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05 April 202609 April 2026

Weekly Wrap 827: New podcasts, and exploring a new hood

View of an art deco theatre building in cream-painted plaster and two tones of blue trim, that are the top of the building being swirly and. The marquee reads "O R I O N" in a highly stylised art deco typeface.

Monday 30 March to Sunday 5 April 2026 was productive week. also relaxing, and indicative of how my move back to Sydney is evolving. I am happy.

01 April 202601 June 2026

The 9pm Artemis II and the Space Cockroaches with Dr Alice Gorman and Rami Mandow

Left: Dr Alice Gorman. (Photo: Simon Royal/ABC) Right: Rami Mandow. (Photo: Supplied; Post-processing: Stilgherrian). Not the best ALT text, I know, but yeah a white women and a man "of Middle-Eastern appearance". — *Left: Dr Alice Gorman. (Photo: Simon Royal/ABC) Right: Rami Mandow. (Photo: Supplied; Post-processing: Stilgherrian)*

As I post this, we’re supposedly just hours away from the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon. So what better time to chat with space archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman aka Dr Space Junk and astrophysicist Rami Mandow?

29 March 202602 April 2026

Weekly Wrap 826: Settling into scenic Campsie

Looking up into a bright blue sky with scattered traces of cloud. A multi-storey brick apartment building looms, its side devoid of windows but decorated with square outlines of contrasting brick colours where one might expect windows to be. Tan on brown, brown on tan. At the top is a plain white box, presumably the top of the elevator shaft.

Monday 23 to Sunday 29 March 2026 was mostly about unpacking more things and getting used to the apartment and living back in Sydney, though I did manage to unclog the podcast post-production queue.

29 March 202629 March 2026

The 9pm Peak Sheep with David F Porteous

A square-faced Scottish man in a shirt, tie, and dark suit looks to the right and ponders the fate of the world as he stands in a black void. — David F Porteous is counting his sheep while he can. (Photo: Supplied )

It may well be nearly the end of March, and indeed it is, but this is still the summer series. Our special guest today is Scottish author and social researcher David F Porteous, and as always we had a wonderful conversation.

23 March 202607 May 2026

Weekly Wrap 825: Finally decamped to Campsie, hurrah!

A view out across apartment rooftops to a grey sky. On the left, one brick apartment building is taller with the antennas of a mobile phone cell on its roof. At the bottom there are treetops. But all is blurred slightly because the camera has focused on the balcony netting in the foreground.

I now live in Campsie! That’s in Sydney’s inner south-west, and the photo above was the view from the balcony on my first morning here, which was Wednesday. So my week of Monday 16 to Sunday 22 March 2026 was mostly occupied with moving and unpacking — and there’s still quite a bit to go.

15 March 202616 March 2026

Weekly Wrap 824: Podcast recordings, and observing an ibis

An Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) stands in bright sunlight on an asphalt road surface. It has some lengths of dried grass in its beak, and itâ€™s hunched over ready to launch itself into a steep climb up to the palm tree where itâ€™s building its nest. Like most ibises in suburban Sydney, itâ€™s a bit grubby.

My week of Monday 9 to Sunday 15 March 2026 saw both an ibis and me start building a new home. Well, mine is already built, so it’s mostly about preparing to move in. The ibis seems to have quite a bit of work to do.