What is this thing?

I have been working on a project recently that my younger daughter asked me to make. It is not something I would normally make. You probably won’t recognise what it is as it is not completed yet. I still have to add the tail fins. These are all the parts of the object I was…

When in Canberra. . . .

When we were in Canberra recently my daughter asked me if I would do a bit of framing for her.  It is ages since I last did any framing so I was delighted to say yes.  The print is a gift that she had received and she just needed to get it framed.  I don’t…

Canberra bashing as tired as New Zealand sheep jokes

We are approaching the time for our national election and I thought it was a good time to revisit this post I wrote in 2012.I lived and worked in Canberra for about thirty five years.  I met my husband there, married there and raised a family there.  It is a beautiful city and one I…

A renewal of an acquaintance

We visited Canberra last weekend as a surprise for our younger daughter’s birthday.  While we were there we had a family day out at one of the historical properties in the Australian Capital Territory. There are not many historical properties as the ACT has a very short history in the scheme of things as Canberra…

Money makes the world go round. . . . .

We were recently in Canberra for a day and we paid a visit to the Royal Australian Mint. The picture above is the entry that we used when we visited with our children many years ago.  We were now visiting with our granddaughter and we were surprised to find that this is no longer the…

Tuesday Travels. . . A Canberra attraction that is often missed by tourists

Canberra, as our nation’s capital, has many attractions for the tourists but one which is perhaps not as well known as the others is the National Archives. . . . “We are the nation’s memory – a living collection of government records illuminating our history and identity.” It is an unprepossessing building which in its…