Every day, I play over the blogs I intend to write in my mind. But every day I get distracted… I blame the birds… I am so busy with the actual process of ‘doing’ that I simply run out of time to write about it. I know I could resort to ai, but this [...]
Hello! I’m back! Well, it has been a long time between drinks, I mean, blogs… My last blog was back in 2019… and A LOT has happened since then! There were a few factors that influenced my blogging tardiness… social media, COVID19, gardening, and just general loss of interest, but the main factor was [...]
North East Victoria has many wonderful hidden treasures, but visiting the ambrosial damask rose gardens of Samaria Farm just out of Benalla for a Rosewater Distillation Workshop, would have to be the most special of treasures and a sensational day out. Rosewater is one of those fragrant ingredients that has always had a place in [...]
A visit to Kangaroo Island goes hand in hand with visiting KI Spirits. If you visit Kangaroo Island without visiting the latter, then you really haven’t visited at all. As my readers would already know, I LOVE a good gin. And next to loving gin, I love visiting gin distilleries – it has become a [...]
With Easter holidays just around the corner, I thought I might put forth a suggestion for some adult entertainment of the gin kind… I love discovering what a region has to offer, and love even more when that discovery involves gin. I admit it. I love gin. I know I am not alone, so I [...]
I love a good food tour. I also love a good brewery tour. Combine the two and you have the Hinterland Farm to Fork Experience by Sunshine Coast Craft Beer Tours, and you really do have the best of both worlds. Happy days! While I won’t give too much away about the actual tour – [...]
Lord Byron Distillery is one of those distillery stories I aspire to… We often reflect on provenance when it comes to our food. Who grows it, the ethics of animal husbandry, organic, chemical free, the passions, etc. But when it comes to what we drink, we stop short. We might be concerned with how pure [...]
Hops. I wonder who it was that first made the connection that resulted in this humble herb’s flower becoming the primary ingredient of beer. Living on the Sunshine Coast, hops is not something that is grown readily – it is more suited to the colder, less humid climates – so there are not too many [...]
It is no secret that I love gin. I like to think that I loved gin way before it became fashionable to love gin. Gin was always my go-to drink; G&T. #yesplease I am not sure what it is about gin that I love so much, but I suspect that it has something to do [...]
Overdue for a bit of R&R, I recently set my sights on Stradbroke Island for a few days away. Living on the Sunshine Coast, it is not too far away, but far away from home enough to feel like we were actually away on a break. North Stradbroke Island, or Straddie, as it is affectionately [...]
