Senses working overtime #568

1 Busy week!

Photo by Rey Joson on Unsplash

A midweek trip to Auckland for two days + three teaching days + a school open day on Saturday ratcheted up the busy-ness.

2 Watching: The Iris Affair (TV on Demand)

This started out well but after three episodes it is starting to wobble a little bit. There's only so much suspension of disbelief that is possible over ten episodes (each lasting an hour).  

3 Listening: Argent - Argent

A prog rock offshoot from The Zombies. Hits all the right marks for me.

4 Reading: Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday

I finally found a copy in a great bookstore in Parnell on our visit to Auckland midweek.

5 Listening: WTWMC - Weather with you

The playlist has reached its bonus week after 4 weeks and 60 songs (clearly I've missed a song in the loong week just gone - the spreadsheet team needs to come to the rescue).

Overtime: Ryan Holiday

'Ego is the wicked sister of success'.

Senses working overtime #567

1 Word of the week: Forward

2 Watching: Formula 1 - Drive to Survive Season 8

Season 8 delivers the same high octane drama of the previous seasons. Throw in a smattering of super models, petulant drivers, control freaks and it's a crazy, fascinating world. My favourite couple is Toto and Susie Wolff. A great combo!

3 Reading: Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho

4 Listening: The Mutton Birds - Envy of Angels

Chock full of great songs that one and, be warned, I can't get the earworm She's Been Talking out of my head.

5 Listening: New Wander to Wozza's Music Club playlists 

Weather with you continues and is joined by WTWMC #6 (2026) tracks our Album of the Week selections.

Overtime: Helen Hayes

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Senses working overtime #566

1 Whoosh

This week started with an exeat day on Monday (mid-term break) and ended with athletics day in the blazing hot Hawke's Bay sunshine on Friday, so the week whooshed on by me.

2 Listening: WTWMC - Weather with you

3 Reading: Mojo Magazine #385

Still, feeling a little bereft without the Truman biography as part of my daily routine, but the latest (to NZ) edition of Mojo is helping me get past it.

4 Listening: The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

5 Watched: The Lincoln Lawyer season 4

The case against Haller is pretty flimsy and the resolution is too pat, but the season's ten episodes still kept us entertained.

Overtime: Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Senses working overtime #565

1 This week: Irene Purdy remembered

This week has been tinged with sadness as Irene Purdy passed away, aged 104. My more detailed thoughts and tribute will be posted tomorrow on Wozza's Place.

2 Watched: Beckett on Netflix

3 Listening: Come Dancing with The KInks

4 Lent: Avoiding snacks between meals

Photo by Mae Mu on Unsplash

My 40 day sacrifice will be to avoid morning tea, afternoon tea for 40 days. This will be hard for me because I love to graze and doing this sacrifice while working at Iona College means abstaining from delicious morning teas.  So, no cookies or Snickers bars on the post-school commute for a while. Hard, but not impossible.

5 Listening: WTWMC - Weather with you

The three amigos are compiling a weather playlist. We predict some rain, sunshine, wind, snow, storms, lightning, hurricanes and even a heatwave or two over the next few weeks.

Overtime: Galaxy Quest

 

Senses working overtime #564

1 The feeling this week: Autumn is here

Fading hydrangeas tell the story of a weakening summer sun and an impending autumn.

2 Reading: Haruki Murakami - The Elephant Vanishes

3 Watching: The Night Agent (season 3)

4 Listening: Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Part One

Just one track? Try This Time Tomorrow

5 Reading: Blogpost of the week - I dreamed of two blue orchids

Overtime: Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Senses working overtime #563

1 The feeling this week:

2 Reading: The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin

3 Listening: The Hollies - Another Night

I'm thoroughly enjoying my Hollies-a-thon for my Goo Goo G'Joob blog. Rediscovering the joys of all those seventies albums. Another Night is a five-star effort.

4 Watched: Deeper on Netflix

Jacky's choice and it turned into a brilliant one.

5 Listening: WTWMC - Fresh finds

Our latest playlist is done and dusted!

Overtime: Marsha Petrie Sue

Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.

Senses working overtime #562

1 My week in weblogs

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It's been a long week - split by a visit to Palmerston North (phase one of the root canal). It included a meet the teachers' evening and swimming sports on Saturday. 

So, here's a recap of my blogging this week (didn't quite get to a new post on Destination Records unfortunately).

2 Baggy Trousers - mea culpa

3 Wozza's Place - pay up

4 Goo Goo G'Joob - Edgar Winter

5 The Purdzilla Show - moments

Overtime: WTWMC - Fresh finds (now at 90 songs)