Introducing: Ketu

Ketu is one of the newest additions to Hamilton Zoo – a red panda cub born to Father Chito and Mother Tayla just before Christmas 2011. Tayla had two cubs however the smaller of the two didn’t survive for long after being born. Hamilton Zoo recently ran a...

The 2012 Great Pumpkin Carnival

On Sunday we went along to the 2012 Great Pumpkin Carnival at Hamilton Gardens. Our friend Sam is one of the organisers – and a grower of giant pumpkins – and Ken and the kids had been before.  I had been told it would be a lot of fun.  Plus it was a...

Tuesday Rocks p5

The last time I wrote a Tuesday Rocks post was when Daylight Savings had just started.  Now we are on the other end of it and Daylight Savings is ending. Summer is over – not that it really ever began – the mornings are a lot darker and it is getting more...

Dude! Where’s my Concentration?

Have I lost my focus?  Did I ever really have it? As 2012 storms along, I am aware that there are still things on my task list that I was thinking about doing at the beginning of the year.  Small tasks, ones that will take around – or less than – an hour...

The ‘Getaway Weekend’

Marcia and I have been planning this for a while.  I’m going to pretend it was all about the two of us getting out to the Poor Knights Islands for a day of diving …. but in all reality it was a little more than that. On a Friday afternoon, Ken drove up...

Early is good

First time in a while that I have been super early for something. So I thought I would celebrate. And it takes the sting out of only being in Melbourne for one might when the city deserves so much more!