So, after swanning around Magnetic Island on the Providence, and staring out at a marina full of lovely boats for six days from our apartment, we’ve come back home to our view of the Bay with a hankering for a boat again. There is a massive expanse of coastal waterways to explore on our doorstep, […]
Yes I know that’s not a proper word, what are you? the grammar police??! Life is absolutely redonkulously busy right now, and there is really no other way to describe it. I’m currently spending the Easter break baking a huge multi-coloured train cake for my Grandson’s first birthday party; testing nail polish swatches for a […]
It’s New Years Eve, so what better time to review the year and look forward to 2013?! 2012 has thankfully been a very good year for us; the Big Fella got a new job that he’s much happier in and is finding much more time for his family because of it; our boy lost a […]
I’m not going to lie to you: I hate running, I can’t run, I don’t have time to run, I’m really slow, I lose my breath really easily, I get asthma if I try to run, it hurts my knees, it hurts everything, I’ve never been sporty, I’ve never been really fit, my boobs are too big to run….and […]
What’s in a name? Well, quite a lot actually, like my means of identification for a start. I suffer from continual misunderstandings regarding my name and I believe it’s totally and utterly unjustified so I’m taking a stand and writing a post about it. For the record. Written misunderstandings: My first name is……..Dawn. There should […]
This week my husband gave me flowers, and before you go all doe eyed or soppy about that let me first share the accompanying conversation that went with them: The Big Fella: “I got you some flowers” Me: “Because?” The Big Fella: “They are Proteas” Me: “??????? And?” The Big Fella: “Some guy who grows […]
This week I’m getting to the pointy end of my degree, so to speak. On Thursday I will have my very last seminars and SwotVac (Swot Vacation) begins!! Though it may seem a little premature when I haven’t actually received my final results, it is apparently time to order my bat cape/academic dress for graduation…..eeek! Now the […]
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 […]
Now there is a word that I hadn’t heard for years until I was trying to put my blog page together yesterday. For me, and I would imagine quite a lot of my age group in the UK, a widget was the ‘first generation’ Guinness widget which was launched in 1988. I reckon a bloke […]
