It hasn’t rained here like usual this summer. Rainfall here can be variable, but we finished summer with a total of 30% of our average rainfall. Which is also a warning for these photos – the grass is brown and dry. It’s not picturesque. But that is our normal at the moment and will be… Continue reading Hardings Paddock – Ipswich
Our latest camping trip was to Sandy Creek Campin’ near Kilcoy. This was a quiet campsite, even in school holidays. We went with a group of people and there was lots of space for us to camp near each other. We arrived on Saturday, although a lot of our group got there on Friday. On Sunday morning… Continue reading Sandy Creek Campin’
Photo by IMAMA LAVI on Pexels.com So. 2018. It’s taken me a bit of thinking to work out how to summarise this year. On its very basic paper level, this probably wasn’t a very good year for us. Both adults in the house lost their jobs (one expected, one completely without warning), both kiddos had… Continue reading Thank you 2018
This is something that I shared at work this week and a few people found it interesting/helpful so you might too. We were talking about Christmas and what presents Santa brings. One of my children is very scientific minded and asks questions about everything. Endless questions. All the questions. Questions three levels deeper than you’d think… Continue reading Building the Santa magic
I feel like I’ve written this before, but I can’t find the blog post, so here we go again. Forgive me if this sounds familiar. Recently we decided to go into Southbank for a swim. We had intended to go to the beach pool and spend most of our time there, but what happened is… Continue reading Southbank Parklands water play
This is a quick round up of what I tried to keep the kids occupied with during the drive up to Fraser Island (K’Gari), what I thought would work and what didn’t work. First up: ipads combined with these $10 car headrest tablet holders from Kmart. Our oldest has a car seat with speakers build in,… Continue reading Fraser Island: the car trip with kids
We were leaving Eli Creek when I looked at the map and realised that we hadn’t done a visit to the Maheno. It is quite close to Eli Creek, and we wanted to check out The Cathedrals camping group for future trip research, so we headed up for a quick visit to the Maheno. We… Continue reading Fraser Island: The Maheno
