My family and I have just gotten home from our holiday. We visited a town on our holidays that I spent a lot of time in as a kid. I pointed out different places and told them stories about what it was like when I was a kid. I told …
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 …
Genealogy is a fast growing field of interest to many people all over the world. When you don’t have the genealogy bug it can be hard to figure what your loved one would find the most pleasure to receive. I have put together a list of my favourite genealogy related …
My Kitchen Rules is advertising their show for 2015 and the drawcard is a Chris Hemsworth’s cousin, Rob. Rob Hemsworth is an oyster farmer from Victoria and out of all the Hemsworth brothers he does look a lot like Chris. Chris has done a promo where he says “I didn’t …
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 …
Aunty Dot, she has worked tirelessly on the family genealogy for years and no-one gives her any credit. She tries to talk to the family about her discoveries and wonderful stories she has found but doesn’t get very far. She thinks to herself “If only she had someone like Jack 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 …
