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  • Clogged again!

    The journey home from Coffs Harbour took 7.5 hours for a distance of 550 kilometres. We left early and stopped at Big Oyster at Port Macquarie for some fresh oysters and prawns to take away, then at the centre of Port Macquarie for a bathroom break. That was it until we reached Sydney. The traffic…

  • Clogged in Coffs

    There’s no sleeping in. Not when you share a room with a kid who can’t stay in bed. The trendy shopping street is closed but for one cafe doing a roaring trade in coffee. Down a little further and across the road, in the rather dingy looking shopping centre, is the rather incongruous sounding K’Pane…

  • The wind river

    It is Sunday, market day, and the park in front of the jetty is busy with stalls. There is the usual assortment of junk and craft, jewellery and condiments. One row sells fresh fruit and vegetables. Blueberries are in season, replacing the bananas that this city is known for, though their farms are in decline.…

  • Dorrigo and Bellingen: Rainforests and Kayaks

    Saturday mornings are for sport. Tennis or karate. But it’s school holidays, so regular lessons are off, which means more time for other things. Like exercise. That really wasn’t the point, but it is good to something physical while on holidays. The first exercise was one of mind and coordination. Driving along the Waterfall Way…

  • Coffs Harbour, not harbouring coughs

    It’s school holidays, a long weekend and I need a break. Seriously need a break. I can feel myself becoming crankier with each new demand from work and life. Only problem is that I’m not sure that this is the holiday I need. Nevertheless, it is the one that has been thrust upon me.  With…

  • Flowers and fires

    The weather on Saturday was gorgeous and Alex was free of tennis, so we took a day trip up into the Blue Mountains. Rather than the motorway, we drove via Richmond to the Bells Line of Road, winding our way up past fruit stalls closed for winter and tiny hamlets selling apple pies and bric-a-brac.…

  • The city of recurring dreams

    There is a place I often dream about. Not exactly a place, because it has many forms, but I know its the same dream. It is away from the capital city, sometimes far, sometimes close. There is always a train, and that’s how I know it. The train goes through a quiet landscape. It’s grassy…

  • Farewell to the Queen of the Skies

    It had to be Brighton. Almost nineteen years ago, less than two months after those aircraft crashed into the Twin Towers in New York, we set out on our first flight on a Qantas Boeing 747, the Queen of the Skies. It was not our first flight on a 747, that came a few years…

  • War, democracy and a jumbo jet

    Thanks to COVID-19, Alex’s long awaited school camp to the Snowy Mountains and Canberra was cancelled. Fortunately we have already given him greater snow experiences both overseas and in the mountains, but he was really looking forward to tours of the National Capital, having studied Australian democracy during the past couple of terms. This time…

  • Whales and walls

    These past two weekends we have been out exploring in our backyard. Kurnell is one of my favourite little spots in Sydney, in no small part because it doesn’t feel like it is part of the city. A small township at the southern entrance to Botany Bay you pass through a break in suburbia to…