Ruth Callaghan
@ruthcallaghan.bsky.social
Australian who talks, writes & thinks (and sometimes gets paid for the privilege). Delighted by shiny things, travel, family and cryptic crosswords.
It’s like the cavern between what we assume Rome looked like - austere, marble statues, sun-bleached white - and the reality that Romans were huge on psychedelic colour
May 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
It’s like the cavern between what we assume Rome looked like - austere, marble statues, sun-bleached white - and the reality that Romans were huge on psychedelic colour
Norfolk Island independence movement the big winner of the trade war
April 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Norfolk Island independence movement the big winner of the trade war
Oops it’s Wednesday and the supervisor is not amused by my tardiness
March 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Oops it’s Wednesday and the supervisor is not amused by my tardiness
Old Tom, Really Old Tom and Dead Tom would like a word
March 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Old Tom, Really Old Tom and Dead Tom would like a word
It’s voting day in Western Australia which means …
1. Compulsory voting but no one minds
2. Saturday is the big day (but you have several weeks beforehand)
3. Preferential ballots
4. Cake stall at the local school and …
5. A democracy sausage!
1. Compulsory voting but no one minds
2. Saturday is the big day (but you have several weeks beforehand)
3. Preferential ballots
4. Cake stall at the local school and …
5. A democracy sausage!
March 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It’s voting day in Western Australia which means …
1. Compulsory voting but no one minds
2. Saturday is the big day (but you have several weeks beforehand)
3. Preferential ballots
4. Cake stall at the local school and …
5. A democracy sausage!
1. Compulsory voting but no one minds
2. Saturday is the big day (but you have several weeks beforehand)
3. Preferential ballots
4. Cake stall at the local school and …
5. A democracy sausage!
Look it’s a trip but Western Australia has summer about nine months of the year and Canadians are always welcome
March 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Look it’s a trip but Western Australia has summer about nine months of the year and Canadians are always welcome
Saw a TikTok describing the self justification of young male millennial Trump voters as ‘the Charlotte Lucas monologue’ and can’t get it out of my head
January 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Saw a TikTok describing the self justification of young male millennial Trump voters as ‘the Charlotte Lucas monologue’ and can’t get it out of my head
Follow up: this may be the best footnote of all time
January 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Follow up: this may be the best footnote of all time
I just have to admire how Bonnie performs for the camera. Maisie (Scottish Terrier) is rarely as obliging.
January 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I just have to admire how Bonnie performs for the camera. Maisie (Scottish Terrier) is rarely as obliging.
I hear you. Sometimes my dog just misses the point #DogsBehavingWeirdly
December 23, 2024 at 5:48 PM
I hear you. Sometimes my dog just misses the point #DogsBehavingWeirdly
Courtesy of an old shoe store (Betts & Betts)
November 27, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Courtesy of an old shoe store (Betts & Betts)
Can we get one for recovering journalists?
November 14, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Can we get one for recovering journalists?
So WHAT ARE WE READING. You know, besides the portent of the apocalypse. I for one am about to reread Naomi Novik’s rollickingly good adventure Temeraire, where it’s the Napoleonic war but there’s an aerial corps and its dragons.
November 6, 2024 at 7:22 AM
So WHAT ARE WE READING. You know, besides the portent of the apocalypse. I for one am about to reread Naomi Novik’s rollickingly good adventure Temeraire, where it’s the Napoleonic war but there’s an aerial corps and its dragons.
I’m just throwing his brilliant summary of cricket in here and then politely backing away …
November 3, 2024 at 9:54 AM
I’m just throwing his brilliant summary of cricket in here and then politely backing away …
In the spirit of Ea-Nadir Bluesky, was sent this today
October 31, 2024 at 1:15 AM
In the spirit of Ea-Nadir Bluesky, was sent this today
What new madness is this?
October 28, 2024 at 5:02 AM
What new madness is this?
This is wonderfully cathartic
October 26, 2024 at 6:13 AM
This is wonderfully cathartic
The cover immediately triggered a memory. Will hunt out a digital version if I can, because oof!
September 7, 2024 at 10:01 PM
The cover immediately triggered a memory. Will hunt out a digital version if I can, because oof!
A brilliant quote from Clive James, and doesn’t this explain the humourless grind of the far right, seeking to destroy and control what they lack the sense to explain or enjoy.
September 7, 2024 at 12:38 AM
A brilliant quote from Clive James, and doesn’t this explain the humourless grind of the far right, seeking to destroy and control what they lack the sense to explain or enjoy.
I saw this on the Other Place and it felt right to share here, but now I think it is also a mystery. It was attributed to James Baldwin and the same attribution appears over the web, but is it actually the work of Maria Popova writing about him?
September 3, 2024 at 11:53 AM
I saw this on the Other Place and it felt right to share here, but now I think it is also a mystery. It was attributed to James Baldwin and the same attribution appears over the web, but is it actually the work of Maria Popova writing about him?
Winter weather, warm fire, and an absolutely smashing spread at Wild Hop Brewing in Yallingup.
August 16, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Winter weather, warm fire, and an absolutely smashing spread at Wild Hop Brewing in Yallingup.