Year: 2021

Yesterday three things happened. I got a friend request from a dead friend. A friend who is alive sent a note to say WHO has declared 65 as still young, and I took my husband to a concert wearing my new Birkenstocks.    You might wonder and rightly so, how all these things are connected-…

Walking back from the radio station today I came across Big Bird on a busy major intersection. Now look closely – yup, perfectly disguised in amongst the leaves is a Bush Stone Curlew – this one was particularly handsome and also not a happy birdie as it issued a loud grrrr sound to me as…

Today I am sharing with you how amusing it is to sit on my deck and watch my menagerie. The show features a couple of cockatoos doing their ballet moves.  PLIER ETENDRE  TOURNER  SAUTER ELANCER RELEVER  And finally the FINALE – having a nibble of my IPhone and deciding it wasn’t as tasty as Sunflower…

The 1st of Movember is here – my Cockatoo is already sporting a great one. He might win this challenge. This day is remarkable for a number of reasons. Today after 600 days of imprisonment, Aussies are FREE to travel overseas without requiring an exemption to leave the Country. Hurray for the Double vaccinated in…

Well almost – Grande Experience has delivered this show since 2011 and some of you may have already seen it but for those who have not, it has just hit Brisbane and it is worth booking your place. He was a troubled but very sincere soul, a man who craved company and friendship and failed…

 This is the real thing. And this is the real thing up-cycled by a very talented artist – this was along one of the walks we did in Currumbin when we were staying down in Burleigh with our friends, Mary and John. Richard Moffatt is the artist who took the real image and up-cycled it…

We went on a 24 kms walk today under threat of rain but we were lucky for most of the morning. This is one of the few instances when the forecast was accurate. We walked the Coomera Falls track down the most scenic trail leading to not just one Waterfall but countless ones – all…

Binna Burra is 800 metres above sea level in the Lamington National Park rainforest. In September of 2019 the Mountain Lodge burnt to the ground as well as countless hectares of forest. It was wonderful to be able to visit it again and although there were signs of those burnt areas the forest is regenerating…

A huge downpour in the night but the day brightened so I set off with Dougall. Yesterday I had gone to a Chemist shop and I realised that it felt liberating walking past the Hair Colouring Section! The only colours that matter are the ones I come across on our walk today.  Everything was glistening…

Off to St Helena today – a small island in Moreton Bay. Beautiful sunny day, calm sea, a short journey by ferry. This island started as a quarantine centre – how of the times – and ended up as Queensland’s first penal colony.  Its name has a story – An aboriginal man whose nickname was…