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NSW Heritage Plates

NSW Heritage Plates 2023

In recent years, the New South Wales (NSW) Heritage plate market has seen a significant increase in value. In the span of just one year, the average price of a 3 digit heritage plate has risen from $268,444 in 2022 to a staggering $349,455 in 2023. This remarkable

2023

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

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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

2022

UK 2022

Our trip to the UK in UK Summer 2022!

2022

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

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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 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'

2022

Summer 2022 The Movie

Didn't really make enough videos but still something!

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

Cars

Bathurst

Had a really good time driving around Bathurst as quickly as possible! Would love to do it again the straights though are incredibly fast and I wouldn't want to try it in the wet!

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Fiji 2019 Six Sense

This year we decided to go back to Fiji but try a different hotel - we'd been to Vomo about 4 times in a row so we'd just thought we'd checkout somewhere different for a change. So we headed over to Six Senses. It was a beautiful island but a

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Bali Badung

We decided that we'd go back to Bali for a holiday now that Oscar and Evie were getting older we (thought) it might be easier. It wasn't but it was still a really fun trip. Evie got really confident with the pool on this trip which was great. We stayed

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Vomo 2018

Another year, another Vomo trip! We have not found a better place to stay! This time we went with Beach Anma and Poppy and stay in the 'BeacHouse' - I liked called it Beac House - rather than Beach House which I think is what they were going for. It

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Wolgan Valley Bike

Wolgan Valley is an awesome eco-resort style hotel that we visited. It has lots and lots of animals. Because we live on a main road Oscar doesn't get much bike training but he learnt how to ride a bike properly thanks to the great paths and free bikes you can

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Vomo 2017

Another year another trip to the Fiji resort of Vomo - it really could not be a better location for family with kids. It has great nanny service, the island is beautiful with amazing walks and Oscar and Evie have an excellent time! So do the parents as we get

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Queenstown 2017

I'm a big fan of "winter breaks" - I like the idea of going to somewhere cold once in a while (but only for a little bit). So we headed to Queenstown - it was very cold indeed but we had a great time. We even ended up being in