I love this photo – my two gorgeous ones laughing and enjoying being kids on a swingy roundabout. But they won’t be able to do that again. The fun police – the wrap your children in cotton wool brigade – have decided that it’s too dangerous. I’m in Geraldton and I discover to my SHOCK [...]
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I quite often drive by Karrakatta Cemetary and every time I do recently I feel sad for the pine trees, completely stripped of their foliage in that big March hailstorm. The graves below were covered for weeks with thick mulch. I am guessing it will be a while before they regrow. This is what they [...]
As slack as all shit. Yes that’s me… but in my defence I did travel a lot last week. This is the Giant Ram in Wagin, home to the Wagin Woolarama. I thought it would be a fun little detour but it added HOURS to our journey. Still at least I got a photo of [...]
On a recent trip to Albany I went down to the windfarm – about ten minutes out of town or so – to check it out. The turbines are impressively big. The whooshing noise they make impressively loud. And the cliffs reminded me of the Cliffs of Moher. Vaguely. There are lots of fun stats [...]
I’m listening to Corrine Bailey Rae’s Put Your Records On, it’s just the perfect Sunday morning track. This morning we wandered down to the port to check out the Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger liner in the world. Three times the size of the Titanic, the ship dwarfs the Fremantle Passenger Terminal. We couldn’t [...]
How beautiful is that pool. I started work early yesterday so I could snaffle an hour by the pool in the afternoon. Lucky I did because the thunderclouds rolled in. We were having a little barbie near the pool and the lightning scared the kids a little. It was spectacular. Sadly no rain which means [...]
On Wednesday I caught the bus from Esperance to Kalgoorlie… it was quite the experience. It’s pretty cheap – only $52 for a five hour ride through the flat brown land into the desert. The bus was about five minutes late and when the driver pulled up he jumped out, flung open the luggage compartment [...]
I’m in Esperance. Esperance is on the south coast of Western Australia – south of Kalgoorlie. It is a long way from anyone and not really on the way to anywhere. But. It. Is. Beautiful. People who visit Esperance will tell you how stunning and unspoilt the beaches are. You’ll hear about Twilight and Salmon beaches [...]
Where do you think this church is? It could be in Europe – a sunny part obviously – it could be in South America or Mexico. It’s in Mullewa, about an hour east of Geraldton in the midwest. Coming across this church as the sun set on Wednesday was surreal. I had driven up with [...]
It’s the first day of my holidays and to make it feel like a holiday and not just a weekend, instead of a walk by the beach I insisted we swim around the Cottesloe pylon. I needed to feel sand between my toes and have the sharp bite* of the Indian Ocean wake me up. [...]
