Year: 2022

The perfect Sunday outing – first to Scenic Rim Farm Shop for some fresh produce, a lovely lunch and delicious cakes. The jacarandas were absolutely majestic and the bees were buried deep in Elderflower Farm’s blooms. https://www.scenicrimfarmshop.com.au/ On the way back a walk around the flowering jacarandas of Goodna. A beautiful sunlight piercing the purple canopies.

  The Dandelion Dance  Dispersed and drifting  Animating Breeze  No one to guide you  Do just as you please  Each little movement  Lost in the sky  Invisible planting  Of seeds, one cant buy New plants, new cycle  Despair is unknown  Allows your purpose  No judgement here shown  Carefree acceptance  Each seed is thus grown… I…

Today is another special day – celebrating my Liverpudlian lad though he is miles away across the pond. He is forging an exciting and active life for himself in London. It is also the sudden arrival of summer – this may be a false start as we have some time to go before summer starts…

Nick’s first day as an Aussie was blessed with blue skies and sunshine. Both have been in short order on the eastern seaboard due to La Nina being around for a third straight year – so we headed down to Bondi and began what is probably my favourite walk eva. Bondi to Tamarama headland to…

October the 18th found us in Sydney joining Nick at Woollahra  Municipal Council overlooking the Bay.  A beautiful building set in some lovely gardens where a diverse group of residents took the Pledge to become Australians. Nick was one of them. The Mayor gave a wonderful speech saying how happy she was to be holding…

 It’s Jacaranda time here in Brisbane and I miss my tree – so for old times sake here it is.  The absence of one however has pushed me to create another – so from the stone/pip/seed of Russ’s avocado I nurtured it in a cup of local artist and ceramicist Tony Rice, until it suddenly…

The road back to Adelaide was tinged with historical memories and monuments and great canvases of colour. We stopped off in Hawker for their unusual War Memorial. Seating and flowers, as well as Ned Kelly figures and old gun carriages but also plaques to fallen heroes and I stood horrified before this one where I…

Wilpena Pound is an extraordinary geological formation, an amphitheatre of mountains – Its name suggests a place of bent fingers, cupped hands and you will soon understand why. The Adnyamanthanha tribe talk about the Pound- Ikara, the meeting place being formed when two dreaming serpents went there and gorged on people along the way and…

The region is renowned for its geological history, ancient fossils and Aboriginal rock art. Well that sums it up in one sentence but the impression it leaves is very long lasting.  We entered the Flinders Range- Ikara ( Meeting Place)  and drove down the Brachina Gorge. We stopped to see fossils in ancient rocks, shells,…

Tyler, our pilot was good at pointing out the Cattle stations as we flew over them. There is only one word really which sums them up – VAST. Anna Creek Station which surrounds William Creek is the world’s largest cattle station – it is larger then the whole of Israel just to give you an…