I just don’t feel the same about Australia Day any more. I used to enjoy it as a day celebrating how happy I was to live in this great country, with the way we spent the day highlighting some of those things – enjoying one of Queensland’s beautiful beaches, and the sun, surf and sand […]

The season is over for our Epic Brisbane Heat WBBL team, and while they didn’t make the WBBL01 finals it’s hard to view our initial foray into supporting women’s cricket as anything other than an outstanding success. WBBL matches have drawn fantastic crowds around the country, in addition to such strong TV audience numbers that […]

We’ve just returned from our fifth consecutive Christmas holiday in Hawaii and a number of people have asked me to share some of my top Hawaii tips so here they are! Each year we stay at the beautiful Royal Hawaiian Hotel, which has occupied prime position on Waikiki beach since 1927.  The Hawaiian word for […]

Our Elf on the Shelf first joined us for Christmas 2009 when I found him in Barnes and Noble on my first ever visit to New York, where he came all boxed up with the Elf story book.  I took him home to Sascha and Sam, who loved the book, the concept, and most of all Alfie, as they named him, and he […]

I’ve been fortunate enough to  receive some pretty good Christmas gifts in my time, but I honestly can’t remember one which is more exciting than this years’.  Stuart has been extremely smug for quite some time about having Christmas well covered this year, and a few weeks ago he had to come clean on his […]