Yvette Wroby shares her joy at reading Ken Haley’s latest book and spoke at length with the author to help contextualise a great journey of will, determination and a handful of sheer luck.
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Almanac Book Review – Ken Haley’s The One That Got Away: Travelling in the Time of COVID
February 21, 2022 by Leave a Comment
AFLW: Some reflections on the AFLW’s 2022 Pride Rounds
February 14, 2022 by 1 Comment
Yvette Wroby shares some thoughts on AFLW Pride, sharing both some personal experiences as well as resources she has found helpful in stumbling her way to an understanding of the current family and societal situation.
Almanac (Cartoon) Footy – AFL Grand Final 2021: What a MARVEL-ous game it may be!
September 20, 2021 by 1 Comment
Yvette Wroby is reliving every Marvel movie this lockdown; it has inspired her cartoon insights into this year’s Grand Final. May the best team win, and may the game be spectacular and marvel-ous!
AFL Finals Week 1: It wouldn’t be a final series without…
September 1, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Yvette Wroby on Toby Greene, Melbourne, and the tribunal. It’s AFLM finals time.
Almanac Life: Covid-19 Life and Hair
September 1, 2021 by 2 Comments
Yvette Wroby and Colin are having a bad hair Monday. Or Tuesday. Or whatever day it is….
Almanac Life: A Covid-19 walk with Colin and a mask….
August 24, 2021 by 2 Comments
Yvette Wroby is out and about walking her dog Colin. She has created some drawings of their walk.
Almanac (Cartoon) Life: Covid-19 lockdowns have taught me…
August 23, 2021 by 1 Comment
One constant for Yvette Wroby over all of the lockdowns has been Colin the dog’s nightly toilet trips…and the night sky.
Almanac (Cartoon) Life: Maybe next year…
August 17, 2021 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby is hoping for a better future, for the planet and the Saints…
Round 20 – St Kilda v Carlton: There goes another season and the hot air of expectation
August 5, 2021 by 9 Comments
Yvette Wroby knew her Saints were in trouble when they were favourites against the self-deprecating Blues and their supporters….Saints by a million they said!
Round 6 – Port Adelaide v St Kilda: A St Kilda’s state of mind
May 1, 2021 by 3 Comments
Yvette Wroby stopped writing for the Almanac when St Kilda gave her little joy. There just wasn’t much to say. But with higher expectations in 2021 and disappointing performances, pictures tell it so much better.
Finals Week 1 – St Kilda v Western Bulldogs: Feeling the dogs breath and love at a distance.
October 6, 2020 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby has recovered enough from the Elimination Final to write a report. Just. Now it’s time for the semi’s and the nerves are almost ready for another hit.
Round 13 – Brisbane v St Kilda: It’s a LOT
August 28, 2020 by 3 Comments
There’s a game of footy which Yvette Wroby watches via the Fan Zone, but there’s so much more. The Robert Muir story. An interview with ChicksTalkingFooty on JoyFM, a St Kilda AFLW Best and Fairest to look forward…there’s a LOT.
Round 11 – St Kilda v Geelong: Been there, had that done to us before
August 11, 2020 by 2 Comments
Yvette Wroby is a woman of few words this week. The defeat at the hands of the too strong Geelong FC with Jack Steven in hoops, well, only art will suffice in these bleak times.
Round 9 – St Kilda v Sydney: With Pride
August 2, 2020 by 6 Comments
Yvette Wroby has been very quiet, footy-wise, during lockdown and COVID19, but it is with great PRIDE that she has returned to celebrate this special win.
Round 3 – Sometimes there are no words
June 22, 2020 by 9 Comments
There were no words for the disappointment of Saturday afternoon’s Collingwood v St Kilda match for Yvette Wroby… But why not share your own words or images if you were on the losing end of the “weird” games of this week’s round?
Round 2 – St Kilda v Western Bulldogs: Saints Alive!
June 19, 2020 by 6 Comments
Yvette Wroby, with her Saints in seventh place, allows herself to be once again, consumed. St Kilda played so well all the other wonderful distractions and obsessions have been put in place. A Monday has never felt as good.
Round 4 AFLW – St Kilda v Fremantle: Heartwarming then heartbreaking – a truly Moorabbin afternoon
March 5, 2020 by 2 Comments
In the St Kilda Football Club’s inaugural AFLW season, Yvette Wroby finds this particular loss the hardest to bear thus far. Yet there were still so many positives.
AFLW Round 3 St Kilda v Melbourne Moorabbin Alive with Pride and our newest G Train.
February 27, 2020 by 2 Comments
There were two wins at Moorabbin last week, the AFLM practice match and an AFLW first win for Yvette Wroby’s St Kilda women’s team. In a Pride Game, there was so much to be proud of.
AFLW Round 2 – Adelaide v St Kilda: Away and Home
February 20, 2020 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby finds a way to follow her Saints girls in Adelaide. Using all forms of media and her nanna skills, she watches an improved St Kilda go down in the last quarter to the experienced Adelaide Crows outfit. Who says the Crows need their superstars to win.
Almanac (Cartoon) Life: Has anyone noticed?
Yvette Wroby on the world and footy…..