Charlie's WorldBack to England – part 1
Posted on September 9, 2012
It was time to see the children in England. I’d booked the flights ages ago – but as the Olympics were on, they were massively expensive and only the less desirable flight times were available. I worked all day Friday and then caught the flight out at 2am *bleaugh* was a very long day. I got a bit of sleep, did the 2 hour stop at Singapore and then the next leg – the joyous 14 hour hop to London.
Anyway, it was all good – the airport was unusually quiet and I popped out into arrivals into 32 degree heat – rare for England and almost summer temperature for Perth! Picked up my hire car and drove to my parents house where my children were waiting for me.
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Red Wine Wednesday – Old Kent River 2005 Shiraz
Posted on August 2, 2012
Its Wednesday!! And guess what? Red Wine Time! Actually, that’s a teensy fib – its really Thursday, I just forgot to post this yesterday. Luckily for me, I’m in Australia and 3/4 of the globe is behind me, day-wise, so there might be somewhere left that’s still Wednesday!
It’s not good really – first I do a Red White Wine Wednesday and then I spring a Red Wine Wednesday Thursday on you all! Some consistent brand image that is!! It’ll probably degenerate into a daily slurred Some Alcohol Day post before too long and you’ll be wondering what’s gone wrong in my life!!
So, what does this wonderful day have in store, wine wise?
A gorgeous Shriaz from the Old Kent River Winery in the Great Southern wine region of Western Australia. Read More
busy weekends
Posted on July 29, 2012
Its not been a very good few months for weekends – there’s been so much to do I feel like I’m going back to work on Mondays for a rest! What with all the clearing up of the storm damage, fixing my roof and getting the back garden ready for the new fence.Then the whole family was sick and blah blah, I felt like I’d not had a proper break in ages!
Red/White Wine Wednesday – Houghton White Classic
Posted on July 25, 2012
Greetings!! Its Red Wine Wednesday with a twist! A little awesome added alliteration for your consideration – yes, its a White Wine Wednesday!
I’ve been kinda busy – too busy for wine really – I know, that’s not really an excuse, but there you have it. I’ve been clearing the garden of the storm damaged trees and fences every weekend for seemingly ages – its all done now, but that’s beer work, not red wine appreciation time.
Anyway, enough waffling – I have a chilled white in a glass waiting for appreciation.
Todays RWWW is Houghtons White Classic Read More
Oout and Aboot
Posted on June 24, 2012
Yes, I know, 2 posts in 2 days – I’m just too good to you all! It’s like your birthday or something!
Ok ok, given the month off, I do probably have some making up to do!
Right, so, another motley collection of photos and disjointed experiences! Read More
Raising Hell
Posted on June 23, 2012
We’ve had a few storms here over the last few weeks. Big arsed hairy Indian Ocean winter storms.
These are usually ok – the wind howls, the rain falls and then its gone. Except this time we had 2 of them back to back, the first with a sudden howling gale that knocked down fences and trees and damaged the roof and the second, a few days later, bringing 12 hours of violent wind and torrential rain. This, as you can imagine did not go well with the already damaged roof, and water came pouring in through one ceiling over of the windows in the back of the house. Bah!
Red Wine Wednesday – Killibinbin Scaredy Cat 2007
Posted on May 30, 2012
Greetings one and all! I trust you’re all having lots of fun out there in your corners of the world.
So, its Wednesday – it’s red wine time! I’ve had to resort to one of the wines I’ve drunk ‘off wednesday’ as it were because I’m sick again and theres nothing worse than alcohol when you’re ill.
So, without further ado, this week’s wine is *drum roll*
Killibinbin Scaredy Cat 2007 by Brothers in Arms Wineries. Read More
Holidays – part 6
Posted on May 21, 2012
It was the last day and everyone was tired and wanted a lie-in. I, of course, woke up at 5am to the dawn light. Meh – no lie-in for me. Ah well.
I decided to go out with the tripod and take some more ‘professional’ (read – taking a long time messing about with different settings that would not be possible with a family in tow) photos of Greens Pool and Elephant Rocks. Read More
Holidays – day 5
Posted on May 7, 2012
The first thing we did in Denmark was to go to a nearby Alpaca farm. The kids had been couped up and needed to run around and to pet fluffy animals.
Pentland Alpaca Farm was about 15 minutes from where we were staying and looked quite promising from the website. I’d had a few recommendations from other people too, so it was pretty much the first thing we had to do.
We were the first people there and had to wait a little bit before it opened. It was worth getting there early though, we had the place to ourselves for an hour before more families started rocking up Read More
Holidays – day 4
Posted on April 29, 2012
So, where were we? Ah yes, wine tasting and long days out.
Well, the next day we had to drive to Denmark which is a pretty long way through mostly forest and on windy little roads. Fun. Especially with kids.
Don’t get me wrong, its a beautiful forest, but it does go on. And on. And on.
We kept on trucking for a few hours until forest started opening up into farms and we reached Pemberton, a logging town, where we joined my parents for lunch
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