Episodes

  • Ep 146 Christmas dishes

    Ep 146 Christmas dishes
    Dec 19 2023
    This week our thoughts turn to Christmas. I chat with Scottie about what I think are the best Christmas decorations. (Hint, it's not about what the house looks like.) Links: Find the text version here. https://ruthamos.com.au/podcast/ep-144-little-beauties/ https://ruthamos.com.au/podcast/ep-145-community/ https://www.strugglecare.com/book https://www.strugglecare.com/podcast-rss https://www.fairplaylife.com/the-book https://www.everodsky.com/unicorn-space
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    21 mins
  • Ep 145 Community

    Ep 145 Community
    Dec 6 2023
    This week there is no chat with Scottie, but I chat with you about the importance of community. Yes, even for introverts like me. Please join my newsletter at ruthamos.com.au You can read a blog version here. Song Space and Creative Space are two groups that run from St Luke's Taroona. National Novel Writing Month is over for this year but it is a whole lot of fun.
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    24 mins
  • Ep 144 Little Beauties

    Ep 144 Little Beauties
    Nov 22 2023
    This podcast Scottie and I talk about beauty and then I have a chat about things I've found beautiful lately. Let me know what you've found beautiful. Share it on Facebook, X (@aquietlifeblog), or write to me at ruth@ruthamos.com.au You can find a text version here. 'Have nothing in your houses that you don't know to be beautiful or believe to be useful,' William Morris. Holy Post Podcast Podcast on 'hunt the good' Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w
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    28 mins
  • Ep 143 Starting Over

    Ep 143 Starting Over
    Nov 8 2023
    This episode, Scottie and I talk about starting over in housework, writing, exercise and those sorts of things. And starting over in life – forgiveness. I discussed Viktor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning) and his 'Why' and 'How', and Eve Rodsky and her Unicorn Space. Sign up to my newsletter at ruthamos.com.au. You can find a text version here.
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    30 mins
  • Ep 142 Do your bit

    Ep 142 Do your bit
    Oct 25 2023
    In this episode, Scottie and I talk about household chores. We discuss doing the whole chore, not just the surface work and also being aware and grateful for the work that others do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_kXIGvB1uU You can find a text version here, or sign up to my newsletter here.
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    27 mins
  • Ep 141 Read!

    Ep 141 Read!
    Oct 11 2023
    This week, Scottie and I talk about reading. And I can't believe how much I have to say about it. You can find the blog post here. Spring Festival St Luke's Taroona Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival Clean Indie Reads My book suggestions

    Mystery: Anything by Dorothy Sayers. Or my own Deadly Miss series available at rjamos.com. Or Donna Leon, her stuff is set in Venice and is great. And Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club. And Anne Cleaves. And I could go on …

    Urban Fantasy: The City Between series by WR Gingell

    Science Fiction: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (absurd but excellent), and if you like that, a new one called The Pitfalls of Being a Goddess by Eva Leppard.

    Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien but for something lighter and easier, try the Greenwing and Dart series by Victoria Goddard.

    Historical Romance: Anything by Georgette Heyer. Hilarious and light. And Jane Austen, of course: Pride and Prejudice, but also I love Sense and Sensibility and I think my favourite is Persuasion.

    Romance: My Small Town Trouble is a romantic suspense – a bit of romance, a bit of mystery. I’m not a huge romance fan, but there are so many books out there. Romance is probably the biggest genre there is.

    I love stunt memoir – books where the author tries things for a year and writes about it. The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs and A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans were both quite a lot of fun. And I love Deric Longden's writing especially Lost for Words.

    Comedy: Can’t go past The Theatrical Tapes of Leonard Thynn by Adrian Plass. I cry laughing every time I read it.

    Literary fiction: I love the My Friend series by Jane Duncan. And the book I love most of all is The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Goudge.
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    43 mins
  • Ep 140 How to Make it in Hollywood

    Ep 140 How to Make it in Hollywood
    Sep 26 2023
    Scottie and I talk about three basic steps that you need to take to make it in Hollywood, or anywhere. I know very little about the Hollywood scene but my sister Catherine Joy works there in her business Joy Music House and this podcast is based on an answer she gave at a Q&A recently. You can find the text version here.
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    32 mins
  • Ep 139 Live in the Now

    Ep 139 Live in the Now
    Sep 12 2023
    This week, Scottie and I talk about what attitude to have as we approach a really busy time. It's about planning for the future, but living in the present. You can find the text version here.

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    27 mins