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A bit of culture never hurt anyone…

As an early Christmas gift, my mum shouted me a couple of tickets to the final performance of The Nutcracker by Queensland Ballet. This was my first time to a ballet and I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Sure I had been to Swan Lake on Ice earlier this year and I enjoyed that, [...]

Everything has its use….even green bowls!

I think it was around this time last year that Leigh had the great idea of starting the AFW 365 challenge. The idea was that we would each try to take a photo a day of various things and post them to a group on Flickr. We started off well…..I lasted about a month before [...]

Plants that never say die

Virtually everything on our block is a native plant of some variety but I do have some ornamentals in pots in the patio and out the front of my house. The frangipani and two happy plants out the front are kicking along quite nicely with their weekly dousing with recycled water but I have had [...]

Wanted: canine labourers for medium-sized residential project

Preferably with four legs, plenty of stamina, huge paws and a fondness for bones and roo meat! As you can see, site works has already commenced but it has come to a standstill due to the human crew currently being on strike.

The perpetual student graduates again….and again…

Yes that would be me. Not content with two undergraduate degrees, I’ve gone and got myself a few more letters to add to the end of my name. I can just imagine my headstone reading “here lies Kay…..exhausted physically, stimulated mentally and in debt up to her eyeballs in student fees” followed by a whole [...]

Do you ever have days like this??

I’m definitely having one of those days today. My head hurts, I had really crappy sleep today and I have to go back and play some more tonight. I think my “happy face” is going to be pretty much the same as this one Thank god for I Can Has Cheezburger?….it really puts a [...]

“Moving to the country, gonna eat me a lot of peaches…”

Well I would have eaten peaches if the king parrots hadn’t gotten to them first.
Not content with having spent four days last week in the middle of nowhere, I had to go do it again for a night. Only this time, in the middle of nowhere somewhere south-westish of Ipswich in a place [...]

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