If you'd asked me how many parkruns I might do when someone first encouraged me to go to this "parkrun" thing back in January 2017, I might have guessed that I'd get to 50. While it took me til

Oh dear. It appears to be 1st September, and I feel like I have been MIA from Hive for altogether far too long. There is evidence in my lack of posts, lack of comments, but also that I had a grand total

It’s 5:31 am and we walk out into the cold, dark night. I have my bright headtorch on, and it’s a marked change from inky black that surrounds us. I press familiar buttons on my watch and start a run.

It seems that birthdays appear to create very different responses in different people. I, for one, love being celebrated on my birthday. In fact, it feels really important to me that I am with people who

I've been learning about and playing with different colours in the light spectrum for a few years now. I have come to understand that there are a lot of benefits to red and infrared light. While I can

It was November 2015, and I had just contracted Dengue Fever. I was living on the island of Bali, several thousand kilometres from my family. I knew on that very first night that I had Dengue Fever. My

How did another month go by, just like that, already? It's amazing how fast it goes! This month I was pretty impressed because I managed to power up another 100 HIVE (or stake, as we say). And actually

I had an hour in total between leaving the house and when I needed to get back to the house to be able to go to the local shops: buy a whole bunch of groceries some natural insect repellent pick up a package

We had some guys over yesterday, and they were installing solar panels on our roof. Originally, I thought I would be needed to help, but @new.things let me know they had it covered. I thought I would get

This morning I went for an easy (ish!) jog for the first time since parkrun last Saturday. My watch offered me a Drill Workout, which consisted of a 10 min warm up, 5x 30 sec cadence drills, 5x acceleration

Gosh, it's wet! Today I only managed to get 6,000 steps because it rained and rained and rained some more. I did sneak in a brief walk this morning. I'd watch the rain radar like a hawk and picked a 20

It took us just under 1 hour 15 to run a lap around the perimeter (ish) of the big chunk of bush near our home. After a very broken night of sleep, I wasn't sure that I should be attempting my longest

Almost by accident, my partner (@new.things) and I grew a butternut pumpkin as long as my torso! We like gardening. I grew up with a mother who was into permaculture. And when Brad was a teenager, he tossed

I love books. I was raised by two well-educated humans who were both teachers for a few or a lot of years. They were also both big bookworms. My mother always had a novel on the go, and still does today.

While I was living and working in Central Australia, based out of the very small town of Yulara, I would end up out at K

Just over a month ago, a tragedy happened to a family who live on our street. An 18 year old girl, fell while climbing down a small mountain about 1 1/2 hours north of here. She was climbing with her identical

All caps required to express my excitement 🥳🥳🥳 I did it!! I tried the same basic drill workout that my Garmin training plan had been giving me on repeat for weeks and I finally managed to follow it.

7 weeks, 4 states and territories and 21 beds...

Try and try again? ... A few months ago, we both got new Garmin watches. It was needed; his had died and mine was in its last legs. We decided to get the same model of watch because it was reasonably cheap

I woke up hungry; I must not have eaten enough protein last night. So instead of drinking half a litre of slightly salted water, I drank a few mouth fulls and then headed outside to put my feet on the