Heavens! It’s Hump Day!

I got out of bed so early that it hurt. It hurt making coffee, it hurt dragging a brush through my hair (not just because it was a complete and total birds nest) and it hurt driving to the beach. It stopped hurting when I got out of the car and watched the darkness...

Photo A Day April – Week One

I am back doing Photo A Day for April as FatMumSlim’s chart looked interesting. I like the prompts both for the photographs and they give me some inspiration for blogs as well – usually more personal blogs that are again starting to fill up my Drafts...

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...

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...