Top five gifts for genealogy, should save your loved ones time and money. Because I don’t know about you but I find that most of my Christmas preparations involves hours of walking around the shopping centre trying to find the “perfect” gift. I always wish I knew what the avid …
Happy Australia Day!! On Monday my brother in law became an Australian citizen. Another convert from dark old England, joining the lucky country. I explained to my six year old that we celebrate Australia Day to mark the landing of the first fleet but many people have come to settle …
The best New Year’s Eve I ever had was on a boat sitting in the Thames. We had a great dinner, great DJ who actually took requests for Aussie singers and great company. It was all topped off with a open top deck that we all moved to when midnight …
I recently was Face booked a picture of Santa giving presents in shorts. Very funny and very Australian. “Santa wears shorts” and “Six white Boomers” songs are very popular with our kids. Also very popular is spotting some reindeer that turn up only at Christmas time down the road from …
Apparently some people just don’t like Christmas cards or letters. Are they crazy? It’s the only time in the year I can let my kids go crazy with the glue stick and a the glitter and send something to the family that they may hang up for a at least …
Santa arrived at our local shopping centre last weekend. He seems to get there earlier every year! Part of our family history will be looking back over the Christmas photos with Santa. It’s a tradition to sit down with him and get a picture every year since our girls have …
Remembrance Day is my mother in law’s birthday. It’s always marked in our calendar, so I don’t miss it. I remember her birthday and then I remember to mark eleven o’clock. On the eleventh day of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour all the guns fell silent on the …
Tips for Melbourne Cup Barrier 11 is the luckiest barrier and barrier 18 is the unluckiest, no-one has ever won from barrier 18. On average the favourite wins the Melbourne cup every five years. (This means that in the hundred and fifty three years of the race running there have …
Halloween. I love it. Apart from Christmas it’s my favourite celebration. I have celebrated it since having my kids. I wish I would have known about it when I was a kid and I would have walked around the neighbourhood in one of my mum’s sheets asking for lollies! Mistakenly, …
