Last week while my Mum was visiting Sydney we were able to go along to the John Olsen retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. My knowledge of John Olsen’s work was limited before going. I had seen his work in documentaries and books but I probably wouldn’t have remembered his name if I […]
Australia
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 5 Day 34-35
Driving away from Tamworth the scenery was beautiful. Rolling hills and greenery which is typical of northern New South Wales. I think that part of NSW might be my favourite. We decided to make one more stop overnight on our way home despite the fact that we could have driven straight home from there. We […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 5 Day 32-33
After a lovely night at Mount Morgan we packed up and set off for our next stop, Goondiwindi. We were hoping to visit a couple there of which the husband is also a Congregational church minister. The only reason we went inland was to visit them. It was hot, inland Queensland is a hot place […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 5 Day 29
Our destination for the first night on the way back down to Sydney was the small town of Lucinda. There are personal reasons for this choice and those who know us will get why. The scenery on the way there was absolutely breathtaking. After passing through the towns of Tully and Cardwell we headed along […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 3 Days 9-10 – Brisbane- St Lawrence
We set off towards Cairns on the morning of January 4th with two extras in tow, my nephews. It was a great opportunity to spend some time with them as we don’t see them very often. Cairns is over 1600 kms from Brisbane and we had initially planned to do it over four days. Our […]
Back In the Swing of Things
We’re back! We drove over 7000kms over four weeks and now we’ve hit the ground running as school went back two days after we drove in the driveway. I’ve spent this week washing, sorting and cleaning out. I’ve managed to get the photos off my phone and camera and sort them out a bit but […]
Reverse Garbage Again
For my birthday last year my good friend Sarah sent me a voucher for Reverse Garbage (she knows me well!). Yesterday Michael and I went out there to see what I could find. There were all sorts of things to dig through. I was hoping to find some masonite board or 1970s office stationery but […]
Departure
For the first time in my life we were caught up in a big airport delay on our return to Sydney a couple of weeks ago. We arrived at the airport at the required time but realised when we walked in that the line was very long, maybe 80 metres! We couldn’t work out where […]
Images from January
I had at least another three blog posts planned about our trip away but instead I have decided to make this one the second last (the final one being about our adventurous departure), sharing some photos showing some of the in-between time there. Above you can see the wonderful sunrise view I had every morning […]
Palm Cove
Palm Cove is quite a pretty, tourist-y spot near Cairns. We have been there a few times now and towards the end of our stay we ventured out into the intense heat to go again. The temperature towards the end of our time there was strange for Cairns, it was around 36-37C with 80%-95% humidity […]