Digging in the Dirt

With the house came a tiny garden and a tinier front patch. The front patch looked a bit sad and devoid of any Frangipani tree (There seems to be an unwritten rule that every house on the street needs to have one). Going against our inborn desire to follow the rules, we decided instead to … Continue reading

Closing the Loop

In the past ten years of us living here we have been slowly filling up our map of Australia. But there was always this top left corner that was too far away and too remote to do in a single short holiday. For a while now we have been planning on maybe doing it in … Continue reading

No longer cold

The official end to our 2015 heating season was on the 30th of August. While we all thought that the worst was over, the weather god had other plans and showered us with 10 days of bloody miserable and stormy weather resulting in our internal apartment temperature to plummet below the 17 degree mark. Reluctant … Continue reading