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14 July 202414 July 2024

Weekly Wrap 737: Admiring an enormous American car while my podcast guests fall ill

A big low-slung American car in silver grey.

My week of Monday 8 to Sunday 14 July 2024 was far less busy than I’d planned, because both of the podcast guests I’d booked in went down with throat infections. Still, I finally posted an episode recorded a couple weeks back, and started planning a Queensland expedition for October.

08 July 202424 July 2024

The 9pm Half-time Bingo Card Update 2024 with Snarky Platypus

Main image by Rudonni via Pixabay. Foreground bingo card originally by Milton Bradley Company, photo by Abby Hendrickson under under a CC-BY 2.0 Generic license. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.

Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created some bingo cards for 2024. Two sets of 25 things that might happen. Well, we’re half-way through the year, so let’s see how we went.

07 July 202410 July 2024

Weekly Wrap 736: Winning at crowdfunding, not winning at productivity

Against a grey cloudy sky are highlighted two massive construction cranes, their bright colours highlighted by the setting sun.

My week of Monday 1 to Sunday 7 July 2024 saw me pump out a solo podcast episode, but little else of note. I’ve said in the past that I seem to have a cycle of productive and non-productive weeks, and here we are. I did a lot of sleeping. I’ll tell you about that some day.

03 July 202403 July 2024

The 9pm Three Minor Irritations

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on ABC TV’s 7.30 on 2 July 2024. (Photo: ABC TV)

It’s more or less the start of the winter series as Stilgherrian vents about three things that got on his wick this week.

02 July 202405 July 2024

Weekly Wrap 735: The end of another financial year, with added recreation

Photograph of a colonial-era sandstone wall, being the foundations of the Paragon Hotel at Circular Quay. On the lower right of the image is the rusty remnant of a pipe and spout entering the room. The beauty is in the textures.

My week of Monday 24 to Sunday 30 June 2024 was a strange end to the financial year. I did get a little bit of client work done, but I was also very tired. Then I had a recreational weekend which extended into Monday — an unplanned long weekend! And on top of that I received a surprise gift.

23 June 202428 June 2024

Weekly Wrap 734: Winter cocktails provide a refreshing but potentially dangerous break

On an old wooden table sits an old-style lowball glass containing a pale yellow liquid, ice cubes, and slice of lemon. In the background, out of focus, the lush dark red furnishings of a high-Victorian drawing room.

My week of Monday 17 to Sunday 23 June 2024 was a curious one. An evening of delightful cocktails midweek may or may not have had something to do with a lingering sore throat. A client project received a bullet in the head, much to my relief. And I started mapping out my podcast’s winter series, for which a crowdfunder is running.