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Posted on 23 March 202524 March 2025

Weekly Wrap 773: Remembering a little train in the sunshine

On a bright sunny day a pair of diesel railcars sit at a station platform in the open air. They’re silver, with their flat noses painted bright yellow, and just behind that a red stripe and a a small flash of blue.

My week of Monday 17 to Sunday 23 March 2025 wasn’t hugely productive but I’ve started planning more things. I also thought back to 2018, for some reason. Have a train.

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Posted on 24 November 202424 November 2024

Weekly Wrap 756: Productivity with memories of bushfires

Looking from the concourse end of Sydney Central terminal down the tracks between two platforms. Sitting at the right-hand platform is a V-Set train, with its fluted stainless steel body and bright yellow and red nose. On the centre stabling track is another. There’s nothing at the left-hand platform. Overhead, it’s a sunny sky smudged with the brown of bushfire smoke.

My week of Monday 18 to Sunday 24 November 2024 began with a burst of productivity, including a bunch of podcast work, but the weekend brought fatigue. It also brought some random reflection on the bushfires of five years ago. Time no longer has any meaning.

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Posted on 11 April 202029 October 2020

The 9pm His Plague Diary 5

Looking north along the almost deserted Cumberland Highway (Hart Drive) from the railway overpass at Wentworthville in Sydney’s west on Good Friday 2020.

It’s Day 25 of Stilgherrian’s coronavirus isolation. A trip down to Sydney on Friday provided some relief, but also a reminder of how bleak everything is becoming.

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Posted on 29 December 201914 March 2021

Weekly Wrap 500: Cats, cat-sitting, Christmas, and trains

K-Set at Clyde

Monday 23 to Sunday 29 December 2019 was a curious Christmas week, and a week of cat-sitting. I went to an actual Christmas Lunch for the first time in 15 or maybe even 20 years. And then there was… well… you’d better read on.

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Posted on 10 November 201910 November 2019

Weekly Wrap 493: Productivity pause, and now the threat of bushfires

Train at Blacktown station

My week of Monday 4 to Sunday 10 November was one of the low points in my productivity cycle. I’m getting used to it. It’s nothing to worry about. It’s just that I have little to report this week.

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Posted on 13 January 201927 January 2019

Weekly Wrap 450: Building energy for a year of work

My week of Monday 7 to Sunday 13 January 2019 was another mostly quiet one, continuing a lovely lazy start to the new year. Delight. And needed.

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