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09 June 202509 June 2025

Weekly Wrap 784: You can’t catch a tram to Indonesia

My week of Monday 2 to Sunday 8 June 2025 saw the start of The 9pm Edict podcast’s mid-2025 series, some productivity on client projects, and on Sunday a trip on the Parramatta light rail � although the photo is from a couple of weeks back.

07 June 202505 September 2025

The 9pm Australia’s Most Important Relationship is with Indonesia with Erin Cook

A white woman with her long brown hair tied back wears a yellow and black top, sunglasses, and a smile like the Mona Lisa. Behind her stretches out a view of a tropical landscape and, eventually, the ocean. It?s Erin Cook! — *Journalist Erin Cook towers above South-East Asia. (Photo: Supplied)*

Let’s kick off the Edict‘s mid-2025 series with a look at Australia’s relationship with Indonesia, because Jakarta was the first international city prime minister Anthony Albanese visited after his re-election. Our special guest is journalist Erin Cook, who specialises in South-East Asia.

01 June 202506 June 2025

Weekly Wrap 783: Appreciating the wonderful world of fungus

A close-up of a bracket fungus growing from a log. Its semi-circular shelves have wavy edges, and the surface of the cap shows concentric zones of different colours of brown and yellow and reddish tones, the outermost being the palest.

My week of Monday 26 May to Sunday 1 June 2025 was another productive one, despite some annoying. However I’ve gone back three years for this week’s photo. Watch out for more podcasts starting this week.

25 May 202525 May 2025

Weekly Wrap 782: Now is the winter of our fluffed-up pigeon

My week of Monday 19 to Sunday 25 May 2025 began with a solid burst of productivity, and then it rained a bunch, and then it all ended as I wished. I even scored a very special purchase, but I’m not telling you about that yet. The pigeon is from last week. And I know it isn’t actually winter yet.

19 May 202521 May 2025

Weekly Wrap 781: The Three Sisters who inspire productivity, or something

The view from the top of a very tall cliff down into a rugged valley, the floor of which is about 500 metres below. In the distance are sandstone cliffs a couple hundred metres high, and beyond that more mountains, all shaded blue. Yes, the Blue Mountains do look blue, thanks to chemicals exuded by the eucalypt trees, which cover the entire landscape apart from the vertical sandstone cliffs. Dominating the foreground on the left is a sandstone outcrop, thrusting upwards into three tall stacks. These are the Three Sisters.

During my week of Monday 12 to Sunday 18 May 2025 a client project reached a significant milestone, and I was very happy. I’m sure it has something to do with my visit to the Three Sisters the previous Saturday. I also started locking in the podcast production schedule.

11 May 202516 May 2025

Weekly Wrap 780: Big ship again, for my birthday and such

At the start of my week of Monday 5 to Sunday 11 May 2025 I decided that it would be relatively relaxed given that my birthday was in there somewhere, including a generously-gifted helicopter flight on Wednesday and a delightful lunch with friends on Saturday.