“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 [...]
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. [...]
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: [...]
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?! [...]
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 get [...]
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 property [...]
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, [...]
So Kelly’s parents are here to visit us, and we are delighted to have our first visitors from home join us in our lives abroad. We are proudly showing off our Australian digs, friends, and landscapes to them. Bracken the kangaroo and Poppy the wombat (both rescued animals that are being rehabilitated to the wild) [...]
Here are my public rants for the last two weeks. I am preparing for some family visiting for the last half of November (which is a big deal when family=Canada and home=Australia!), so I imagine my online life will get pretty quiet for a while. I hope I don’t go into withdrawal, what with an [...]
Your dog just died. “She’ll be right, mate,” is the sympathetic response of your Australian friend. Climate change is upon us. The whole country, and in particular the state of Victoria has endured over a decade of drought. “She’ll be right, mate,” replies an Aussie as they seem to shrug off an evident problem. You [...]
