burwood – Stilgherrian

26 July 202626 July 2026

Weekly Wrap 843: Happy productivity, unhappy graffiti

On a cream-coloured wall is scrawled in black the graffiti "Instagram the ghost AI empire", and the same again in red. On the left, a young man with a red backpack is disappearing out of frame.

Monday 20 to Sunday 26 July 2026 was another productive week, which pleases me. I don’t have that much else to day, apart from that I’m happy. So here’s a photo of some graffiti over in Burwood.

19 April 202625 April 2026

Weekly Wrap 829: Sleepy, but with spectacular sunsets

Looking down a narrow street between a towering railway embankment on the left and a pub on the right. It’s just after sunset, and the sky is a deep orange thanks to hazard reduction burns out west. The pub bears an illuminated sign, “Avondale”, and there’s naked bulbs under the small verandah.

This week of Monday 13 to Sunday 19 April 2026 brought some deep orange sunsets thanks to some large-scale hazard reduction burns to the west of Sydney. I tried to get back into a proper work routine, but in the first half of the week I seemed to be fighting a lurgi and was very, very tired.

19 May 202426 May 2024

Weekly Wrap 729: Pain pounds productivity, but at least the sun started shining

Can I just say that stabbing back pain is far from being one of my favourite things? My week of Monday 12 to Sunday 19 May 2024 was punctuated by pain, so my productivity was way, way down. Next week, though. Next week…

23 October 202223 October 2022

Weekly Wrap 647: So much good food while the UK disintegrated before our eyes

Monday 17 to Sunday 23 October 2022 was an astounding week in British politics, so I made a podcast. I also had quite a few drinks, but we won’t talk about that. I will mention that there was a lot of rain, however. Thanks, La NiÃ±a.

17 November 201918 November 2019

Weekly Wrap 494: Avoiding fires, finding faults, reading court decisions

My week of Monday 11 to Sunday 17 November was spent in Sydney, apart from just one night. Friends persuaded me to avoid the Blue Mountains on Tuesday’s “catastrophic” fire danger day — though things turned out fine up there — and I stayed down for the rest of the week for a few Health Patrol duties.

21 July 201922 July 2019

Weekly Wrap 477: Another week on Health Patrol, with cybers and nuclear weapons

My week of Monday 15 to Sunday 21 July 2019 was another one largely devoted to supporting my friend with an acute health problem, although I did get a little interesting work done along the way this time.