So today my BFR and I skipped school and ran away from home. Yesterday we finished the four week program and we were supposed to return this morning to take a test that would show us how much (or little!)…
Category: travel
Choose your own adventure
As you know I like to take a saying and make it my own. I have many of them. One of my favourites has always been: You can choose your own adventure OR have it foisted upon you. Nothing that…
75 days to go
The countdown is on. With less than three months to go, it is starting to feel real, but still not soon enough. I want to enjoy the build up. But with my birthday next week, I guess it is not…
Down the rabbit hole
Travel planning is like shopping – it can consume you for hours. The FOT has been 50 years’ in the making, so there is a lot of anticipation. But I was surprised to find that when the time came to…
Pivoting
Now that I’ve quit my job and most of Australia is in Covid Lock Down, it’s an ideal time to do what our government suggests. To pivot. It’s a term they came up with last year when all the gin…
Chateaux P*rn
We call it Chateaux P*rn. It’s ideal for passing the time during boring online meetings which are the mainstay of our lives during the Covid pandemic. It’s possible to be visible to your colleagues during tedious and unnecessary hour-long zoom…
The FOT
A few years ago when I first started thinking about what to do when I turned 50 and my kids left home, I came up with the FOT – the Festival of Tina. For some reason the local children call…