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My good friend Kirsty Wilson from Travel Tips Plus & Interim Business Solutions wrote a blog post last week entitled ‘Souvenirs: Postcards from Travel Destinations”. I posted the link onto our Facebook page asking: “Do you keep all the PostCards you receive?” Photo: Travel Tips Plus “I keep them!” piped up Charley Jones And Sarah […]
I spotted this out of the window… “What?” You may ask! A Masked Lapwing (also known as a Masked Plover or the Spur Winged Plover ~ Vanellus miles) So I took a closer look (when the bird had gone for a walk) and look what she was sitting on 🙂 Then, a few days later – on […]
With the coming of the school holidays here in Australia and their associated car trips with children, to help alleviate the ‘Are we there yet?‘s, I’ve created an Eye Spy game with the aid of either of our maps ~ the Map Journal, which is A2 size, or a little Mail-It Map that is A3 size. […]
‘Mangroves’ vegetate the inter-tidal area between land and sea that gets flooded with the tides. The name Mangrove is therefore applied to any plant that is able to live in salt water whether a tree, a bush, a fern, grass or shrub. Over 18% of the Australian coast line is vegetated with mangroves ~ This week, I was […]
At the end of each month… I jot down what has been the main highlight for that month, so at the end of the year (and for the fun of future reminiscing) I’ll have the year simply summarized on a single sheet on one of our Map Journals ~ The highlight for May was the expansion of our Map […]
What is this woman doing – Walking along with a stick held aloft? 🙂 … Water divining? Nope ~ Just out for a leisurely evening stroll in the bush 😀 But it can be spoilt when unknowingly one walks into one of these! Spiders in Australia A spider draped across my path waiting for dinner to drop […]
Cultural exchanges in Australia ~ I was in Brisbane last week ~ And with business done… I couldn’t resist popping into the Queensland Art Gallery for a quick look! It fascinates me how they’re able to have such a beautiful big water feature in amongst their delicate art works! For the longevity of the exhibits the […]
Map Magnet Memories At the beginning of 2010 we introduced a line of fridge magnets illustrated with our pictorial hand drawn maps that we added to our Journey Jottings range of Australia Map Journals, Mail-It Maps and 12″ Scrapbook maps ~ Regions covered by our Map Magnets We started off by covering the major cities […]
I can barely believe that I’ve now been blogging a year 🙂 Last year on May 21st 2009 I put up my first post and from that acorn here I am 150 posts on 😉 As outlined in my About Us page I love landscape, maps and journaling ~ To this end I have written about the wonderful Australian […]
