Hugh and I have gone south at Christmas for a number of years, so being somewhere warm over the Christmas holidays isn't strange. But being somewhere warm in the lead up to Christmas sure is! I have a monthly calendar that I brought with me from Canada and when I...

Let's get the frog part over with. I am keenly aware that just one week ago, I commented that the green tree frogs in our gutters didn't bother me. I lied. They are LOUD. When it was just one, not too bad. But when a second one arrived (or maybe more, we still haven't...

Before getting into this week's Aussie experiences, I wanted to follow up on a couple of last week's. First, our friend Ray sent this interesting article about vegemite in the NY Times last week (definitely worth reading - right click on the photo to open in new tab,...