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 maybe 30-40 cm...

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 Rockhampton, there...

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 work he does, he typically...