I am staying in Mudgee, New South Wales and recently read about a local cleaning woman named Mary St. Clair who was arrested for swearing. She told the local constable that she had had a large sum of money stolen. He didn’t believe her. The year was 1875 and the place was central New South Wales in Australia. “Nice” women didn’t swear and women of her “station” did not have large sums of money to steal. He sent her to the Mudgee Gaol telling them she was suffering from “Lunacy�...

Somewhere in Brisbane there is a green bike helmet strapped to a tree with a plastic egg inside. It is also home to several earwigs and a colony of big black ants that bite. I know this from personal experience, because after finding this particular geocache I still had an ant climbing around under my jeans ten minutes later.

I love exploring the neighbourhood parks and a funny thing happened at a small neighbourhood park the other day. I was searching for a geocache. You may know that a geocache is a buried container that is hidden for searchers to find using a GPS unit. This one was partly buried under a bush at the back of a planted area near a children's playground.
So ....... picture this.
I am lurking around the empty playground trying to pretend I am on the phone while I use the GPS to work out which bush...

Today one of my sons turned 24 so I bought him a pair of wind up teeth

I put them into a happy birthday box that I bought at a discount store for $1.50 and added some chocolate and card with a heart felt message of love and best wishes. It cost just over $10.

I expect he would have preferred money.

but I don’t have any.

It reminded me of a time years ago when he was just a baby. My ex and I were living apart for a bit, and I went to stay in a house my mother owned with the thre...