Hugh & Justine’s Excellent Adventure
Pot Plants
As you've been gathering with each time I put "Aussie for..." after I use a new word, there is a lot of new vocabulary to learn here! Obviously most words are the same but some are different and some have multiple variations. Thankfully, the Aussies all seem to know...
The Spring Trifecta
Quick health update - fabulous news on Tuesday, the pathology reports confirm ZERO CANCER outside of the uterus. The cancer staging was Stage 1A Grade 2, so that means no further treatment is required, just twice a year check-ups for 3 years. WOOHOO! And I continue to...
Birds, Bats, and Snakes – and a Proper G&T
Well I promised you another flying creature, so here you go - fruit bats, also known as flying foxes. We happened to be outside on the west side of our house at sunset one evening and we noticed literally THOUSANDS of what we thought were birds flying from north to...
Mid-Week Medical Update – All is Good!
Will get back to my usual blog on Sunday, but just wanted to post a quick update on how things went this week, which is incredibly well! I "enjoyed" a no-gin and tonic on our patio this weekend during the "no alcohol before surgery" period: I can now confirm that the...
Trying out the Australian Health Care System
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 with the bad news so that you...
Our Stuff Arrived!
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...
“The Tip”
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 also educational. I can honestly say, I...
The Shipping News: Eating Crow
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 self...
Barefoot, Self-Employed, and not “in the Kitchen” 🙂
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. We...
Silver, Gold, Silver, and Bronze!
Well it's been quite the sporting week here in little Yeppoon, with some successful performances by the new Canadian transplants! Hugh started the week off well on Monday placing 2nd in a field of 100 in a golf comp! (Aussie translation reminder: comp = tourney) Hugh...
Paint, Pasta, Bread, Birds, and Bingo
Still no sign of our shipping container :(. But the good news is, we haven't heard that they've inspected it and found problems, so hopefully it's just busy and they haven't gotten to it yet. But we figured it's a good time to start painting the house while we still...
Some Canada in our Hearts
So we got the jump on Canada Day this year, being 14 hours ahead of our friends in Ontario 🙂 We went to our fellow Canadian ex-pat friends' place for dinner and they hosted another amazing evening! Rob got us started with homemade Caesars: You can't get Clamato in...