Week 18/2024: Walnuts and climate wars
Week of 22 April 2024 Walnuts and climate wars As well as walnuts and climate wars, which I’ll get to in a bit, this was an entertaining week. Slabs and I went to see Dawn French is a Huge Twat at Wrest Point and Kramstable went to Melbourne with...
Week 16/2024: A recap of the week
Week of 15 April 2024 This is a quick summary of week 16 while I catch up with the travel blog posts from the Canberra and NSW trip. You can read the first travel blog post here. Week 16 summary Habit tracker 9.30 shutdown: 3/7 days 8,000 steps: 7/7...
Canberra & NSW travel blog part 1
Week of 15 April 2024 The first week of school holidays. This week we travelled to Canberra and New South Wales to celebrate a family member’s 80th birthday. Canberra & NSW travel blog part 1: Canberra Day 1: Arriving in Canberra The first leg of our trip was a...
P365 – Day 262 – flowers (19/09/2011)
Our last day. Juniordwarf, Slabs and I went to Floriade, Canberra’s annual spring festival, with Grandma. We had a couple of hours there. Juniordwarf loved smelling the flowers, even the ones that weren’t scented. In amongst the stalls was the Chilli...
P365 – Day 261 – picnicking (18/09/2011)
Slabs and I got a well-earned sleep in this morning, and the family got to experience the fun that is Juniordwarf waking up early on a Sunday morning! We met Lil Sis and Mr Tall for a picnic lunch at Weston Park and a ride on the miniature railway. ...
P365 – Day 260 – sight-seeing and partying (17/09/2011)
We went shopping this morning, then did a bit of sight-seeing. Or rather, we went to Parliament House. Juniordwarf loved the water feature at the front of Parliament House, and insisted on dipping his feet in. After that, we drove up Mount Ainslie to show Juniordwarf Canberra from above....
P365 – Day 259 – remembering (16/09/2011)
Today marked two years since my father passed away. I wanted to do something to remember him, but wasn’t really sure what would be the right thing to do, especially since we’d be on holidays. I decided that, as Dad had served in the military and had spent many...
P365 – Day 258 – happy birthday (15/09/2011)
Today was Juniordwarf’s birthday. He’d been so excited about it: the holiday, being with Slabs’ family, getting a pirate cake . . . and he said he was going to wear his pirate suit all day. When I asked him what he wanted for his birthday he said he...
P365 – Day 257 – travel-log Day 4 (14/09/2011)
Today was the last day of our road trip, from Tumut to Canberra. Goodbye Grandma & Grandad We did the obligatory stop at the Dog on the Tuckerbox (where Juniordwarf, upon learning that we didn’t know the Dog’s name, decided that its name was Charlotte). We’d stopped there the...
P365 – Day 254 – travel-log day 1 (11/09/2011)
Today’s schedule: Get up at 4.00 am for a 6.00 am flight to Canberra via Melbourne. Pick up hire car. Drive to Adaminaby via Cooma. The map Slabs and I gave Juniordwarf his own little trolley case as an advance birthday present yesterday, so he could have his things...