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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

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

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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

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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 -

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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

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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

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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

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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'

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Paris Megeve Montreux

Part 2 of our trip to Europe last summer! The Euro Disney part of the trip was very expensive and the Disney hotel we’d stayed in hadn’t had a renovation or update since I stayed there with my parents in 1992 it was like going into a time

NSW Heritage Plate Price Performance 2012-2017

I’m a big fan of heritage plates – they are numeral only plates that were first issued between 1910-1924 that are quite hard to come by. Shannon’s does a twice yearly auction in Sydney. Are they an investment though? 3 Digit plates like ‘317’ or ‘960’ appear to have

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Fiji 2016

Well I decided to start doing the blog again - so that there's a memory of all of the things we've done. It is a shame I didn't write words down at the time but with modern internet. In 2016 we went to Fiji

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Sydney Dubai London August 2016

We did a mammoth 6 week trip with Oscar (3) and Evie (4 months) to Europe in August. I’ve started to edit the video for the trip here’s Part 1 of 2!

Baby Evie

Welcome to the World Baby Evie!

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Thailand Again

We went to Thailand in 2011 it was a great holiday however it rained every single day and it wasn’t even the rainy season! We stayed at a place called Six Senses and I always said to Amy we should go back and see it again without the rain.