by Hugh and Justine | Mar 24, 2024
This was a winning week for the retiree in the house! Although Hugh didn’t have the best of golf games on Monday, the $5 raffle ticket he bought paid off. He got a call on Tue morning that he’d won a meat tray! In my mind, I pictured a deli meat platter...
by Hugh and Justine | Mar 17, 2024
So emus are supposed to be fairly common here – there are apparently around 700,000 of them across the country. That’s nowhere near the 50 million kangaroos we have, but still a good number of large, running birds. On the highway between Yeppoon and...
by Hugh and Justine | Mar 10, 2024
I’ve stolen the title of this blog from our friend Joanne – this is the phrase she used when she posted photos of Hugh’s, Kevin’s, and her great wins at this week’s golf comp in Bargara! When people here meet Hugh and ask what kind of...
by Hugh and Justine | Mar 3, 2024
Not a lot to report on this week, so that gives me an opportunity to finally share information I’ve been gathering on health care prices. Probably a boring topic for Aussies but for Canadians, who aren’t given any information about what various health...
by Hugh and Justine | Feb 25, 2024
On Friday after work, Hugh and I decided to go for a walk on the beach. The big question here is of course, which beach? We have so many to choose from! We decided on Farnborough Beach, but further north than we’ve been previously. Farnborough Beach is ENORMOUS...
