Christmas Day In Brisbane: Presents, Pool And A Proper Aussie Christmas Swim
Christmas morning started exactly how Christmas morning should start: far too early, with excited children and wrapping paper everywhere. The girls came…
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🌲 Christmas Eve, The Great Light Hunt
Christmas Eve finished with one of the best bits of the whole Australian Christmas build-up: the traditional light drive. We followed a…
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Westfield North Lakes and a last-minute Santa surprise
Today was Christmas shopping, part two at Westfield North Lakes. With the big Brisbane Westfield done the day before, this one felt…
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Today was a slow, sunny Brisbane day
I am very grateful for a pool. We are incredibly lucky to have a house with a pool for Christmas, so while…
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Gingerbread, Aussie Jingle Bells And Carols At The Races 🎄
Today felt like Christmas had properly arrived in Brisbane. We started the morning in full sugar-fuelled chaos, building a gingerbread house at…
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Crikey, what a day – Australia Zoo with kids
The day after our big Brisbane shopping mission we pointed the car north and headed for one place we’d all been secretly…
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Landing In Brisbane – Straight Into The Christmas Rush
Brisbane welcomed us with heat, palm trees and… Christmas shopping. With the big day fast approaching we didn’t ease in gently. On…
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Goodbye Mansfield, Hello Brisbane
Our last day in Mansfield was deliberately slow. We spent the morning packing up the house, doing the usual dance of hunting…
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Ali’s Mountain Adventure – Four Hours On The High Ropes
While the girls and I were having our slow Mansfield day, Ali finally got her big Mount Buller high ropes adventure. The…
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🎿 Chasing Snow At Mount Buller
The day after our High Country hike we weren’t quite done with the mountains, so we pointed the car up towards Mount…
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⛰️ Gnomes, Mountain Views And A Very Friendly Parrot – Mansfield Adventures
Mansfield turned out to be a lot more adventurous than we expected. On the way up into the High Country we passed…
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🎄 Carols, Pizza And A 20-Second Storm In Mansfield
The next day we packed up again and headed to our next house sit near Mansfield, trading desert roads for green hills…
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