One of Pat and Johns grandsons Jack, stayed over night as he wanted to go on the Park Run in the morning as his grand parents live just down the road from where they start. Fraser did a park run back in Busselton in WA with friends Jen and Al. It is five kilometres and … More More Catchup – 16th February 2019

We lived in Bathurst 1987 to late 1988 where Fraser managed a slate quarry. This was his first job after leaving Shay Gap in Western Australia and we were both keen to get back to the eastern states. We were only in Bathurst about 18 months and then unfortunately the slate quarry went bust. There … More Over the Blue Mountains to Bathurst – 15th February 2019

Our plan today was to go and see if our first ever real estate purchase was still standing and to walk down Memory Lane. The Three Amigos set off by bus into the city and then swapped to a train out to the famous Bondi Junction. To get to Bondi Beach you need to get … More Going Back to the Beginning- 14th February 2019

Good day to get cracking and see the sights of Sydney as the temperature was only meant to climb to 25c today. On went the walking shoes and out the door we three went. First port of call after a ten minute walk was the ferry landing of Abbotsford. They have certainly smarted the jetty’s … More Tommy, Tabitha and Darryl the Tourists – 13th February 2019

How does 37c sound for trapsing around a city –  not good – well that is what we thought. We spent the day hanging around the house in air conditioning with only Darryl. Sue still works full time as a teacher and thoroughly enjoys it. We didn’t go out until 5.20pm where we had a … More Hot, hot, hot – 12th February 2019

Needed to accomplish a few chores today so nothing great to report. First call of the day was to head over the bridge to the suburb of St Leonards. This took a bus into town and then a train. Fantastic transport network here. About 23 years ago we bought an apartment in St Leonard’s which … More Domestic Day – 11th February 2019

So it was a two and a half hour trip up the highway from Nowra to Sydney negotiating our way through all the traffic. For Sunday midday it wasn’t really that bad on the roads but we have definitely noticed an increase in the volume of the traffic since we lived here back between late … More Sydney Bound – 10th February 2019

There has been a plethora of blog postings today as up at Weemilah we had no internet due to a severed cable courtesy of a wombat!!! Yeap, honest!!! So catch up time. After a beautiful breakfast we headed out to the view over the Kangaroo Valley for a photo op and create a wonderful but … More HMAS Creswell – 9th February 2019

After a little sleep in, we walked to the main house from our granny flat to see what plans were afoot for the day. We walked in to find just Nigel there who told us that Ali and her mum Jan had gone into town. Jan is in her early 80’s and still plays tennis … More While the Cats Away, the Mice Did Play, Weemila – 8th February 2019

So it was farewell to Canberra after a wonderful stay with Liv and Mark but not before Fras climbed up Red Hill and went for a walk around the golf course following all the kangaroos. We left the city via the swimming pool in the centre of the city where we felt we needed to … More Canberra to Weemila – 7th February 2019