I love flowers – I think they are absolutely beautiful and whenever I see them on other blogs I get insanely jealous because the most I’ve ever managed to grow in my garden is weeds and a cactus, which is why I was surprised when I found this beauty peeking out from the overgrown grass: [...]
Phill and I returned home yesterday morning (Australia Day, how appropriate) at 4am. We were originally due to land at 11pm Monday night, but our plane was delayed two hours due to late arrival, which meant we landed at about 1:15am. Getting through customs in Australia was a huge process, taking about an hour (don’t [...]
I’ll give you some hints: 1. It involved a plane trip, but didn’t take as long as our trip to England. 2. I’ve seen monkeys and puffer fish, and tomorrow I’m going to see (and have a ride on) elephants. 3. I’ve been trying my hand at bartering… but I’m not very good! 4. Everything [...]
I don’t generally make New Year’s Resolutions. I never made them growing up so I guess I just didn’t get into the habit, but this year I found myself thinking about possible resolutions – things I wanted to do or change about myself that would benefit from having a definite start-date. I came up with [...]
Alyndabear recently completed a recap of 2009 on her blog and I thought I’d give it a go. 1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? Didn’t study! 2009 was the first year that I wasn’t at school or university and it was great! What else? I visited some countries I’d [...]
