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

A brisk five kilometre walk around Lake Burley Griffin was the start to the day. Well, it did happen but maybe not at that brisk a pace. They call it the bridge to bridge walk which a lot of people were joining us in. To go around the entire lake is 22k so that is … More The Misogyny Speech – 6th February 2019

Back down memory lane today. Firstly we dropped around to an old school mate of Fraser’s, not close, but familiar name and good friends of Liv and Mark who we are staying with. The chap and his wife, Ray and Cinzia, are off on a two month holiday to Europe in May and June and … More Reminiscing one’s lost youth – 6th February 2019

We started the day with speaking to Simone and Joannie back in Calgary who were telling us it was -30c there and also that our hot water system was leaking. Fortunately, the cistern is in the basement and we have a sump pump down there, so should it decide to collapse, the water will be … More Canberra War Memorial – 4th February 2019

Today was put aside to tour the Old Parliament House and the New Parliament House. Having said that, the New Parliament House is now 30 years old and holding its own very well. It started with breakfast out on the back porch again, with our great view of pool and golf course and not to … More Day of Democracy – 3rd February 2019