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When I asked followers on our Facebook page : “What was your favourite journey?” Here is what *you* said in Favourite Journey Part 1 Here is the second half! 🙂 Julie Wise Not my trip but I think we all need to hear the story…My neighbours are just back from what was to be 6wk […]
When I posted this on our Facebook page : “What was your favourite journey?” This is what *you* said 🙂 Yvonne Adele My first trip to New York, where I came back with a life-long souvenir– a NY yankees tattoo! The day after I got it, I sat at Yankee Stadium – forward in my seat […]
It’s always exciting to get invitations to art gallery exhibition openings and this week I got one for an exhibition of lino-prints by Anna Curtis at ‘Framed ~ The Darwin Gallery’ that runs from the 9th July to the end of the month (2010) If you are lucky enough to be in Darwin (enjoying the […]
If someone asked you “What does Journey Jottings do?” What would you say? I came across a blog-post a few weeks ago that with community input (992 comments to date!) is nutting out the answer to this question to come up with a few pertinent words that conveys in a nutshell what each participant does […]
The simplest of things are so often the most enjoyable ~ Last weekend,we had the pleasure of watching the moon rise up behind Stradbroke Island during our evening walk… And the following morning, woke up to this simply beautiful sunrise What a weekend 😀 Have a good one!
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 […]
