Today, (almost all) my family and I farewelled one of the greats. Nan passed away last Wednesday, but because of Covid, we could only have a small service including 20 immediate family and a close friend or two. I was so proud of my mum for delivering a beautiful eulogy. I can’t imagine how hard…
Continue reading →I really wanted to commemorate Frith’s 40th on Wednesday. If he were still here, the party would have been epic, probably lasting a full weekend. The thing is, I have no idea where we would have even been living – which state, which city or country town? So it’s hard to imagine what our lives…
Continue reading →One of the reasons Kristian and Kate came up from Melbourne, apart form seeing us, was to attend Dad’s 70+1 birthday party. We had planned to have it last year of course, but because of Covid, it got delayed a year. But boy was it worth the wait! Mum thought it would be fun to…
Continue reading →I just haven’t had the writing bug this year, but that’s okay, as pictures tell a thousand words! We headed up to Hervey Bay for a weekend away to attend a wedding, and we made a 4-day weekend out of it, staying at an AirBNB in Toogoom. It was magic! This was at our doorstep:…
Continue reading →…. we play in the sand for hours.” Alison Lester is one of my favourite authors, and Magic Beach, gifted to us by Uncle Felix, is one of our favourite stories. It describes a place where families and friends come together to make memories, and use their imaginations to whisk them away to magical places….
Continue reading →I’m sitting at a table that is not my own, surrounded by people who can look after themselves, looking at treetops and the ocean, listening to the wind and the rain, and loving the buzz of activity around me. I am lucky enough to be in an AirBNB on the Sunshine Coast for two nights…
Continue reading →Well my friends, we did it! We survived, and even thrived during our five days on the Burrum River. When telling people about Pizzey’s it’s really hard to explain and describe. But basically it’s fishing “shacks”, built in “units”, a makeshift kitchen where we all make food together, a bucket shower, a flushing toilet (as…
Continue reading →Man I’ve been hard on myself lately about keeping this blog up to date and writing meaningful posts that people can really connect with. My head and heart just aren’t in it at the moment. I get so much lovely feedback from you all that you love my blog and love reading my words and…
Continue reading →It’s Good Friday which means we spent the day at Mum and Dad’s and got one of the best views in town for the start of the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht race! It was a very windy day so the boats flew past and it was over fairly quickly, and a much smaller group this…
Continue reading →I’m sitting at my shiny new dining room table (well fb marketplace new, and new to me) with a hot cross bun and a coffee, enjoying the cool change that has FINALLY come, listening to Chance scraping through Lego, kindly directing Darby to find certain pieces for their latest creation, and listening to Quinn and…
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