Just for a short while anyway. I’ll be slipping under the blogging radar for a few weeks. I play a part in putting on a Show and it takes up all of my time and saps my energy. But I’ll be back and by then it will be Spring time in this neck of the woods and we’ll be […]
This week marks the tenth anniversary of our arrival in Adelaide, South Australia as migrants. One thing that was lacking in our new life was the ability to reminisce with our new found friends. We had no ground to go back on and no memories to share. I will always remember the first time that […]
Ten years ago today, along with hubby (the chef) and two children, we left our home country and the people we love more than anything else in the world for a new life in Australia. What a crazy thing to do; who does that? Who takes their children away from their friends and family that […]
Today in Adelaide we were blessed with a dry and mostly sunny day which was wonderful after the recent wintery run of cold and wet weather. I was relieved because I went to watch my son play rugby. As I stood on the side line watching, I couldn’t help but think what a wonderful outlet […]
Our family treasure George. Rescued from the care of the RSPCA he came to live with us for eight years.
I wanted to revisit Day Fifteen: Landscape with a gallery of Australian landscape shots. In contrast to Creakingbones who used dramatic images of the arid outback, here you will see images of the Adelaide Hills and one of South Australia’s wine regions, McLaren Vale.
From geometric patterns on skyscrapers to the ironwork on historical buildings, there are many opportunities to capture the beauty and complexity of architecture. It would have been easy for me to use the images of the Sydney Opera House from our Day 7 assignment, but that’s no fun! Instead I spent some time capturing images […]
Happy first day of Spring to all my family, friends and fellow bloggers who reside in the northern hemisphere. With your Spring comes our Autumn; the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfullness’. The ripening on the vines and the lengthening of the afternoon shadows. The 2014 vintage is well underway in our local wine region, […]
With easy access to so much information at our finger tips on the ‘interweb’, there is no excuse for not researching your new home and culture as you embark on your new life in a new country. Even with an abundance of websites and forums to aid your transition into a new culture, there will […]
I have been saving wine corks for quite a few years now with the plan to turn them into a cork board. Unfortunately, it is taking quite some time as most of the Australian wine I enjoy is sealed under Stelvin screw caps. My daughter asked me the other day if I was ever going to […]
Waking the Wombat