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    Someone Was Missing…
  • Spicy Chickpea and Zesty Avocado Salad (A Match Made in Heaven)

    Spicy Chickpea and Zesty Avocado Salad (A Match Made in Heaven)
  • Book the Weekend

    Book the Weekend
  • On #blogging and ‘doing social’…

    On #blogging and ‘doing social’…
  • Heartbreak in the North

    Heartbreak in the North

Someone Was Missing…

This time last year, we were somewhat rudderless. Matt was working an awful lot, often away, I was deep in the throes of raising a three and a one year old, a bit different to the two year old and baby phase, but in a lot of ways more juggling than ever before. We were by no means unhappy with our lot in life: two healthy and happy girls, a fulfilling career for Matt offering opportunity and challenge, a village of friends and family around us. Yet something was missing. We reassessed. It was time for the next step, inevitable and ever-looming. The time was nigh. We decided that the change which we could feel a'brewing was for Matt to leave his off-farm job and return to the family farming business by the end of the year. Always the plan, but now it was really The Plan, reality versus pipe-dream-on-the-horizon are two very different things. We moved forward, optimistic and buoyed by the goals which lay ahead, and planned to travel around Australia for four months before the ...

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Someone Was Missing…

This time last year, we were somewhat rudderless. Matt was working an awful lot, often away, I was deep in the throes of raising a three and a one year old, a bit different to the two year old and baby phase, but in a lot of ways more juggling than ever before. We were by no means unhappy with our ...

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Spicy Chickpea and Zesty Avocado Salad (A Match Made in Heaven)

Over Easter when we were away with my family, my sister made a delicious salad to accompany our Good Friday fish feast. The perfect combination of crunchy baked chickpeas with creamy avocados, crisp cucumber and capsicum with a lime juice zing and chilli flakes to boot. I shared a photo of the ...

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Book the Weekend

About six months ago, Beth documented her weekend away with a group of girlfriends. I thought "oh that looks nice... but far too hard to organise everyone's schedules and families and lives and work and and and..." I tagged a few girlfriends in Beth's Facebook post about "booking the weekend" - ...

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On #blogging and ‘doing social’…

Once upon a time (not so long ago, in about 2009, 'only' ten years ago) there was a girl... A girl fresh out of a photography university degree, who was burnt out and didn't really want to pick up a camera, who had followed her heart to rural Victoria, to a beef property in a small community where ...

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Heartbreak in the North

As a story teller, communicator and weaver of words about our farming life, it would be remiss of me to not post something about the recent rain event in the north-west of Queensland. I have already touched on it over on my Facebook page and in my Instagram stories, but thought a blog post to cover ...

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Pulling The Magic Out Of The Madness

Our house is very quiet at the moment. Over the weekend we had our best mates here, all the way from the dry and dusty Mallee (to dry and dusty and smoke hazed Gippsland...) It is always such a mission to visit each other, being four or five hour drive and with very small people thrown in the ...

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Coming Home To Roost

In early 2014 we made a big decision for our little yet-to-even-be family. At the time we were living and working in the sandy hills of the Limestone Coast in South Australia, on a sheep and cattle property in a big old limestone farmhouse near Padthaway. We were an hour to town and I was ...

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2018, onwards…

Well, that didn't exactly go to plan. I feel like I am actually in one of those meme's of a toddler trying to ice-skate, or pick-up tennis balls one at a time while another one bounces to the ground, or plummeting head first down a water slide hitting both sides like a game of human pinball. I had ...

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And so that was Christmas, 2018…

This year's Christmas was always going to be a bit of a doozy with my mum in hospital - the old chestnut of trying to be everywhere, to everyone, all at once. But we did it! Gosh darn it we did it. I probably gained seventy new grey hairs (at least!) but, we did it. Exhale... Christmas Eve and ...

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Nan’s Magic Pudding – Christmas Love in a Bowl

This year, as my mum is in hospital and unable to make the pudding, the task has fallen to me... *Cue dramatic DA DA DA DAAAA* No pressure! The recipe is my Nan's (actually my Dad's mother), and has been made every year for Christmas since goodness knows when...we are going to visit 96 ...

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All I Want For Christmas (The 2018 Gift Guide)

Given our earlier than anticipated arrival home, I am feeling slightly organised about Christmas...maybe. Only in comparison to how unorganised I would be feeling if we didn't get home until now, as planned, so I'm working off a low base point really! As usual, the girls really want for nothing, so ...

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Simple, But Effective, Embroidery Hoop Advent Calendar

In the lead up to Christmas I wanted to celebrate Advent with the girls this year - the countdown to the big day can be quite overwhelming and seem like a dot on the horizon when you're four and two! Hopefully counting down the days will not only extend the joy of the season, but get their little ...

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News in Brief – The November ’18 Edition

Goodness, where to begin...?! As I've shared on Instagram - we are home. Safe and sound, right where we need to be, albeit a whole lot earlier and more rushed than intended (4500km over five days will make you feel alive - ai yi ai), but that is perhaps a story for another day. I am, as ...

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Into the Alice, Up the Tanami…

When we were at Uluru, Matt had booked the car into a mechanic at Alice Springs - so we had a deadline to get to town. The last day of exploring the West Mac’s was going to be a bit brief to make our deadline into Alice by the next day - first stop though was Glen Helen Gorge, just a skip across the ...

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Of Kings, Rock Wallabies and Lutherans in the West Mac’s…

From Uluru, our next destination of Kings Canyon was ‘just up the road’ in outback terms (ie. a few hundred kilometres). We had both been to Kings Canyon on our 2003 school central Australia trip, but I remember it being a highlight and we were keen to do the canyon rim walk with the girls - a real ...

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Truly Awesome: Uluru and Kata Tjuta

It was always going to be a big haul from Chambers Pillar into Uluru (about 400km, a lot on gravel) so we pulled up stumps about 100kms from Yulara at a roadside camp - which actually turned out to be quite nice once we popped over the sand hill... We had got a waft of reception (the first ...

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A desert oasis, the exact red centre, and climbing the pillar…

We bumped into Dalhousie Springs on dark, not an ideal time to find a campsite as we could hardly make out where the designated camping area was! We found a spot and Matt did a very quick set up while I got dinner on the go for two tired and weary little campers (and the big campers!) In the morning ...

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The majesty of the Flinders Ranges, and then up the Oodnadatta track we go…

As I wanted to take photos in the late afternoon light of Alyce and her family, we opted to stay two nights at Merna Mora, giving us a day to explore one of the station’s 4WD tracks available to visitors. On our Flinders Ranges trip a few years ago I had wanted to stay at Merna Mora (I’m assuming on ...

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