It has been on our list to take the kids camping out in the Grampians National Park, for a while. We can officially say that this has finally been completed. With the park in our backyards, it made sense for it to be the place to visit for our first family camping adventure. We selected Buandik […]
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This weekend Tom & I have been working in the garden tidying it up. Grass is useless here. We tend to grow weeds, not grass anyway. Currently, we have no grass. It’s all dead because of summer. Instead of grass, we decided to wood-chip it (with a weed mat underneath). We haven’t quite finished the
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On one of our recent trips to Melbourne, we started looking through old photos. I was looking for a particular photo of me as a kid that is a spitting image of Kayla. I couldn’t find the photo, but the memories that were brought up looking at the old photos, oh what’s not to love?
Goal planning started for me in December 2015. I started writing thing down, but really didn’t get a chance to really clarify my goals until recently. My Goals so far look a little like this: Books Goals I want to read as many books on my book shelf as possible. I have books on there
Sisters Rocks is located just off the Western Highway, Stawell. The huge granite tor’s were named after the Levi Sisters, who camped there in the early gold days. Sisters Rocks doesn’t look like it use to but, is a graffiti artist’s heaven, with the graffiti changing with the times.
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Kayla loves to run. She runs 1-2km with SAAC (local running club) when the season is going. Her best 1km is around 5:25, which some adults struggle with. She has asked if she can come on one of my runs, as she is wanting to build up to 5km. I decided to do 4:1 intervals
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It’s hard to believe that it has been a year since I last did a Day in the Life post. Too long, I say. So I’m going to make sure I do a few of them during this year. This time around I’m going to do a Day in the Life of a holiday. Let’s
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Summer days mean hot days and warm nights. Sure that means getting up just that little bit earlier to get a run in. But with summer comes a change in music. Music is definitely seasonal, and changes when the temperature gets warmer or cooler. So here is my list of summer songs to blast me
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It’s never going to happen to me, says every runner before they head out the door. But do you really think about your safety when you go out on a run? Here are 5 examples of preventable accidents. And more recently: Ok, so some of these examples are extreme, but they are all something that
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I’m the type of person that doesn’t burn but does tan quite easily. So wearing sunscreen is important to me when I run in the morning. My problem with sunscreens is that when I sweat it stings my eyes. Which hurts. Which has been the reason why I have not been wearing sunscreen when I
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