While backing up an SD card from last year I stumbled across this photo taken in July, the middle of winter in Australia. It was actually a double rainbow but this is the only one I had of the whole rainbow. I love rainbows. Not unicorns, though [...]
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Snapshots of 2010
Posted in Family, Perth & WA, Travel, tagged beach, Indian Ocean, North Beach, Oprah, Perth, rainbow, summer, Sun, sunset, West Coast Drive, winter on January 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Online shopping
Posted in Family, Food, Perth & WA, Society, tagged Aussie Farmers Direct, Coles, delivery, fruit, groceries, IGA, local, online shopping, Perth, shopping, vegetables, Woolworths on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Many years ago, after the birth of my first child, I used an online grocery shopping service in Perth called Electrolley. The food was fresh but it didn’t do many deliveries to my suburb. It no longer operates and I always presumed it had been too ahead of its time. A year or so back [...]
Disney Promotion – Movie Giveaway!
Posted in Family, Movies, Perth & WA, Television, tagged competition, Disney, Donald Duck, Event Cinemas, giveaway, Goofy, Greater Union, Handy Manny, Innaoo, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Choo-Choo Express, movie, Playhouse Disney, Pluto on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Parents often complain there are no suitable movies to take children to outside the school holidays. Complain no more because from May 6 the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Choo-Choo Express is pulling into Greater Union and Event Cinemas in Perth for a series of special $6 screenings aimed at pre-schoolers and their families. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse [...]
Perth’s best kept secret?
Posted in Family, Movies, Perth & WA, tagged 500 Days of Summer, Avatar, Drive-in, dwayne johnson, Stephen Merchant, the rock, The West, Tooth Fairy on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am surprised by the number of people who have fond memories of Perth’s drive-ins – who don’t realise we still have one. As mentioned in a previous post, we recently went to the Galaxy in Kingsley to see Avatar. That’s north of the river for you south siders. This week the feature is The Tooth Fairy [...]
Kid-friendly summer movies & fun at the drive-in
Posted in Family, Movies, Perth & WA, Uncategorized, tagged 3-D, Alvin, animation, Avatar, Chipmunks, Disney, Drive-in, family film, film, Kingsley, movie, parents, Perth, Princess and the Frog, star wars, summer holidays on January 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had a lot of parents asking me in the last week or so which films I would recommend they take their children to this summer. Probably my least favourite family film this holiday season has been Alvin and the Chipmunks: the Squeakquel. Yet another sequel that fails to live up to the original and [...]




