Tag: overseas
-
BSP #65 – Who’s Minding the Store?
With our impending adventure, folk have been wondering what will happen to the menagerie in our absence. Colin is very excited to be heading back to Mahuika Animal and Plant Care, down the road in Greendale, and is looking forward to showing Shirley all the cool things Lucy and her family have for their canine…
-
En-ga-land Swings
London is big, busy, and buzzy. Everyone is in a hurry and there’s all kind of traps for new kids on the block…and we loved it! The musty, stuffy, smelly, noisy, hot-air-huffy queues and bustle of the tube, the impatient joggers around all the tourist hotspots (seriously, you can’t get grumpy about dawdling tourists if…
-
Twenty Seven Years of Uncelebrated Bliss
Twenty seven years ago today the pre Union Homestead union of The Milk Maid and The Bean Counter was made official making today a thing we, as a couple, are not particularly gifted in the art of celebrating: an anniversary. It’s not like we didn’t want to be like our contemporaries and mark this momentous occasion in the…
-
Finking ’bout Far-flung Family
Last Saturday marked the Winter Solstice for us southern hemisphere dwellers and that can only mean one thing. Well, if you want to be picky, it means a variety of things of which the need for the artful layering of clothing, employing a torch for the final paddock check of the day and answering the conundrum of…
