to dry my eyes out so they burn. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/mar/weeknotes-23/ Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/mar/weeknotes-23/ Took no proper photos this week, so here’s a really bad one of the river and ocean view through the gap between houses… …for a week where I caught up with people I’d not seen for months and years respectively, while not looking forward to the return of summer temperatures in a few days time. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/mar/weeknotes-16/ Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/mar/weeknotes-16/ This crow has probably seen a lot of me this week (image of the weeknote)… …as it flew around the golf course. I’m so tired that as I’m writing this I really can’t think what to say (see Golf below). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/mar/weeknotes-09/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/mar/weeknotes-09/ A long weekend here that doesn’t feel that way, with lots of golf, some music and pretty skies… …that are pictured above and below. Still getting incandescently irritated with myself when I do something wrong, forget something and/or do nothing (ie procrastinate a day away). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/mar/weeknotes-02/ Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/mar/weeknotes-02/ Good things, but personal frustration too… …as I managed to do some of the things, but not all of the things (and didn’t seem to be able to let go of irritation with myself as the week moved by). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/feb/weeknotes-23/ Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/feb/weeknotes-23/ Art, art and there should have been more art (but the opening times didn’t work for me), lunch, beach and golf… …so I did well this week, but am annoyed I missed David Spencer’s Pentimento in Fremantle. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/feb/weeknotes-16/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/feb/weeknotes-16/ Not a fantastic week, with the car breaking down (and me with it, to some extent)… …but I’m feeling much better and the car is fixed, so things are looking up again. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/feb/weeknotes-09/ Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/feb/weeknotes-09/ Hot and humid days have meant I was lacking in energy, but I did flop about in the ocean with a windsurfer two more times. I met this shield bug in the park where I recovered the second time… https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/feb/weeknotes-02/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/feb/weeknotes-02/ Back down to the windsurfing beach this week and I had a go this time… …but it didn’t go great! On a positive note, all my new kit fitted well, I was very comfortable and my leg brace felt fine (so fine that really I didn’t notice it at all unless I was kneeling on the board trying to uphaul). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jan/weeknotes-26/ Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jan/weeknotes-26/ Don’t get too excited. I don’t kitesurf (since a scary experience just after I finished lessons) and I haven’t yet managed to get back on the windsurfer. I did make it to the beach… https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jan/weeknotes-19/ Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jan/weeknotes-19/ For some reason this was a week dominated by irritability… …and I’m not absolutely sure why. It might have something to do with wanting to feel I’m improving my golf game (but still only managing to play well for half any given round). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jan/weeknotes-12/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jan/weeknotes-12/ A week in which it turned out that watching golf (ie walking the course with the players) is just as tiring physically as playing golf… This week there was a professional competition at my club, so I got the chance to play another great local course for free (because we get offered alternative tee times elsewhere when we can’t access our own course). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jan/weeknotes-05/ Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jan/weeknotes-05/ The first of the new look weeknotes as we move into the new year… Three walks this week, plus “a good walk spoiled” (ie a game of golf, as in the quotation commonly misattributed to Mark Twain). https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jan/re-visioning-weeknotes/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2025/jan/re-visioning-weeknotes/ Entering the new year with a new plan for weeknotes… Although I enjoyed writing my first few weeknote instalments last year, they got harder (or less pleasurable?) to write each week. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/dec/weeknotes-29/ Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/dec/weeknotes-29/ Christmas is normally only celebrated in our house with food and drink, but this year we got the new lights out and decorated the owl with my Christmas golf outfit hat… https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/dec/weeknotes-22/ Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/dec/weeknotes-22/ The frangipanis are flowering and it’s getting hotter more regularly now, so planning what to do and when is getting more important… Those plans for blogposts other than weeknotes are still just plans, so the frangipani flowers are the image of the week rather than gracing a post about the garden. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/dec/weeknotes-15/ Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/dec/weeknotes-15/ A week where I got some worthwhile things done, but also went onto campus and back to (unpaid) thinking and writing work too soon… Although I’m planning a post (or series of posts) about plants and the garden, I did promise pictures of the Echinopsis oxygona cactus flowers. https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/dec/weeknotes-08/ Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/dec/weeknotes-08/ Still trying to settle into my new life. I did manage to get a few things done while also trying to chill out (and avoid feeling like I have to do all the things all at once)… https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/dec/weeknotes-01/ Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/dec/weeknotes-01/ My second weeknotes post - the first week of not working (not being on holiday, just not working) but with some work (which would not surprise anyone that knows me)… https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/nov/weeknotes-24/ Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://zigzaggery.space/post/2024/nov/weeknotes-24/ My first ever weeknotes post following a momentous week - finishing up my work as a Senior Lecturer… I took this image of an iron steer decorating a gate on the way back from a long-planned beach walk.