The family history trail – Part 2
The family history trail – Part 2 Gillingham, United Kingdom Gillingham, United Kingdom I mentioned that our Dad served in the Royal Engineers a few years after the end of World War II. His father had also served with them and had been posted overseas during the war. One...
The family history trail begins
The family history trail begins Salisbury, United Kingdom Salisbury, United Kingdom The main reason for our trip is to visit our Auntie R, our late father’s only sister. She lives in East Sussex, and we’ve only met her once – almost 20 years ago when she visited Australia with...
Tassievore Eat Local Challange – Week 4: Tassievore Dinner Party
Once I’d finished my epic 12 km walk on Saturday, it was time to start preparing my feast for the Tassievore Eat Local Challenge. This was Week 4’s mini-challenge: to have a dinner party where all the food is from Tasmania. I’ll put my confessions up front. The butter...
Bruny – day 2 (part 3)
After we’d finished exploring Cape Bruny (Day 2, Part 2), we still had enough time to head back to north Bruny and visit the Get Shucked Oyster Bar and Bruny Island Cheese Factory. Get Shucked was great. You can buy oysters to eat there with a beverage of your...
Dunalley Hotel
Yesterday we went to Dunalley, the small town that was devastated by a huge bushfire in January. The road to Dunalley I’ve tried several times to write about the trip, but what can you say when faced with such huge devastation? It was heartbreaking to see the effects of...
bushy park show
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it’s been a busy year
Regular readers of this blog (if I still have any left) will notice that this is my first post in over three months. I’m not really sure where to take this blog now. In 2011 I achieved my goal of blogging my 365 Project every day, and earlier this...
east coast retreat (sunday selections)
I’m linking up with River for Sunday Selections today with some photos of our recent getaway. We went away for a few days to the East Coast of Tasmania. It’s not an area I know well, though I have visited parts of the coast previously and I have vague...
P365 – obligatory Xmas post (25/12/2011) (and year in review 6/12)
Just a few photos from our family Xmas. Opening the presents Santa left Checking the presents to take to the rest of the family Juniordwarf played Santa and handed out the presents More presents Best present of the day Part of the spread Juniordwarf and Dad Cheers! Year in...
P365 – Day 348 – graduation (14/12/2011)
Lil Sis and I attended our mother’s university graduation ceremony tonight. This is not the first time she has graduated from a university course. We counted up at least seven qualifications that she has. Lifelong learning indeed. Well done Mum! Every now and then (and especially when other people...