The weekend of 13th, 14th & 15th of March 2020 included my 70th birthday and it was the most exciting few days I have had in many years. Enter Kent and Kathy with a surprise destination – a 10th floor apartment for two nights at Kirra with beautiful views of the stunning hinterland and high-rises […]
According to my Macquarie dictionary the word GOOD, stuck between gonorrhoea and goose, means ‘excellent, righteous or agreeable’. The opposite meaning I guess would be BAD, wedged between bacteria and badger and apparently means ‘ not good, inadequate, or unfavourable’. However back to the word GOOD, this benign adjective works its way into everyday sentences […]
Wednesday 19th June 2013 – It was a very uncertain start to our trip because on that Wednesday morning I awoke with severe vertigo, nausea, finding it impossible to stand and spinning in my own world thinking – this cannot be happening! Added to this uncertainty over Keith and Marg, who were to accompany us, with […]
On 14th March 1959 I turned nine years of age. A long awaited day for a highly excitable nine year old however little did I know that what I received that day would follow me for most of my life. No, I don’t mean a dog or cat, I mean a best friend in the […]
The closest city to where I live is Bundaberg. However my post code is Rainbow Beach. The television coverage I receive is relayed via satellite from Alice Springs. I do my shopping at Gympie however I live on an Island and work for a company in Hervey Bay. I am currently talking to one son […]
What bird lover does not like adding to their list of sightings? I am one such person who was fortunate enough to take a 4×4 camping holiday to Cape York recently and several new sightings and confirmations have been crossed off my ‘bucket list of birds’. I guess what struck me most from Palmer River […]
Usually you will find when sitting in front of your computer at work and not engrossed with the task at hand your eyes usually rest upon the familiar surrounds of your desk. Perhaps some sticky notes with obscure messages stuck to the wall, the usual menagerie of pens, paper clips etc, maybe even a two day […]
For about a year now we have witnessed, around our Fraser Island property, a young male dingo easily recognisable as one of his front legs had a longer white sock than usual. When first noticed he was, I guess you would say, in his prime, thin (as they all are) but healthy looking. Our residence […]
I am sitting on the verandah and I thought I would let you see what I am seeing and hearing. The grass is green and growing well almost covering all the sand in site, further down the drive the tracks are not fully covered as there has been much traffic over the past six months. […]
My husband and I are very fortunate to live on Fraser Island. Over the years I have become attached to four other residents of our property. Not more than two paces from where I sit enjoying my cuppa a Noisy Friarbird probes into a nectar- rich grevillea flower. One might say it is an ugly […]