Narawntapu National Park and Pademelons
Our very gracious and helpful hostess at Hawthorn Villa brought us a hefty pile of brochures and guides and then suggested we would enjoy a trip about an hour north of here to the Park with the...
March 2006
Launceston & Low Head
Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania and that is where we went today. We needed to rent the car for an extra day and then also decided we might as well book the other two time periods as...
The Great Western Tiers
After a very restful and rather long sleep (almost 12 hours) we ventured off down the highway (day two on the left side of the road is less nervy than day one) on our way to see some caves. In the end we...
Tasmania at last
This trip has been in the planning for quite some time and it is now interesting to finally be here. Odd that this started with an accidental happening across the Discover Tasmania website. Intriguing...
Zen shorts
Did you know I catalogue books? Here that means I have my hands on about 100 books a day, or at least most days. Because I catalogue for 28 schools, there are repeats and boring books, and there are a...
Great quote
"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work" - Benjamin Franklin
I just had to share this, it resonates with me!
Almost off and away
Less than two weeks to go! As I've noted elsewhere, we have been planning this trip for a while. I think half the adventure of travelling someplace new is finding out lots of things about the place. In...
Curried Split Pea and Spinach Soup
We recently joined the Alpine Bakery' Produce Club. Each week we drop by the bakery and pick up a very full brown paper bag of fruits and vegetables ... all organically grown. With our produce we get a...
Corn Chowder
I've made this several times now, and I love it. Creamy without using fat or flour! 5 cups potatoes, peeled and chopped 4 cups water Put this into your medium size soup pot and cook until potatoes...
Winter blah blah blah
Where does the time go? This winter hasn't been blah for all I used that word in my title ... well, maybe a few days were rather grey, but we have been quite busy. Besides work, walking the Os, cooking...