Happy new year! Good riddance to 2013 and roll on 2014, says I. We celebrated with the Melrose clan (the Scots) by taking a picnic down to Bicentennial Park for the fireworks display — it’s the park right near our house, so not too far to go and we had a good view of the fireworks from both the …

I’ve been eating (and drinking!) anything and everything I can find this past month or two, with the intention — likely shared by many people around this time of year — to get back to training when the new year rolls by. And training needs a purpose, right? So tonight I’ve been searching the …

I won something! A week or so ago I saw a competition on The Livingroom (I think it was — we weren’t actually watching, just surfing for something to watch). Typical “25 words or less” with a website under tenplay — or maybe I just went to the site looking for a way to win an Xbox One? Whatever the …

This morning, before the rain, we got out into our courtyard and went King Kong on the straggly and overgrown vines and hedge — if you look at the greenery at the background of the photos, that’s just the offcuts: they take up the entire bottom tier of the yard.Still more to do (scrubbing the …

Hi all, I’d somehow missed the visit to Kryal Castle, but it looks like you had heaps of fun!! Been a while since we went, and we will definitely have to take Jules along next time we’re down that way. This weekend hasn’t been much fun for us — we’re all sick (Jules least of all, but I suspect it’s …

There haven’t been a whole lot of posts from me of late (where “late” translates to basically the last three years or so), and this afternoon I’ve been wondering about why that is. Sure, I’ve been busy with work, and Jules, and moving (twice!), and life — but is that a sufficiently high-truth …