Water “Play” on a Cold Day
It’s Friday. Nanette says she loves Fridays, because we get to “do some jobs around the house”.
A brief escape to Tamborine Mountain
The longer we’re married, the better my wife No’s me.
Picture the scene. We’re sitting on the couch on a cold Toowoomba night, deciding what we’ll do for our wedding anniversary. A weekend away would be nice.
We’re Going to Get Fit – One Day
Have you ever told yourself you’ll get fit – soon? Well, as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for!
Ouch! Let it Bee, let it Bee
Some people have rainbows, or fairies, or little men with bad tempers and pointy hats at the bottom of their gardens. We have bees.
A Whale of a Time
That’s amazing”, she says. “I’ve just put our Hervey Bay trip into my calendar and Facebook has sent me an ad for whale watching!” Uh oh, here it comes.
Slow to learn
There’s an ancient riddle that goes “if a man is alone in the middle of the forest, and there’s no woman around, is he still wrong?” I learned today, yet again, that the answer is always “Yes!”
Finding Adventure in a Quiet Place
The shark is harder to see now, just a vague dark shape in the water about ten metres offshore. It seems to know that today is not its day. No easy meal of man-flesh, washed into the deep by the raging current.
I’ll sea you Zen
We once visited a famous, ancient garden in Kyoto, Japan. It only consists of a small courtyard with fifteen rocks, set on little patches of moss, surrounded by carefully raked gravel. Every day, hundreds of visitors come just to sit, in quiet contemplation, looking at the rocks. Some, like me, try to work out the…
A More Conventional Travel Blog
I’ve sometimes wondered what it would be like to write like a “real” travel blogger. Who knows, I might immediately get offered perks like six free nights at the Paris Hilton – or not.
That Elusive Upgrade
My friend John was recently quoted as saying “my phone doesn’t understand emojis, and neither do I”.
LamondG 