Happy Holidays everybody! Christmas and New Years have seen us on a social whirlwind tour, enjoying the friendship and company of so many of the warm and welcoming Aussies we have met thus far in our journey.
And believe it or not, in there, I found some time to get a few more articles published too! [...]
Regular readers of this blog are of course familiar with our good friend Bracken, the kangaroo. Well, after six months of our living here, he is still a staple in our diet of Australian culture. I must admit that the novelty has largely worn off; with the weather getting increasingly sunnier and warmer I would [...]
“You must have a little veggie patch at your place, don’t you? Everybody does,” said one Aussie fellow to me when speaking about the Australian agriculture industry. “Chuck just about anything in the ground, it grows here,” were his wise words to me that day.
As it happened, I had indeed just planted some seedlings in [...]
Having grown up in Canada, the Christmas season is usually accompanied by a few key ingredients:
1) Decorations Galore
2) Sales and Shopping Frenzies
3) Snow
Now I must note that had I not grown up in a big metropolitan area, maybe the advent of decorations galore and harrowing shopping frenzies would be less pronounced. However snow (or at [...]
Due to having a number of interesting irons in the fire that is my writing career, I have not been as active as in recent weeks and months. But stay tuned…there is lots of good stuff to come. Please enjoy this selection of recently published articles, by yours truly.
WISE BREAD
Surviving the Holiday Season: Entertaining (and [...]
Boy, if you’re not Australian (and heck – maybe even if you are), this title will get you thinking. “There’s a Rosella on my Head at Wilson’s Prom”. First off, who the heck is Wilson, why am I at his prom, what on earth is a rosella, and why is it on my freaking head?!
Never [...]
So I was recently contacted by Beth at Wanderlust and Lipstick, a fellow traveling-nomadic-writer (but one-up on me as she has a best-selling book and I don’t…yet). She alerted me to a project that she and a few dozen other travel bloggers are working on that sounds absolutely fabulous. Although I was unable to [...]
After meeting Bracken our horny and insatiable kangaroo, and feeding the beautiful king parrots here at Kingbilli, we knew we were in the perfect place to become acquainted with native Australian wildlife in ways that most people – even Australians – don’t have a chance to. Such are the benefits of living on a [...]
For the last two weeks we have been so lucky to have Kelly’s parents visiting from Vancouver Island. The 35 hour journey here was a little tough, but they rallied well to enjoy the (rainy-but-nice) weather and see some sights with us. Please look forward to some updates about our adventures shortly.
In the meantime, [...]
