And so comes the pause in our trip, the one that we were half looking forward to and half dreading. When planning our trip, we realised that Corey's dad's 70th birthday would be smack bang in the middle of our trip. Our original route had us heading west first and we toyed with the idea …
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Surprise! We’re home… for a short visit anyway
The idea for making a quick dash home to surprise the in-laws had been fermenting for some time. Given that we still needed to pick up our tent and camping gear at some stage in preparation for our trip to Tasmania (or arrange for a friend to bring it to Melbourne, which was the original …
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Home to Poontown
No matter how long you’ve lived away from your hometown, the minute you’re back in the vicinity it always seems like you’ve come home. I moved away from Yeppoon the minute I finished high school. A friend and I threw everything we had into a bunch of bags, caught the tilt train and moved to …
A day at home
Sometimes, after a few weeks of either being away or rushing around, you need some down time in your own space, even if that means staying at home and doing household chores. That pretty much summed up our day today. After swimming lessons were out of the way, we pottered around and did little chores …
A day of little achievement
Woke at 5.45am (thanks Miss A) Out of bed at 6.15am First coffee downed pretty quickly Swimming at 9am Visited friend in hospital to meet her new bubba Came home and put Miss A down for a nap Second coffee Cleaned kitchen aka pushed shit around a million times but never seemed to find a …
‘Tis Monday once more
Seriously, where are these days going? And why are they flying by so bloody quickly??? Another week is upon us and I'm still not feeling as though I've regrouped after facing the same feelings at the start of last week! So that's the plan for this week - getting organised! On my hit list is the …
The long and (not so) windy road
So most of my afternoon has been spent staring down this white line again... But we finally made it home! It's taken us eight hours, a couple of stops (including a brief catch up with a couple of fabulous friends) and dinner in a dodgy roadside cafe before we got here and in spite of having The …
A LIFE LIKE OURS 