My kids love this area for the great airport views. They can watch planes taking off and landing for hours. But there’s loads more here to enjoy, good playground and the biketrack and cafe making this a very family-friendly beach and baths. Kyeemagh Beach, Baths + Playground General Holmes Drive, Brighton-Le-Sands 2216 These baths are at […]
I’m thrilled to start up a whole new blog category. There are so many great places to stay in Sydney and I’m just the person to write about them. First up is a lovely boutique hotel on gorgeous Cremorne Point. When owner Jean-Claude Branch asked if I’d like to come and stay to check the […]
A huge thank you to blog reader Sonja Screpsis who shared her passion for Forster on the NSW North Coast with us here. What an encouragement to visit Foster she’s written here – so much info and it sounds so fab for families. Holidays with kids in Forster I have been holidaying in Forster for […]
When you have your first baby, you have no idea how important your local playgrounds are going to be in your life. But it’s when you have your second child that you realise how important it is to know where are all the fully-enclosed, fenced playgrounds are. Let’s raise a cheer for all the councils […]
Thrilling news from Melbourne’s City2Sea race – the course is dead flat! There’s no heartbreak and there are no hills, just a lovely flat 14km course. Melbourne’s answer to Sydney’s City to Surf was such a pleasure to do yesterday, helped along by perfect weather: sunny, warm and not too hot. And it was pouring […]
Gobsmackingly, it’s been over 25 years since I first flew into Sydney. Back then I was just a young scuba diver with a manual typewriter. And look at us all now! I’m an old ocean swimmer these days, lugging a laptop and surrounded by the boisterous bairns. Sydney hasn’t changed as much as we have […]
This is a terrific new book for new mums and dads and yes, I am biased. The author, Dr Melanie Strang, and I have corresponded over the past few years. Melanie gave us some lovely quotes for Beyond The Baby Blues, and I am a contributor (in a tiny way ) to this book. You see, […]
A family day trip can create some truly lasting memories. There are many wonderful family-friendly places to explore beyond the city fringe. Here are all of the posts on this blog, listed here for your to browse. Click through to read very detailed posts giving you all the information you need to plan a really […]
We’ve been having THE BEST COFFEE recently and it’s all thanks to my husband’s old flatmate from uni. Joop is a Dutch guy who survived sharing a flat with Paul and went on to work, like him, in the oil and gas business. Joop ended up working in South America where he married a local girl, Carmen. […]
Here’s a round-up post of all the things I’d share with you if we were gabbing at the school gate. Actually, we’d have to go for a coffee too… there’s quite a bit to say. My four children and I visited Cairns and Porth Douglas in the September/October spring school holidays. I had been to […]
Learning to ride a trike and then a bike is one of the great childhood rites of passage. Sydney has many wonderful outdoors learn-to-ride bike tracks suitable for children. And they’re all free! Here follows a list of the best bike tracks we have come across throughout Sydney. They’re listed here alphabetically by name of […]
If you’re going to Port Stephens for a weekend with the family, here’s our list of fantastic family fun. You see, there’s just too much to do at Port Stephens, where to start when just there for a couple of days? Well, we boldly suggest that these are the best things to do, certainly our […]
Now excuse me whilst I froth over with enthusiasm and exuberance. And even bossiness. You see, the sport of cricket has been so very beneficial to my three boys over the years. And I’m very grateful. So I’m here to tell you parents of little ones that cricket is the best summer sport of ‘em all. […]
Aargh, I’m such an idiot!! After a lovely weekend at Jervis Bay, Minnie the Minx and I drove back to Sydney last night… fuming! Which is when this golden rule for beach house weekends struck me – and hard. Never make plans for a Monday morning. They mean you have to come home. This could […]
