Every September for the last few years, someone’s posted a photo of pink flowers stretching to the horizon somewhere up north, I’ve said “we should go see that,” and then we haven’t. This year we actually went. Turns out you don’t need to drive to Morawa for it — Cunderdin Hill Lookout is 156km east […]
Cherrybrook Cherry Blossom Station, Sydney
Cherrybrook is a Metro station on the North West & Bankstown Line, sitting right next to Epping, so it’s an easy one to get to if you’re already anywhere near that part of the line. What makes it worth a stop on its own is what’s growing along both sides of the tracks — a […]
CubeTown Glen Waverley Review
A Sweaty, Screen-Free Way to Burn Off School Holiday Energy We had already done the library, the trampoline park and two wet-weather playgrounds by day three of the holidays, and I was running out of ideas. A friend mentioned she’d taken her kids to CubeTown on the fourth floor of Kingsway Central in Glen Waverley […]
Pull Pop Push at the State Library of South Australia
We are regulars at the State Library of South Australia. Between the Art Gallery next door and the free kids’ corner inside, it has become one of our default rainy-day spots, the kind of place we turn up to without much of a plan. So when we wandered in last weekend and found the ground […]
Cubby Kiosk, Forrestdale – What to Know Before You Go
If you live anywhere near Perth’s southern suburbs and you haven’t been to Cubby Kiosk at 11 Acre Farm yet, put it on the list. We’d heard about it for months before we actually made the trip out to Forrestdale, and it’s now firmly on our repeat-visit list, which for us is the real test […]
Diggerland Braeside Review
My son’s face the second we walked in was worth the drive on its own. Eyes wide, that high-pitched noise kids make when they can’t get a sentence out fast enough. He went from one machine to the next, sweaty, wouldn’t leave. There’s a huge sand pit with a spinning slide built into it, a […]
The Melbourne Museum Where Kids Get to Drive the Tram
There’s a particular kind of joy that comes from watching your child do something they’re normally told not to. Climb into the driver’s seat of a vehicle. Ring a bell as many times as they like. Turn a big steering wheel that actually does something. At the Melbourne Tram Museum in Hawthorn, that’s more or […]
Gumnuts Playland Knox Review
We’d been putting off a weekend trip to Westfield Knox for weeks, mostly because every indoor play centre we already knew felt a bit tired. Then a friend mentioned a new one had opened on Level 2, near Timezone, with a whole nature theme and Aussie animal mascots. That was enough to get us in […]
Dinosaur World Somerville Review
If you’ve got a dinosaur-obsessed kid at home, you’ve probably already had “Dinosaur World” typed into your search bar at some point. It sits just off the Peninsula Link on the way down to the Mornington Peninsula, tucked in behind a Christmas tree farm in Somerville, and it comes up constantly in Melbourne south east […]
EggYolk Cat Lounge, Sunnybank — A Southside Brisbane Cat Café
Work had been full-on that week, non-stop meetings, and by Friday I just wanted to sit somewhere quiet with an animal that didn’t want anything from me. I’d looked up cat cafés in Brisbane a couple of times before but never actually found one on the southside. Then a friend mentioned one in Sunnybank, and […]