Miscellaneous Trivia

Dean and I were chatting away last night, having a good giggle about our antics and realised there are so many things I’ve forgotten to tell you, therefore …

 

Here’s a list of miscellaneous trip trivia – enjoy 🙂

 

Dean and I laugh every day, either with or at each other.

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We miss Kate, our eldest daughter who lives in Brisbane, and can’t wait to see Shelley and Melissa, our daughters who live in Melbourne. 

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I don’t miss work and neither does Dean.  We do miss our friends.

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I have towed the caravan twice now.  The first time was from Caloundra to Brisbane, the second time was from Ballina to Yamba. 

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Yesterday I backed the van onto a (grassed) site and our neighbour said “Great job!”  I beamed with pride, and because I told him it was my first time, he said, “Well then, that was a really great job!”

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I miss my Toastmaster clubs, the Toastmaster friends I’ve made and I haven’t written a speech for just over a month.

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When we set out on our trip, I wanted to find a cowry shell, something I could treasure and say I found it myself.  So far, I’ve found at least one on every beach we’ve been on and have already collected 14.  I even found one in the shell graveyard at Iluka Bluff.

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Dean had a watch on (an expensive one) when he went surfing at Yamba and it was two days before he realised it had been gifted to the surf gods.

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I found three abalone shells, they are only small but full of pretty colours.

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I tried to cook a cake in the Baby Q and it was completely inedible.  Dean still doesn’t know what this “cake” thing is that everyone talks about.

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My attempt at making you think about what it was I hadn’t done for two weeks with Time to Play a Game was too easy, but I laughed and laughed when our eldest daughter thought I hadn’t shaved my legs.

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In Grafton, I had a Chicken Parmigiana 6-inch sub from Subway complete with avocado and garlic aioli and all the salad veggies and it was really good.

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I work on my blog most days, sometimes adjusting the look and feel or answering comments, other times writing and editing new ‘thoughts’.  I really enjoy it and often wonder why I didn’t start writing a blog years ago.

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My attempt at cooking biscuits in the Baby Q wasn’t any better than my attempt at making a cake with more than ½ the batch ruined.

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On the way back from Red Rock, I pushed my bike up all three rises in the road.

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Most of the featured images and photos on my blog I’ve taken myself and I know I’m not a terrific photographer, but I do try.  I’ve created some of the graphics myself using Word, Excel and Wordle and image capturing software.

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I had Chicken Parmigiana at The Amble Inn Hotel, Corindi Beach on Sunday night and didn’t post the review I wrote because the meal was so bad.  Because, if you can’t say anything nice …

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We have registered as house-sitters with Aussie House Sitters and our first ‘job’ is in January on the shores of Lake Macquarie for 19 nights.

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My feet and heels are soft and supple thanks to Mother Natures beauty remedy – walking along the sand.

Dean just told me that maybe I should rub my face up and down the sand.

See what I have to live with?

Don’t worry, even though I have tears of laughter streaming down my face, I’ll get him back for that – eventually.

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