It may not be National Poetry Day in your part of the world, and you may be way more interested in the start of the London Olympics…but here in Australia I actually have something personally poetical to celebrate! Today, two of my free verse poems are appearing in the new edition of the free (ironical […]
I know what you might be thinking at this stage, “How Bloody Long Is This Journey Nanna?!!” I’m pretty sure it was only ten days but I appear to have made it last for weeks instead. I promise you this is the last bit, the very end, well The Top End to be precise, as […]
As they say in Hull, ‘Where’s tha bin Lass?’…..well… I’s ‘been’ away for a week in the Tropical North to attend a fabulous wedding, drink and eat too much with my girlfriends, snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef (don’t get too jealous, it was low visibility and pretty damn cold at this time of year!) […]
For three days we were shuffled backwards and forwards between Alice Springs and Uluru so that we could see a sunset and a sunrise on this magnificent and incredible sight. Uluru really does change many different colours, and is also a very different shape depending upon which side you are on. Four months before setting […]
Before we move on to the incredible sight of Uluru (Ayers Rock) I feel I should write a short post about my rationale to ‘add’ WordAds to my blog. This morning I’ve noticed that at the end of my last post there is a small advertising box. It hasn’t come as a complete surprise you […]
For the next three days we toured the surrounding area and discovered that squashing such a big trip into a short timetable has a few disadvantages, namely, coach travel. No offence, but this really is not the best way to see some of these incredible sights, and we got peevish very early on with old […]
