Bin chickens is an Aussie slang term given to the much maligned white ibis. The Australian white ibis is actually one of three ibis species that are native to Oz, but their emergence as urban dwellers is a relatively recent phenomenon Bin chickens would normally feed on a wide range of food including yabbies, worms,…
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Top of Australia
The Hub and a few mates have mountain biked and hiked to the top of Australia today. Mt Kosciuszko is Australia’s highest peak at 2,228 metres (7,310 ft) above sea level. I climbed to the top when I was about 16 years old but think I might have to do it again. Have you been…
Christmas Bounty
Wow, another Christmas done and dusted. Our decorations are down and Christmas lights in – they just need to be packed away. It’s been a lovely couple of days (quite cool, so no picnicking sadly). I was very spoilt this Christmas as you can tell from the photo below: A very dear friend gave me…
Our Christmas traditions
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, so I thought I’d share my family traditions for this time of year. When I was a kid growing up my parents had two different businesses and worked 363 days of the year. The only days they didn’t work were Christmas Day and Easter Sunday. So we had our special Christmas…
Aussie Christmas carols
The other day I posted about my love of Christmas carols. Thanks to one of the comments left on that post, I realised I’ve never posted about our Aussie Christmas carols. Australia has some Christmas carols which are our own, plus there are a couple of traditional carols we’ve reworded to make a little more…