Thursday 20th February 2025 Have you ever had one of those weekends that you wished you could repeat? Not repeat because you wanted to change anything, but because it was all so wonderful, you wanted the opportunity to savour it all again and not miss a moment! This last weekend was like that for me…

Thursday 13th February 2025 It’s nice to be home. Despite what it might look like with all our travel, I do like it here. I like it a lot, in fact! My favourite place to be at home is unsurprisingly in the kitchen. If you have been to my house, you will know it’s the…

Week ending THURSDAY 6TH FEB Things aren’t always as they seem. Fake news, misinformation, exaggeration, falsification, or simply just not giving the full picture are all common complexities with information sharing in 2025! The other day a friend said to me, “Your life is perfect,” which instantly made me feel nauseous. Did my life look…

FRIDAY 31st JANUARY 2025 And just like that, January is gone! The year is whizzing by, but what a great month January was! Starting with the SCG test and watching a win against India; a fabulous family gathering for my brother-in-law’s birthday; an excellent and delicious trip mid-month to Canberra for my birthday; and to…

FRIDAY 24th JANUARY 2025 Thanks to those who read last week’s blog. My decision to blog weekly is working so far – two weeks in 😉 Unfortunately, putting a link on Facebook to let people know there’s a new blog post is not that successful. I assume that because FB doesn’t want me directing people…

For those of you who have been following along, you will realise that there is a bit of change happening in the Morley household. To start with, I am no longer working. After 23 years with TAFE NSW and having worked pretty much continuously since my first part-time job as a pharmacy assistant aged 13,…

2025 is going to be a fantastic year. I’ve finished work (after 23 years at TAFE NSW my last official day is Monday 6th of January), and I’m keen and ready for the ‘next stage’. I’m also sad and grieving the loss of that part of my life, but I am working through that and…

Monday and Tuesday 20th & 21st of May I’m a list girl. I feel like you either are, or you aren’t, and if you are, you will know immediately when asked the question. Lists create organisation. Organisation creates calm. Calm creates happiness. Simple! Checklists are certainly a handy part of preparation for travel for me….

Friday/Saturday/Sunday 17th-19th May 2024 Who hasn’t heard of Kruger National Park, the largest national park in Africa and the oldest in South Africa? The iconic wilderness region is situated in the north-eastern part of South Africa, covering around two million hectares, making it a little smaller than Belgium! When well-known author, and friend of Dave’s,…

Thursday 16th May 2024 Our last day in Cape Town was a sobering but great one. We started the day by making our own simple breakfast in the apartment with groceries that we received the night before, delivered with our pizza dinner. Toast with butter; yoghurt, passionfruit and banana and a hot cup of tea…

WEDNESDAY 15th MAY 2024 Cape Town is well-known for a few things, not least of all its wine. Who could come here and not explore its most well-known wine region, around Stellenbosch, about 50km north-east of Cape Town? Quite a few people had recommended the Hop-On Hop-off Wine Tram as a fun way to see…

TUESDAY 14th MAY 2024 After seeing two of the seven wonders of nature across three days (Victoria Falls and Table Mountain), it was time to settle down to some serious foodie travel activities. You may have read in my blog last week, that when we were in Mauritius 10 days ago, I was feeling unwell,…

Monday 13th May Waking up and looking out to a view of Table Mountain and Lions Head was an amazing way to start our few days in Cape Town! Sunrise was just after 7am, and the light as it rose was simply stunning and it was hard to take my eyes off it and get…

Friday 10th to Sunday 12th May 2024 Dave speaks Shona. He learnt it when he lived in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in the late 70s/early 80s. Over the last few days, he has been refreshing his skills and I cannot tell you the number of times I have seen the look of surprise, followed by a…

Thursday 9th May 2024 By the end of Thursday, I definitely had all three! I think I have managed on this holiday to severely overuse the word ‘wow’ and Thursday was one hell of a ‘wow’ day. So far everything on this trip has gone exactly to time. Knowing that was the case, we were…