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Well, hello from Dubai where I’m on an 18 hour layover. So I thought I’d pop up some photos of and information about a day trip my teenagers did in…

Here’s a little grabbag of info from our recent road trip out to Dubbo. Some reviews of our accommodation and thoughts on the trip itself. Hope you find something useful….

Call me old-fashioned. Call me the mother of three boys. Call me whatever you like! I know mothers often write about feeling brain dead at the playground… but not me.

Please welcome today’s guest poster, the lovely Robyn from MrsDPlus3. Robyn and her family have just celebrated three years of living here in Sydney. They have found lots of great spots…

We all love our children, but isn’t it sometimes refreshing to have an adults-only break? The Hunter Valley is a perfect easy getaway for Sydney mums and dads. I…

Welcome to a wee tour of a magnificent hotel that Paul and I stayed in the night before we joined the Bay of Fires Lodge Walk. Come along as we…

How lucky was I? Not only did I get to turn 50… some of my dearest friends would have loved to have had that chance…. but my birthday was spent…

That last post got too long, so I’ve decided to do a separate one showing some of the cafes, restaurants and activities we enjoyed at this hotel. We’ll start with…

Good morning! You’d better put the kettle on and make a cup of tea as this post is a bit of a long one. I went a bit mad with…
My family have just returned from an enjoyable 11-night holiday in Phuket: we were my husband and I, our two sons aged 10 and eight and our daughter aged…
You’re going to have to forgive me and bear with me on this one. I have developed a complete obsession with the resort hotel we stayed in during our first…
Here’s a bit of a round up post about our recent stopover in Dubai. Now that Qantas is using Dubai as a main hub, more of us Aussies will think…
Doesn’t your heart just sing when your little kids love the hotel kids club? Mine does absolutely. It’s not that I don’t want to have fun with my kids, just…
One of the absolute highlights of our recent stopover in Dubai was visiting the Wild Wadi Water Park.
I’m thrilled today to have a post sent over from Scotland by my younger sister, Morag. Mo, her husband and wee boys and my mum went to North Uist for…
When I was at uni, me and my pal Rosie always had a map on the wall. A ‘You Are Here’ arrow pointed to Oxford. ‘But You Wish You Were…
I’ve been flying in and out of Sydney Airport for a bit over 25 years and it’s something I’m still passionate about. The first time just blew me away; there…
Let me just get this out there straight up; this was the best kids’ club we’ve tried so far. My twins have experienced a few kids’ clubs in their nearly…

How very fitting that at the end of my 10 Weeks of Self Care on Saturday posts, I’m reporting in from Body and Soul, Four Colors in Four Days, a…










