by Hugh and Justine | Feb 11, 2024
Well, it was a light week activity-wise as I was a bit overloaded with work this week, so I’ll use this opportunity to catch up on sharing some more interesting tidbits we’ve learned about Australia since arriving. NOTE: I have linked a song below that...
by Hugh and Justine | Feb 9, 2024
Hi everyone, I posted this blog on Sunday: It’s the Dew Point!! | Hugh and Justine Down Under Unfortunately, it seems that the new mail sending service didn’t send it out. We’ve made some additional changes and I think it should now be working – am...
by Hugh and Justine | Feb 4, 2024
I’ve been quite sure for awhile now that my phone is listening to me and reporting everything to Google and Facebook. Now I’m also thinking my laptop is reading my blog and reporting it to major news outlets. Last Sunday I wrote about the mystery of...
by Hugh and Justine | Jan 28, 2024
January 26 is Australia Day. There is a lot of angst about this date because it represents the day in 1788 when Great Britain’s flag was raised in Sydney Harbour, thereby paying no respect to the Indigenous people who had lived here for millennia. As a newcomer...
by Hugh and Justine | Jan 21, 2024
To celebrate Hugh’s birthday this week, we flew to Melbourne to watch tennis at the Australian Open. Unlike any time we’d watched it on TV, where it always seemed to be stifling hot, this year it was COLD! The daytime highs were 18-20C and the overnight...