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Dubai and Maldives

Dubai and Maldives

This school holidays we went on a 10 day holiday to Dubai and the Maldives. It was a really good trip. First we stayed at Atlantis the Royal in Dubai. Oscar and Evie loved it here because it was a 2 minute buggy ride to the water park! It also

On the Track at the 2023 Singapore GP

Singapore Grand Prix 2023

Matt, Emily and I had an idea back in around 2019 to go to the Singapore GP for Matt and my 40th birthdays. We booked hotels and tickets for Singapore 2020 and then it all unceremoniously got cancelled thanks to Rona. So we planned it all again and made it

Control Net

It's amazing what you can do with AI now. Using a image model that isn't necessary designed for doing this kind of work you can take a famous image like "View of the Wold from 9th Avenue" and turn it into a distopian cyberpunk esque futuristic image with just a

Thailand 2023

This school holidays we went back to Thailand. This is our third time there, we went once just Amy and me, once Amy, Oscar and me and now Amy, Oscar, Evie and me! We visited Trisara, Six Senses Ya-Noi and Rayavadee in Krabi. Rayavadee was a new experience for us

Deep Face

You can now without any real training or skill put yourself into any movie or video you like. These videos were created using roop which is basically an easy to use front end around some amazing AI related tools. I suspect this is just the beginning for this sort of

Kokomo Fiji 2023

Kokomo Fiji 2023

For Easter school holidays this year we visited Kokomo Island in Fiji. It was easily one of the best holidays we've ever had. I made a video of all of the best bits - I think we're going to book it again next year it was that good.

The Unforgettable 1993 Invasion of Sydney and the Turning of the Tides

The Unforgettable 1993 Invasion of Sydney and the Turning of the Tides

In 1993, the world stood witness to one of the most unexpected military invasions in history: the Axis powers' occupation of Sydney, Australia.

NSW Heritage Plates 2023

NSW Heritage Plates

NSW Heritage Plates 2023

Update: June 2023 - average 3 digit went from $349,555 to $353,133 after Shannons Auction. Average 4 digital dropped from $218,429 to $207,227 after auction results. In recent years, the New South Wales (NSW) Heritage plate market has seen a significant increase in value. In the

Juno

After a lot of research for allergy reasons we ended up with a Groodle. That is a Golden Retiever mixed with a Poodle. Her name is Juno which is kind of similar to our Palm Beach dog friend Elmo and kind of similar to my childhood dog Hugo! We've had

Lord Howe

In December we all got on a very tiny and quite unreliable service to the Island of Lord Howe. It is about 2 hours flight and is a bit East of Australia. It is an amazing Island - nothing like Australia except for all of the people and cars are

UK 2022

Our trip to the UK in UK Summer 2022!

Easter Holidays

Easter Holidays

They come around fast holidays and we have to keep children entertained for the entire time period which is harder than it sounds! First up we went to the Crown in Sydney for a weekend, it was also the Australian GP so I made sure we could watch that, it

Vomo 2022

We finally got back to Vomo Fiji after a few years of lock downs. It was great to be back and we all had a great time. Here's a video I made of the trip -

NSW Heritage Plate Price Average 10 Years

NSW Heritage Plates

NSW Heritage Plate Price Average 10 Years

10 Years of Auctions at Shannons shows the increase in cost of a 3, 4 and 5 digit Heritage Number plate in NSW. Black and white heritage plates are from the 1910-1937 era of NSW car registrations, a simpler times when '1' was put on the first car registered, '2'

Summer 2022 The Movie

Summer 2022 The Movie

Didn't really make enough videos but still something!

Summer Holidays 2022

Summer Holidays 2022

Well really it should be called 'school holidays' as that is what this post is about! It's 8 weeks of holidays for kids but they've already had unofficial holidays so it feels like a lot longer! Amy planned a lot of fun things for the holidays so here's a little

Anniversary, Birthday & Painting

2021 New Featured

Anniversary, Birthday & Painting

I've got an Apple Watch and use the Surfline app to track my surfing, it's cool because you can then sync it with your iPhone and try and watch yourself back on the video. I then found a guy on the Northern Beaches that goes down and takes photos and

BMX, Dogs, Tamiya

BMX, Dogs, Tamiya

Whilst we were in a continued lock down we got a bit creative with things to do. Oscar's friend came to visit and brought his Mongoose BMX which reminded me of my Mongoose BMX I had as a child which ended up in us getting a BMX - This is

Lockdown Part Trois

Lockdown Part Trois

Well we are still in lockdown with no real end in sight! Never mind there's plenty of things to keep us occupied! I've been having a go at making Cheesecakes - here's a chocolate one that I made that didn't taste as good as it looks which was a shame.

Lockdown Part Deux

Lockdown Part Deux

Well we should have seen it coming really but here we are back in lock down again! We had "who's who" but I got us the original "guess who" in the retro 80ies box but sold as new! Oscar and I have probably nearly completed every single Lego Speed Champions

Wandin

Last weekend we went on a trip to the Hunter Valley to Wandin Winery. It was a two night stay at a very nice farm. Of course though when we got their so did the latest outbreak of Corona - so instead of going to the ice theme park and

Hugos

We decided we would try and go out on a Friday night with two kids! I think this is the first time we attempted it! We actually ended up seeing Lorraine and Paul out! It was a successful night!

Sydney Night Zoo

Sydney Night Zoo

We did a night at the zoo in April - the weather was starting to get cold but it was still good fun to do. The experience wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be (the pictures show you sitting down having drinks with the Sydney Harbour

Wolgan Valley 2020

2021 New Featured

Wolgan Valley 2020

At the end of the year we had booked in for Booma and Boompa to come and stay with us for Christmas. One of the things we were planning to do was stay at Wolgan Valley for a few nights. Because of COVID flights were cancelled and we couldn't get

Lockdown

Well we all had to go in lockdown in March 2020 in Australia. We spent the time in Palm Beach doing what everyone else was doing, playing board games, computer games, PE with Joe, running out of toilet paper, spraying shopping orders and watching TV news updates. Oscar did his