In just under three weeks, myself and a few others will be embarking on a 225km bike ride – uphill. Starting at Tathra on NSW’s far south coast, we’ll be riding (almost) to the summit of Mt Kosciusko before walking the final 4km. I quite like riding, even riding up hills, but this is a [...]
Interesting Stories
River likes slides
The other night I realised we have a lot of video footage of River on slides. She seems to like them. Here’s a highlight reel. Until next time, Brendan, Angela, River and Asher [...]
River and Asher build an herb garden
Enjoy. (Although, if it defaults to 240p in YouTube, click the little cog/setting button and pump the res to 720p). And while you’re at it, check out this one too. [...]
New Batty in town
Heads up folks, there’s a new Batty in town! Congratulations to brother Tom and his wife Madeline on the birth of their second daughter, Indiana Sandra. We were lucky enough to get some snaps of this beautiful little lady in her first weeks. What a stunner! River thinks she is “just lovely”. Leave a nice [...]
A letter of resignation
One of the worst experiences of our trip around Australia was the night of July 8, 2011. Nothing went right. That morning we’d departed from Seaforth, a small town about 40 minutes north of Mackay. We’d spent a week or so there, visited by Megan and Pete, sharing our time with friends we’d met earlier [...]
(Not quite) camp cooking
One of our most staple meals during our travels was a little McCormicks rice cooker mix for chicken risotto. It was super easy to make and only required one pot, which is the best kind of meal when you are camping if you ask me! Brendan loved it so much we made sure to put [...]
Beaten by a year two kid.
Here is the first work I ever had published. To date, I have written nothing better. The Ghost Castle Once upon a time there was a big ghost house and a ghost lived in it. No one went near it except me because I could fight ghosts. Some people call me ghost fighter and some [...]
Any given Tuesday (at 1am)(in a rock pool)(and actually only once a year)(sometimes it’s not even a Tuesday)
It’s 12:15am, Christmas morning. The 11pm Christmas Eve service of the local Anglican church has just wrapped up and people should be heading home so Santa has time to get all his work done. An excited, yet hushed whispering is spreading through the church hall and the congregation is filing out. A suspiciously large portion [...]
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