I thought I would try my hand at some lavash… I needed some snacks, forgot to buy some, so had to think quick. Lavash are surprisingly quick and easy. I cut them quite roughly as I like them to look less uninform. Just make sure you keep an eye on them, they can go from [...]
It was March 2013, we were in Melbourne, visiting for the Formula 1 Grand Prix, and we passed a little kiosk that made traditional fresh hot sugared jam donuts. You know the sort, the ones that you can smell from 100m down the road, and the jam oozes out all over your hands… Well, my [...]
I decided at the beginning of the year that this year I was going to climb all of the Glass House Mountains and today we climbed the third (though it is officially my fifth – just not this year). I was a little excited about this one… the actual trail was a bit of a [...]
Beautiful... yes, definitely beautiful. I was in two minds about writing about my recent visit to Moreton Island. It was so incredibly BEAUTIFUL, I wanted to scream it from the rooftops, but one of the things that made it so beautiful was the peace, serenity… and lack of people… so I needed to decide whether [...]
I was feeling rather ambitious this Australia Day… thinking a family walk would be a nice Australian way to see the day in and I had always wanted to ‘walk’ to the top of Mt Tibrogargan, one of the ominous peaks of the Glass House Mountains, on the Sunshine Coast’s beautiful hinterland. Mt Tibrogargan had [...]
I love succulents. Our garden is rife with them. They are almost unkillable and are prolific reproducers… especially when you are trying to kill them or being passively indifferent. I decided to make this prolific reproduction work to my favour… quite literally, in the form of ‘succulent wedding favours’ for our recent wedding. Traditionally, wedding [...]
I had never been snorkelling before, I am not quite sure why… I have some recollection of an attempt in younger years, but my memory is more of an extremely unpleasant rush of water up my nose which can be rather off putting, and I presume that this is why a future in underwater exploration [...]
In the order of romance, certain sacrifices need to be made. I am usually all in, so the sacrifices are generally made by my wonderful cherry babe, who was bravely going along with this whole ‘honeymoon thing’. We were actually on our honeymoon, so romantic activities are generally expected, although I tried to make my [...]
It is not easy deciding on a honeymoon destination… just sayin’… It is such an incredibly special moment in any newly married couple’s life, there is a certain sense of expectation and obligation, of how fantastic and ultimately, romantic, that once in a lifetime holiday is actually going to be. Criteria? Well, we had plenty… [...]
For me Queenstown was a lot of firsts… First ski trip, first zipline, first hot air balloon ride, first helicopter flight, first white water raft, first (and only) proposal, and… first Fergburger. Well, considering that you can only get a Fergburger in Queenstown, the fact that it was always going to be a first is [...]
