Stop what you’re doing! Yes, you there, the one searching for new led taillights because I KNOW you are going to want to know about this. The Chinese Garden of Friendship is one of my favourite places to visit at Darling Harbour. We haven’t been up there for a while so since it’s Darling Harbour’s 21st anniversary, I’m thinking a visit is due. ... Read More

It was so bizarre waking up to this yesterday! I have never seen anything like this before. Apparently a major dust storm had swept through during the night. I remember waking waking up at some ungodly hour, hearing what I thought was hail but now I think it was actually rocks and debris being swept around.   I grabbed my camera and headed down to the lake. It ... Read More

OMG! I saw the coolest thing today while we were at Parramatta Park. We were looking for somewhere to sit to eat our lunch when Bill said “they look like bats!” I looked up to see this:    We learned that it was a grey-headed flying fox camp. There would have been thousands of them right along the river’s edge! You should have heard the noise ... Read More

William, Tiesha, Annabelle and I went up to Mt Keira lookout. We were admiring the gorgeous view when I looked down and saw this lock attached to the safety fence. It says “Jo & Ev, Locked in love forever, 16 – 3 – 2007”. How sweet is that! There’s actually a few padlocks there with similar sentiments. Apparently when the padlock is locked on the fence, the couple throw the ... Read More

William, Madeline (and her friend), Giorgia, Annabelle and I went to the zoo with my sister and niece, and my girlfriend and her two kids. Unfortunately Bill and Tiesha couldn’t join us because of other commitments. It was an early start because we thought we’d do the whole tourist thing and catch a train to Circular Quay and then a ferry across to Taronga. ... Read More

I’ve never really paid much attention to the birds on our walk along the lake until I started taking my camera with me. At first only gulls and these funny looking birds that are always sunning themselves on the rocks caught my eye but lately we’ve seen some cute birds….   Technorati Tags: bird watching,photos,birds ... Read More

A couple of weeks ago my friend told me that while she was checking out the photos that she took on our visit to Mt Keira, she was surprised to see a camera looking right at her in one of the photos. It was in an old tree stump that was lying on the ground. I checked my photos to see if I had photographed the same log ... Read More

Last year, it was the Premier’s Reading Challenge. This year, Giorgia has brought home a note telling us all about the Premier’s Adventure Challenge which is all about encouraging kids to visit art galleries and museums. Personally I think this is really exciting because I love visiting galleries and museums. Giorgia thinks it might be fun but when I mentioned making it a family outing the older kids looked ... Read More

I love just getting in the car and going for a drive without actually knowing what our destination will be. A couple days ago, Bill, Giorgia, Annabelle and I went for a drive up north. We drove up the coastal road and stopped at Bald Hill, Stanwell Tops, a popular place for hang gliders. From the top we had a great view of the coast, the ocean and ... Read More

I have to say that every time my friend Scarlett and I go on an excursion, it always turns out to be an adventure. Today we decided to visit the Rhododendron Gardens in Mt Pleasant, with her son and one of my girls, Giorgia. What started as a pleasant experience turned into a traumatic, nightmare-inducing one…for me.We started at the duck pond and walked around the gardens… ... Read More