by Hugh and Justine | Aug 20, 2023
My whole life, if anyone ever said, “Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news?”, I would ALWAYS choose to hear the bad news first so that I could end with the good news. So I’m doing the same with you, dear readers – I’m starting...
by Hugh and Justine | Aug 13, 2023
Words can not express how excited we were on Friday just before 10am when the bright orange Allied moving truck pulled up in front of our house! It was honestly almost surreal. Having been without belongings in our Stoney Creek house for 2 weeks, then in an Airbnb for...
by Hugh and Justine | Aug 6, 2023
The “tip” is Aussie for the “dump” – and curiously, it is a fun place! How can it not be when this is the entrance: The dinosaurs were made out of material from the tip – very cool, and the signs next to the dinosaur display are...
by Hugh and Justine | Jul 30, 2023
We finally have an update on the shipping container. Not nearly as twisted a plot as The Shipping News, I’m afraid. You may recall that last week I commented on watching a crow eating. This week it is unfortunately about me eating crow. Why? Well, after all my...
by Hugh and Justine | Jul 23, 2023
Last night we were out for dinner with a bunch of the pickleballers from this weekend’s Queensland Pickleball Tour event (more on this later) and our friend Lachlan asked us what were the biggest cultural differences we had noticed between Australia and Canada....