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....
by Hugh and Justine | Jul 16, 2023
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)...
by Hugh and Justine | Jul 9, 2023
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...
by Hugh and Justine | Jul 2, 2023
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...
