Last weekend was the Australia Day long weekend. Australia Day, on the 26th of January, is the anniversary of the First Fleet arriving in Sydney in 1788. Some people call this Invasion Day, referring to the fact that Australia already…
Category: Life in Tasmania
God Jul och Merry Ozmas!
Friends and family in the Northern hemisphere always seem fascinated by the idea of a summer Christmas, so I thought I’d show you what ours is like. I’ll admit that in my heart Christmas should be in the middle of…
12 of 12, June 2011
12 June 2011 was very typical of our Sundays lately. Making a Sparky makes me tired, so we don’t get out and do much exciting. One thing we do every Sunday is go to the farmers’ market for breakfast. Since…
Sun, Fun, and Blood
I’m going to blame @DelBoy1203. He was giving me some crap about not updating this blog, and I said I didn’t have much happening. We have lots going on in the garden, which I document at Lottie’s Lot, but with more…
Walking to Work: Late Winter Edition
Walking to work each morning is still such a pleasure. Yes, we’ve had a dry winter and will probably be feeling it come summer, but it’s meant we’ve hardly had any days we couldn’t walk to work because of inclement weather. …
Walking to Work
Maybe this doesn’t make for the most exciting post in the world, but I thought I may as well write something other than a 12 of 12 post! The husband was never keen on going to the gym, but lately…
Walking and Dining In and Around Cygnet
It’s been a while since we’ve done any of our ‘usual’ things, so in an attempt at normality we headed south to do some geocaching and enjoy at meal at The Red Velvet Lounge at Cygnet. First we did a…
12 of 12, May 2009
12 photos taken on the 12th of May. As usual with these, it wasn’t an exciting day. This month documents a typical work day. The only thing out of the ordinary is some preparation for a long weekend in Adelaide,…
12 of 12, April 2009
12 photos taken on the 12th of April. Not a very exciting day. It was Easter Sunday, aka ‘Chocolate Day’ in our house. We had planned to do a nice long bushwalk on Mt Wellington, however we postponed the walk…
12 of 12, March 2009
I love the idea of the ’12 of 12′ project: take 22 pictures on the 12th day of each month. Why? For several reasons. We often go out of our way to photograph special things or special days, however lose…