Posted in Uncategorized, tagged crayfish, yabbies on Thursday, 24 April, 2008 | No Comments »
You may or may not know that I’m a vegetarian. I just don’t enjoy the taste of meat. I also don’t enjoy the taste of fish or seafood of any kind. So when my husband decided - for reasons I can’t yet work out - to take the girls to our dam for a spot [...]
Posted in gardening on Wednesday, 9 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m not a garden person. I like to look at gardens. I even like to sit in them. But I do not do gardens! Why then, we chose to live in a place that is surrounded by grass, trees and plants of every description, I still do not know.
I’ve had my moments of inspiration. Unfortunately, [...]
Posted in gardening, tagged garden on Thursday, 7 February, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I had my day all planned. I should have stuck to it. My plan was to concentrate on getting the inside of the house all clean and tidy. That was enough. I could handle that.
Well today, as I stood by the kitchen window and contemplated which room I should begin with, I looked out into [...]
Posted in Jane Austen, movies, tagged The Jane Austen Book Club on Friday, 1 February, 2008 | No Comments »
So I went to see “The Jane Austen Book Club” last night. Having read the novel again recently, I was eager to see how it adapted to film. Would the characters be how I’d imagined them? How would they handle the characters telling stories from their past? Would I end up loving the characters on [...]
Posted in Tasmania, holidays on Wednesday, 23 January, 2008 | No Comments »
Today was our last day in Swansea, so we packed up our stuff early and headed back to Devonport for one day’s sight-seeing before jumping back onto the Spirit of Tasmania.
First stop - the Devonport Maritime Museum. As a ship lover, I’d been looking forward to this for the entire trip. Everyone else, I think, [...]
Posted in Tasmania, Uncategorized on Tuesday, 22 January, 2008 | No Comments »
The next day, we decided to go and see the infamous “Spikey Bridge”, a bridge said to have been built by convicts in about 1841. It has lots of amazing looking spikey stones and rocks on top of it. No-one seems to really know why the spikes are there, but it’s certainly something you don’t [...]
Posted in Tasmania, beer, holidays on Saturday, 12 January, 2008 | No Comments »
One thing we were hugely keen to see in Launceston, was the Boag’s Beer Factory. Anyone worth their hops and barley knows that Boag’s Beer is well-established in Tasmania. You can’t stagger down any street without seeing a Boag’s Draught, or Boag’s Lager or some such sign as large as day, staring you right in the [...]
Posted in television on Tuesday, 18 December, 2007 | No Comments »
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of those mothers who sit their children in front of the TV all day long. I confess I do sometimes strongly encourage them to move in the general direction of the TV, which coincidentally just happens to be already switched on and tuned to the kid’s channel, at just [...]
