Some of you may recall that some time ago I invited the Queensland Fire Brigade (not all of them) round to my house so they could assess fire safety in my home. The visit was certainly very informative and I received some great advice on how to protect our home from fire and what to [...]
June 2010
If you journey south from Brisbane, taking the coastal route, you’ll go past Surfers Paradise after about an hour and a quarter on the road. Keep going and after about two and a half hours you’d be at Byron Bay. Well, just a wee tad past there is a small seaside town called Lennox Head. [...]
If my daughter was 16 years old and told me she was going out, I imagine I would have at least three questions to ask: Where are you going? What time will you be back? Who are you going with? Now, supposing the answer was “I’m going to sail around the world in a little [...]
Some of the more observant of you may have noticed that there was no blog post on Wednesday. Now, I haven’t missed a blog post since I very first started this blog and naïvely believed that I would easily get an Internet connection on the move during our road trip. So why did I miss [...]
