This episode was a breath of fresh air as Hugh didn’t go on a bender and the focus started to shift to the other characters. Dinah—I thought I’d start this episode’s review by focusing on the newest arrival in Whyhope, Dinah, Harriet’s mother and Eliza’s grandmother. Dinah offers to babysit Eliza while Hugh is working, much to his relief as
Read moreThe theme for last week’s episode was “back to the way things were/are”. The theme for this week’s episode was “the more things change the more they stay the same.” Hugh, Penny and Tara—Penny makes the decision to sack Hugh due to the Cardiac Unit deal going south for the Hospital. This leads to Hugh going off to Sydney to
Read moreWrite a diary of a boring person.** Countdown 06:18 (Damien has 15 hours and 17 minutes left to live) I was supposed to be up at six. I jump out of bed, get dressed, and rush downstairs. There was a time when I hated running and now I can’t live without it. I love the feeling of the cool air
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—January 2020 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a COUNTDOWN of some kind. Your story must include a character who SHARES A SECRET. Your story must include the word SERENDIPITY. I actually submitted this for the competition, I didn’t win nor was I shortlisted. *** Countdown 06:18 (Damien has 15
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs for the season, which could include but not be limited to possible story arcs set up in the previous season’s finale. I felt that this premiere only partially did the job. As it has been over a year since the season 3 finale aired, I had to re-read
Read moreAs well as reviewing the parent series, I decided to review the new web series of Playing For Keeps, Playing For Keeps: Sidelines. The Ten Play website states that “a woman’s car is her own personal haven. We make phone calls, we sing along (albeit often off key) to the radio, we check in with ourselves, and most importantly, there’s
Read moreThe Challenge: I chose to complete the 2019 Four Seasons: Four Miles challenge as I was looking for virtual runs to fulfill my Year of the Fun Walk challenge. However as soon as I came across and found out more about it, I fell in love with and chose to complete it as its own challenge. I fell in love
Read moreMy final four mile (6.4 to 6.5km) walk for the 2019 Four Seasons: Four Miles year-long, virtual run challenge was winter. I completed my winter walk on the treadmill at my local gym in two sessions: 3.25km on January 16 and another 3.25km on January 18 2020. This means that this walk was my first fun walk/run for 2020. In
Read moreI chose not to participate in NaNoWriMo 2019, due to my inability to meet the 50,000 word goal and commit fully to the challenge in previous years.
Read morePlease note, this blog post is updated regularly. I went through my blog posts on the TV Week Previews editions for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 to see what new shows I ended up reviewing and what shows I didn’t. The majority of new shows that I blogged about that I said I’d review, I
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