Tapp's Travels

I’m so far behind that it’s now 2023! So, we wish everyone a Happy New Year. … and I’ll get a bit out of sequence now … While we were in Samford we came across the Ford Anglia from the…

Jack took us for a swim one afternoon.  Well, more accurately,  we took him to a swimming gala at Perigian 25 km north of base.  All the schools round here appear to have Olympic-sized pools! Jack was, for everyone’s convenience,…

Forty minutes south of Melbourne city there is a hill overlooking Port Phillip Bay.  (It might even have been “an hill”, grammatically speaking!)  The first British explorers entered the bay in 1802 and subsequently named the hill Arthurs Seat due…

My sister, Elizabeth (aka Liz or Bij by me) had a few days in Queensland with an ex-neighbour of hers from her early days in Australia at Mornington.  They had booked a place on Bribie Island so we took the…

Well, now it’s time for our first foray away from.  We have arranged to visit Glenda’s cousin Beryl in Stanthorpe out in the Granite County.  But first we have a two night stay, glamping at Mount Cotton.  We need to…

Ultimate is sort of cross between American football and netball.  It’s played on sand or grass with a Frisbee.  Jack plays this with the grown ups.   He can throw the disc as far as the big people (and just as…

We arrived on the Monday.  On Tuesday morning I was “brutally” woken at 10.30 am by Glenda (with a cup of tea, to be fair)!  After that I’ve been getting up (most days) with the dawn. Around here this happens…

Our first flight for decades – or so it seems. Having returned from Norway (by boat) with Covid, we left the exclusive 1% club.  That small band of viral escapees!  It gave us problems with pre-planned dental appointments and Covid…