The days are getting shorter at Mawson, everyday 15 minutes a day of light is yielding to night and the moon is still seen high in the sky in the afternoon. The weather is also getting colder, this week -30 with wind chill. It is hideously cold. The windows are triple glazed but there are…
Author: Jenandbobo
Me... basically my favourite things to do are drink wine and eat pasta!!! If I can combine these with travel and my strange ability to end up with the oddest jobs then even better.
I live in a little wooden house that indulges my passion for dark wood floors, vintage chandeliers and a large garden. My partner and I share the house and garden with two elderly cats Lilly and Oscar, three dogs Ollie Bobo, Jack Jack and Mistress and a hive of bees.
ANZAC day
It is the ANZAC day long weekend, and this year I can’t remain completely unknowledgeable or ambivalent because I have to take the dawn service. I never truly engaged with the ANZAC story or really gave it much thought until a few years ago when two events happened, first I moved to the middle east…
Learning to talk boy
I have never had a lot to do with men, they have always been kind of mysterious and slightly odd. I went to an all girls school for most of my adolescents and then I went to Uni and studied nursing were the majority of the other students and lecturers were girls. Since I left Uni…
Hydroponic happiness
So last week, it all started to feel a little bit like ground hog day. Get up, get dressed, go to office, go back to room. 12 weeks in and I was starting to question myself which is kind of unfortunate considering that there is over 6 months to go. Probably wasn’t helped by the…
Climbing a mountain in clown shoes
This week I climbed a Mountain!!!! Now admittedly it was kind of small, probably more of a hill at only 883 metres but I was dead impressed with myself as I sat at the top and surveyed the Plateau. I like to think that I am the outdoorsy type but deep down I know that…
3 little penguins
So the sea ice has finally formed and all we can see in every direction is white, the ocean has disappeared for the next few months. It is still a little bit thin for us to walk on and ‘breaths’ like it is alive, as a wave comes in it inhales and floats up and…
A sad day to be a remote area nurse
Today I am shocked and saddened by the murder of a fellow remote area nurse, I never work with Gayle but I have potentially been in her shoes on many occasions and fortunately walked away every time. On Thursday Gayle was not so lucky and it should be a wake up call for us all….
The ice is forming
In the last week the temperature started dropping and with Equinox on Monday the days will rapidly become shorter. The change has snuck up on me, it is like the seasons just switched all of a sudden. It was minus 17 this morning when I went outside, and there was a light dusting of snow…
Jen Wressell 