On Sunday we went to the Bulimba Festival 2013. Hold on a minute Bob! Whoa!! Only the other week you went to Sandgate and the Einbunpin Festival. Before that, you went to the Winter Lights Festival, Racecourse Road, Ascot and it was less than three months ago you wrote about Brisbane Festivals and Shows: A [...]
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Today is People’s Day here in Brisbane. What is People’s Day? You may well ask, because this week was the first I’d ever heard of it. Further investigation suggests to me that the actual title of this day is the “Royal National Agricultural Show Day Queensland” but I can see how much easier it is [...]
On Friday I talked about the things that I really like about Brisbane, in particular the climate and that it is good for its outdoor recreational environment. I have also written a few posts about how Australians love their sports and do take them seriously. This weekend the climate, the sport and the outdoor recreational [...]
Regular readers will know that each year when Christmas arrives, it takes me by complete surprise. Well, it is so warm… On Friday I realised that every year when winter arrives, it takes me by complete surprise. Well, it is so warm… Twilight Market Friday evening we took ourselves off to what I thought was [...]
Today I would have loved to have told you all about my Saturday night out. Me and a few of my friends took ourselves over to the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane to watch the British and Irish Lions take on the Queensland Reds in rugby union. But, unfortunately, I can’t tell you about it because… [...]
It was one of those weekends when we have been spoilt for choice. It was a busy weekend for festivals and shows and although winter is only two weeks away, the weather was perfect. Around 23°C and sunny with clear blue skies. So, where could we have gone? Noosa Food and Wine Festival Yes, we [...]
I learnt quite a bit today; here is what I learnt and where I learnt it… About Buddha ‘Every living being has the same basic wish – to be happy and to avoid suffering. Even newborn babies, animals, and insects have this wish. It has been our main wish since beginningless time and it is [...]
It’s amazing that we have lived here in Brisbane, same house, for more than five years and it wasn’t until about a month ago that we heard about one of our local beauty spots, JC Slaughter Falls. A friend of my wife’s mentioned it to her. What is so amazing about this place is it’s [...]
