But it’s not really turkey time is it. Since Christmas I have had a 7.5kg (13 stone), free-range turkey in my freezer and while delighting in how I was able to purchase it at cost price, it’s actually started to annoy me because it was taking up 85% of my freezer space. I was intending […]
Archives for February 2015
SoCal, Neutral Bay
February 24, 2015 By 38 Comments
Since the beginning of this year, Alfie has let us know that for his birthday he would like to go to SoCal, a Mexican restaurant with a name that is short for ‘So Californian’. He had been there just once before when Arabella took him out for lunch one day and ever since has declared […]
A Medical Emergency
February 23, 2015 By 58 Comments
My life has been such a whirlwind I’ve barely had time for any on-line presence. It always seems that just when you think the week ahead is looking like plain-sailing and you might actually have the chance to tackle the overdue tax reports the accountant has been asking for since October, that another crisis rears […]
Pandanus Bay Waterfront Apartments, Vanuatu
February 18, 2015 By 37 Comments
We planned on flying out of Santo early in the morning so that 50-minutes later we would be in Port Vila and all set for a day of sightseeing before heading back to Sydney the following morning. Alas, we had a five-hour delayed flight that robbed us of any sightseeing opportunities. However, I’m not sure […]
Grecian Blue, Mosman
February 17, 2015 By 31 Comments
After all the excitement of the swimming carnival we felt it was only appropriate to take the little guy out for dinner to celebrate. Another motivating factor was that when I unpacked his swimming bag I found his entire lunch and all snacks completely intact. He’d swum eight swimming races on nothing but a fried egg […]
The Swimming Carnival
February 13, 2015 By 40 Comments
My little guy has a love/hate relationship with swimming. The ‘love’ part is that he’s a very natural swimmer with a beautiful swimming style as mentioned in this contact form and he has the potential to be a very good swimmer. The ‘hate’ part is that he’d really rather not swim. Up until yesterday, that is. […]
A Trip to Hospital
February 12, 2015 By 53 Comments
Miss Arabella has always had a mouth full of drama. In primary school she had an expander and then braces followed by an operation to remove a ‘super-numery’. In high school she had braces but the result wasn’t good so she then had an extraction to create some necessary room and then braces for another […]
Champagne Bay, Santo, Vanuatu
February 11, 2015 By 17 Comments
When tourists come to Santo, the one place they want to go is Champagne Bay. Just a 40-minute drive from Luganville it is arguably one of the prettiest beaches in the world. It has all those ingredients everyone is looking for; warm turquoise waters, white sand, tropical fish, a coral reef, together with that feeling […]
Diving the SS President Coolidge
February 10, 2015 By 17 Comments
Espiritu Santo played an enormously significant role during WWII yet somehow it seems its role was very much swept under the rug and only now is the island becoming known for its contribution to the Allied Forces. As mentioned in my post on Million Dollar Point, Santo was the USA’s largest army base during WWII. […]
Santo Horse Adventures, Vanuatu
February 9, 2015 By 26 Comments
There’s something about seeing a brochure or an ad on TV where there are people riding horses through waist-deep water on the beach that makes you feel that would be one of the best experiences in the world. When we went to Espiritu Santo we weren’t sure if you could ride horses but we quickly […]
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