Weekly Wrap – Stilgherrian

15 June 202515 June 2025

Weekly Wrap 785: Thinking of more pleasant times is the Quay to happiness, right?

Sydney’s Circular Quay is seen square-on from Sydney Harbour. Modern skyscrapers dominate the image, with the ferry wharves along the bottom. Just above the latter runs the City Loop railway through Circular Quay station, and above that an expressway. The sky is showing a faint glow as the late afternoon sun illuminates the patchy clouds.

Diarrhoea plagued my week of Monday 9 to Sunday 15 June 2025 but it was still productive, with another fun podcast and a lot of successful client work. But there was no time for photos, so here’s a shot of Circular Quay from a couple weeks ago.

09 June 202509 June 2025

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

It’s a bright sunny day and on a clean section of street there’s a pair of light rail tracks. Coming in from the left a bright red and white modern-looking tram occupies most of the view, while behind it there’s a high-rise apartment building.

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.

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

A random rock dove (Columba livia), dark grey with light grey mottling on its wings, is fluffed up against the cold. It stands on a stainless steel rubbish bin in a park. In the background autumn leaves from London plane trees (Platanus × hispanica) are scattered on the lawn.

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

A bright sunny day on Sydney Harbour, and we’re maybe 1,000 feet in the air. We’re looking down on a warship, which we’re seeing from slightly behind its port beam. It’s a modern landing [ship] helicopter dock (LHD), HMAS Adelaide, with its flight deck laid out before us. Beyond it is a wharf, another dock, and to the right of that a dry dock containing a smaller ship. In the background, the various building of Fleet Base East. On the far upper left is the Hobart-class air warfare destroyer HMAS Brisbane (DDG 41).

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.