I have to say this typing this is starting to sound a little repetitive, but Friday was upon us and once again we were to be heading out of town for a weekend with our friends, a long weekend in Western Australia and as always we like to take advantage and make the most of them.When we were returning from our Christmas break at Esperance we stopped for a night at a great free camp spot called Pumphries Bridge, it is about 25 Kilometres from the nearest town of Pingelly, (pronounced Pin-Jelly) and we had promised ourselves that we would return as it’s only a couples of hours from Perth. This week had gone in a blink of an eye, Peter and Leigh stayed with us for a couple of nights as they are just about ... read more

Land of the Giants They say size matters, whoever “they” are and I guess it’s true, Australia has the biggest mining company in the world, and we also have the biggest open cut mine in the world, so without the need for one upmanship, we were excited that the Giants were coming to Perth and I believe that they were not visiting any other part of this massive country, so we were very privileged to get the opportunity to see them. For the past couple of months they were advertising on TV, the fact that the Giants were coming to Perth which would be part of the Perth International Arts Festival and this was the weekend they would be here. So first let me set the scene and tell you about where the Giants Come from. ... read more

Aussie Import 25 & 26thJanuary 2015 Sunday morning arrived and the day of our Australia day celebrations, we had set a breakfast date with everyone for 7.30 with the same guests we had for dinner last night Everybody dutifully arrived, (except for Brian and Nesta, who’s excuse was they cannot remember me advising them we would do breakfast) and we cooked for another 12 hungry campers, eggs bacon, sausage, grilled tomatoes and toast. We all then regrouped over to the TLCC membership area as the Cricket matches had started at 8.00am. Now Australia day is a big day, it’s all about celebrating Australia’s identity, meats pies, lamingtons, cricket and generally having fun, historically it’s when the first fleet of British ships landed in 1788 at Port Jackson. It is celebrated on 26thJanuary but as most of ... read more

The Great Escape 22-23rd January 2015 The Australia day weekend was nearly upon us and as usual we were preparing to go away, with the good times that we had had down in Myalup on Andy (B’s) birthday weekend still ringing in our ears, we were looking forward to another big weekend down in Manjimup with the Toyota Landcruiser Club for Australia Day where 100 of us were gathering at Fonty’s Pool for some fun. Roobie was packed and ready to go, we only got her back on Tuesday after having a word in Kimberley Kampers ear about the quality of her gas bayonette they installed and after having to do some research and a drawing or two we finally got what we wanted, so she was collected on Tuesday night then it was straight over ... read more

I could just imagine the Quarantine Officer at the airport say to me, “Excuse me sir! Do you have pigs ears?” To which I reply, “No mate it’s just the way this hat is sitting”. Whoo Hoo, We have booked our flights and we are heading over east on 26th March for two weeks firstly for a country wedding in Tarcutta for a lovely young couple who are starting out on their adventure of married life and we will be having the pleasure of staying at our spiritual home of…… yes you guessed it, Woodstock our favourite farm. So we will fly on the red eye from Perth to Sydney and then on to Wagga Wagga arriving in Wagga at 9.10 am in the morning and probably leaning on the kind nature of Helen to collect ... read more