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South African Violence

I don’t usually write anything political on my blog, but this turned my stomach! May 2013: bloodiest month this year for white South Africans: 69 attacks, 101 victims, 20 murders, 20 farm attacks Sunette Bridges writes: “Tomorrow is the last day of one of the bloodiest and most violent months [...]

Weekend at the farm

Over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend (yes, the Aussies still celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday!), Josh and I went up to the farm near Buninyong (which is near Ballarat). Most of the weekend was spent outdoors chopping wood, moving logs and inspecting fences or eating and drinking beer. Below are some [...]

Legendary Afrikaans Words

Legendary Afrikaans words How do you explain the word “sommer” to an Australian or an Engelsman or to anyone else, for that matter. It’s not only a foreign word, it’s a foreign concept. Perhaps the English never do anything “just sommer”. But when you’ve explained it, it’s been adopted enthusiastically [...]

Australia’s weirdest baby names

About 2½ years ago, I posted an article about unusual names that people had given their kids. Well, here is the latest list out of Australia. Weirdest boy’s and girl’s names in Australia: BOYS GIRLS Aero Alpha Ball Bond Burger Cajun Casanova Cello Cobain Crusoe Devid Donathan Drifter Elite Espn [...]

Run across Australia

I’ve always wanted to cross across Australia – on a bike, a Vespa or a campervan. But now I’ve decided that I will RUN across the Nullabor! Not literally, of course! That would kill me! Instead, every time I do a run, I will track it on a map from [...]

Weekend in Sydney – Easter 2013

After much planning (planes, trains or automobile), we finally set off to Sydney at 1.30am on Easter Friday. The kids slept most of the way while it was dark and watched DVDs during the day, so the trip was pretty uneventful. Ten hours later, we arrived in Sydney’s West where [...]

Jump in!

An afternoon of fun in the sun and the pool after the temperature hit 38°C Jump in! from DelBoy on Vimeo. 7 people like this post. Like Unlike

Riding Silvan Forest

Last week I went for my first mountain bike trail ride of the new season – and it was awesome! I’d forgotten how much fun it was to ride the singletrack! I filmed the whole 2 hours of riding and edited it down to the video below. 2 people like [...]

Melbourne Half Marathon Race Day!

The big day finally arrived! Race day! It was a cold 9°C as we waited around for the starters gun – all 10 000 of us! The shot fired at exactly 8am and the slow walk towards the starting line began. The congestion was horrendous as I passed through the [...]