Year: 2021

My Xmas cake might give you a clue about where we need to go! The bumps and air pocket icing was the stuff of this last year, leading into the uneven new year. All part of this unpredictable course. The alphabet letters we still have to get through are a fair few.  The last day…

Not much time to sit idle, but a welcome walk in the neighbourhood brings some thoughts to the fore and with these I write my xmas message for this challenging year, the year of two out of three and the borrowed Xmas Tree. A year which brought regulation changes more frequently than we change our…

Today Queensland throws open its borders to the rest of Australia and the world.The feelings in the population range from anxious, about what this might bring to the State, to utter elation at the prospect of being reunited with loved ones. We are in the latter category, and can’t wait to see our two Sydneysiders…

This weekend saw the opening of the APT10 – the Asia Pacific Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art from the region with 150 artists from 30 different countries. It is of course a testament to GOMA and all its teams that they were able to curate and exhibit these works when the whole world has been…

Heading down to Daintree we were graced with the presence of a dingo on an empty road. It is the first dingo we have seen on the mainland aside from those we saw on Fraser island. It was a deep golden colour, lean and so beautiful. No photos. We were busy taking in its surprise…

And the forest comes alive. Now you see me. I am the most beautiful striped Possum and I love sucking a little of the honey from the sap side of this tree. Here you see me going down but I will soon be coming up as well. I take my time because I love it.…

We have always wanted to visit this area. A rich fertile plain full of large farms on a sweeping table land. The earth is solid deep red – it exudes richness. Of course a lot of rainforest has been cleared to create the farmland so this area is now a mix of the two. We…

This trip has brought back memories of Indian railways – Our trip from Shimla down to the valley is  memorable and comparable too. The amazing engineering feats of these railways, the countless lives lost in their construction. On this occasion the most staggering of all to me was the fact that men had to supply…

To the south of Collins Avenue are the Centenary Lakes. A broad area of various types of forest which now have a freshwater as well as a saltwater lake, an interactive kids playground and a Chinese friendship garden. There are boardwalks around the lakes and creeks which are peaceful and pretty.  Look at the symmetrical…

I forgot what it feels like, going out fresh as a Daisy and ending up a sweaty Sweet Pea.  Being in the tropics in Northern Queensland is hot, humid and enriching. Visiting the Botanical Gardens in Cairns was an unexpected delight. What we saw was nothing short of exceptional as the photos will show. The…