Author: Geoff

For the past ten weeks our oldest grand son (he will be twenty-one real soon) Kai Walden has been toiling away as a Recruit in the naval training establishment at HMAS Cerberus in Victoria. On December 11th 2025, that toiling came to a successful completion with his and 104 other recruits’ graduation parade. We would…

Christmas approaches and it is time for Grandma to make some rocky road. Not sure how this stuff may have gotten the name “rocky road” but that is not important because it tasts really good. And it is no wonder that it tastes good because, as you will see it is completely made of sweet…

This tells the story of the rear axle of my trike deciding to break off relatively cleanly

Not sure if Burnett State College’s awards night each year is on November 11th, but it was this year. So Lorraine and I went to see how our family members fared. Our daughter, Tanya is Subject Master for the Senior School and her son Noah is finishing year 11 and her daughter Imogen is finishing…

The above poinciana tree is on the foot path outside our house. It has flowered very well in spite of the relatively drought weather we have had for the last six months or more. We don’t do anything much to make it grow well. We had planted a couple of jacaranda trees on the foot…