Out of the blue, we’ve booked a week’s holiday in Darwin! When we did our big trip around Australia, we never completed the lap – it took us six months to get half way (Brisbane to Perth) and then we had to turn around and head home again. The husbear grew up in north Queensland […]
Inspired by Little Women
One of my favourite books growing up was the Louisa May Alcott classic, Little Women. I was reminded of this when I caught a snippet of the movie on TV recently – what I think of as the “new” version, starring Susan Sarandon as Marmee and Winona Ryder as Jo. However Miss 26 informed me […]
3 Things I Learned on the Weekend
It’s a short and sweet blog post today, as we travelled to Rockhampton on the weekend. For those not in the know, Rocky is more than 7 hours’ drive north of Brisbane – yet we still managed to pack a lot into just two days, including a lovely walk around the Botanical Gardens and a […]
A Beach Shack on Coochie
It’s no secret that the husbear and I have long loved Coochiemudlo Island; it’s our happy place. What I have kept secret however, is that we bought a holiday house there about a year ago! It’s been a loooonggg time coming. We first dreamed of buying a property on the island, in the late 1990’s […]