This week has all been about Davey! Well, a few days anyway. Although we both had to work on his birthday, there was at least a morning tea at work to keep me happy until I got home, where there was a birthday cake (more of a stack than a cake really) made completely from donuts! Jen had even tried to surprise me by meeting me in the foyer downstairs but as she went down one lift, I had come up the other! In the evening we headed to the Brisbane Cricket Gro...

The last couple of weeks have been nice and relaxed while we have tried to get used to Christmas and New Year in the heat. South Bank has been full of events and displays on and around the river and we spent a couple of hours lying out on the grass watching The Polar Express on a huge inflatable screen while we quietly baked! Christmas day was full of the traditional activities: namely eating until we felt ill and then spending the afternoon lounging in fro...

We are currently recovering from another long weekend of entertaining as Julie McGooly has just returned to Sydney after coming to visit. We had planned for a quiet Friday night with a couple of local drinks so we stayed in South Bank and headed for The Point restaurant and bar where we took a seat outside while perusing the drinks list. We had only been there a few minutes when we heard an almighty clap of thunder and suddenly the heavens opened and the rai...

After a day of getting over her jetlag our first stop with Lucy was down the valley, where we met up with Tasha and Simon as well as Animitra. However, the highlight of the evening was definitely the enormous New York Pizza the three of us enjoyed on the way home. The next day we dragged ourselves out of bed and onto the joys of public transport and headed over to Stradbroke Island for the day. Having never been to the island before we got off at the ferry ter...

After we had recovered from our weekend on Moreton Island it was time to plan for Jen's birthday and the arrival of another hommie in the form of Miss Caselton. After a couple of 'normal' weeks it was time for Jen to get a little bit older. The main activities were brought forward a couple of days to the weekend and it started with a wander around the streets of Brisbane to get her sufficiently disorientated before we headed up the stairs to a day spa where sh...