As of February 6th, something very important has occurred, that only comes about once a year... For the next three months, I am offcially 5 whole years younger than Howie. Hoorah! We celebrated his 31st birthday in style, by cycling into town and eating a lot of curry. The curry place we wanted to go to was closed so we found another one on Gouger Street to serve our purpose. I can attest that the garlic naans were excellent. Back home we celebrated further by s...

I report to you from the midst of a heat-wave like no other. While the East Coast is gearing up for a cyclone and parts of Victoria are shrouded in torrential downpours, South Australia is experiencing a heat wave of biblical proportions. Yesterday, it was 40 degrees in Adelaide. As someone who has been to Luxor in summer, one can still attest that 40 degrees is unbearably hot. To be honest, once it hits 40, it all feels the same. It's a dry heat here, because i...

I am offcially waging war against all arachnids because my hand has been forced; I maintain that they started it. We're back in Adelaide after a fantastic trip to Queensland was rudely interupted by those in the animal kingdom that have absolutely no respect for personal space, and I think it's a damned liberty that I am going to have to continue to run away from these nasty creatures, even though I didn't do anything to them (least of all ambush them in nasty w...

Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven wonders of the natural world and the only living thing visible from space... Check! Yesterday we were up early again, waking up to a beautiful Australia Day in Queensland, and were on board the boat and off out the harbour by 8am. Stopping at a couple of islands to pick people up, we corssed a rather choppy shipping channel, then got to the pontoon on the reef by 11am. Cruise Whitsundays pontoon was awesome, with so many thin...

Ahoy there landlubbers, splice up the main brace and serve me a kipper for tea. Howie and myself are now proper sailors and shall be talking in sailor-slang. I'm also going to get him a dashing Captain's hat for his birthday. Yesterday we had a completely wonderful day doing what is generally done in the Whitsundays; we went sailing on a rather splendid, purple sailing catermoran. Truly - it was great. We had a rather early pick up at 7am and got dropped off at ...