It’s that time of year again, when I review the photographs I’ve taken around Tasmania during the past twelve months and select a few for my calender, which I produce as a gift for family and friends.
Ways to visit the Tasman Peninsula
The Tasman Peninsula has long been a leading destination for a short break. Enterprising operators and their experiences are keeping it popular.
Hobart’s architecture from colonial to modernism
Hobart’s architecture from colonial to modernism was on show at Open House Hobart 2019
Oatlands Heritage and Bullock Festival
Hardy folk were proceeding with the advertised program at various locations around the town, many of them indoors, or at least providing heritage-listed sandstone walls to shelter behind and roaring fires to thaw frozen extremities.
Embracing the chill at the Huon Valley Midwinter Festival
If you are serious about celebrating the coldest, darkest, wettest time of year, you need to take the weather in your stride, whatever it brings. And put your gumboots on!
Feasts and celebrations
In the quarter century I have lived in my little house in New Town, it has played host to many many feasts, gatherings and celebrations and marked the changing seasons.
Along the Dark Path
Along the Dark Path – Hobart’s Domain takes on a new, nocturnal life during Dark Mofo
Finishing touches
The builder and his crew had done the major construction and fit out, but I had lots to do in planning the fitout and the final interior decoration.
The big renovation
Making the best of paint and polish is all very well, but there comes a point when it’s not enough. No amount of decorative ‘charm’ could cover the fact that the back of the house was decrepit, dark, lacking in space, cold and impractical. Time to bite the bullet and get on with some major renovations.
The gardens of New Town
The garden at New Town had been neglected for years and was overgrown with thorny prunus, long grass and mud.
