Travelling with Kids – Adventure isn't just about the plane trips!
During the later part of the winter school holidays we headed off to the Sydney Opera House to watch Jack and the Beanstalk. Both T and I were super excited to introduce the kids to its stage adaptation having both viewed it as children ourselves. Nothing could quite prepare us for what we were to …
Singin’ in the Rain splashed into Sydney’s Lyric Theatre over the weekend after a wildly successful sell-out season in the West-End and a roaring debut in Australia at Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre. Thanks to Nuffnang, we were in the audience for the preview night and what a night it was! As many of you would …
As urban dwellers, my children’s interactions with animals are vastly different to that which I experienced growing up in the country. Other than the birds and dog we have at home, they have limited experience with animals and find all the things that I found laborious as a kid, a novelty. They have never watched …
Reflecting upon my Aboriginal experience growing up is clouded in a lot of confusion and incorrect information. Whilst born in Tasmania, we moved to Darwin when I was quite young. I went to a local public school where, in my memory bank at least, the Aboriginal children were clearly labelled and clearly segregated from everyone else. …
After a trip to San Francisco during winter where my kids discovered the delights of outdoor ice-skating, our whole family has become a little obsessed about winter activities but a little reluctant to actually head to the mountains. Leading up to the winter school holidays, there were lots of pleas from the kids to find something that …
We love sourcing our produce right from the farm and are constantly on the hunt for places to pick fruit and vegetables as they come in season. A few weeks ago I discovered that mandarins are quite abundant in the Wisemans Ferry area and that there are a number of farms that allow you not only …
For the last few years images and news from the annual Hornsby Gang Show have flooded my news feed during the winter school holidays. I’ve always been intrigued by the event and this year I decided to find out a little more and perhaps even attend. Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to meet up …
Our Vivid Sydney at Taronga Zoo 2017 coverage is now LIVE! Click across for full details. Vivid Sydney at Taronga Zoo? Oh yes, it’s happening of the very first time this year as part of their Centenary celebrations! I first heard about this when I attended the Taronga Zoo 2016 Education Launch and then signed my school …
Our Vivid Sydney at Taronga Zoo 2017 coverage is now LIVE! Click across for full details. Last year was my first visit to the Vivid Festival with the kids. We rugged up and headed to Darling Harbour for dinner before walking up to Martin Place and on to Circular Quay. It was an amazing evening, …
Despite living in Sydney for well over a decade, I estimate that I’m yet to discover more than a sliver of the hidden wonders my city has waiting to be explored. I seek them out with the kids, convinced that each will add to our Sydney experience. Over the weekend I asked my Sydney with Kids tribe …
As a young girl, one of my favourite books was Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel, The Secret Garden. I would often whittle away an afternoon or two rereading the pages of my copy, transporting myself into the garden with Mary, Dickon and Colin where I would join them as they played within the walls. I even tamed a magpie, …
Over the weekend, news of a new playground opening in Waterloo with a gigantic slide fuelled my kids excitement and saw us heading there for a visit. I didn’t let on to the kids that our Lord Mayor Clover Moore had officially opened it was back in the first week of April, allowing them to think …
Over two hundred years ago, Major-General Lachlan Macquarie’s second wife Elizabeth would leave her house each day and take a walk along a small peninsula where she would find a ledge to sit and watch for ships sailing into the harbour from Great Britain. By 1810, convicts had hand carved her a chair into the sandstone. It has become …