Sometimes, you just need to get away from it all. That's what we were looking for when we booked a weekend at Wallaby Ridge Retreat for our recent wedding anniversary, and it definitely delivered. We were in desperate need of a break from the cleaning, the mowing, the … [Read more...] about A Weekend at Wallaby Ridge Retreat
Travel
Exploring Canberra by Segway
When I posted this pic of our Canberra segway ride on social media earlier this year, I received a flurry of questions in response. Mostly they were some variation of: Is it hard to ride a segway?! Let me preface this by saying, I am not the most coordinated person in … [Read more...] about Exploring Canberra by Segway
The Non-Arty Person’s Guide to the National Gallery of Australia
Although I think of myself as being quite creative (I'm a writer after all), apparently, I am missing the arty person gene. According to my high school art teachers, I'm no good at creating it, and even more rubbish at critiquing. Even when I helped Miss 21 with her art … [Read more...] about The Non-Arty Person’s Guide to the National Gallery of Australia
Budget Weekend Getaways
What sort of pictures come into your mind when you think of budget weekend getaways? Somewhere old and shabby, with cigarette burns on the bedspread and stains on the carpet? Moth eaten curtains? Furniture left over from the seventies? Or maybe a backpacker hostel, with … [Read more...] about Budget Weekend Getaways
Did you have a Babymoon?
How sweet is the hubster - last week when he did the grocery shopping (yes, real men do the grocery shopping!) he bought me a magazine "just because". Love that man! It was as I was reading the December 2017 edition of the Australian Women's Weekly, that I came across a … [Read more...] about Did you have a Babymoon?
