Over two days I got through all ten of the private gardens in the festival program, plus the Campbell Rhododendron Gardens on top of that. Honeysett and The Braes were my favourites, along with the small but beautiful Westholme — those two Dogwood trees there really won me over. If I could only pick three, […]
Wild Things Sydney International Kids Festival 2026
Saw a photo of what looked like Stonehenge sitting out the front of the Sydney Opera House and had to find out what was going on, turns out it’s an inflatable rock installation, part of a brand new kids festival called Wild Things, running right through the spring school holidays, 26 September to 11 October. […]
Floriade Canberra 2026 Review – Feast of Flowers and NightFest
Spring always flips my mood the second it shows up, and Floriade is exactly the kind of day that cashes in on that. Went on the Saturday afternoon, around 3 or 4pm, not too crowded and every bed was in full bloom. What’s on this year This year’s theme is Feast of Flowers, running 12 […]
Brett Whiteley Studio Has Reopened in Surry Hills – What It’s Like Inside
I’ve lived in Sydney for two years now, and for most of that time the Brett Whiteley Studio has been a locked door on Raper Street. I first ran into his work while I was studying, where he kept turning up as a reference in the kind of slides that make you scribble “look this […]
Jim Henson Exhibition Brisbane Review
Had a free Tuesday and figured we’d finally get into the city for this one, everyone’s been posting about it. Bert and Ernie are sitting on a painted stoop right near the entrance. Childhood fully unlocked on the spot. Before-school Sesame Street, after-school Sesame Street, every stuffed toy lined up on the couch facing the […]
Festival of the Winds Bondi 2026 – What It Was Really Like on the Day
I went to Festival of the Winds at Bondi Beach on Sunday 13 September 2026, and it felt like half of Sydney had the same plan. Waverley Council says the first festival was held in 1978, and Transport for NSW expected more than 40,000 people this year, so the crowd made sense. This is my […]
Bendigo Tulip Festival – What’s Free, What’s Ticketed, What to Expect
We went to Bendigo on the Sunday! Missed the whole thing last year and still annoyed about it so many months later, so this year we just picked a day and went, no real plan beyond get on the train. 11:02 V/Line from Southern Cross, direct, about two hours. Runs roughly hourly but check the […]
BTS Edition Oreo Cookies
We weren’t in the market for novelty biscuits. It was just a school-holiday errand run through Eastwood Woolworths, milk and bread and whatever else was on the list, and I only stopped because a stack of purple packets in the snack aisle didn’t look like anything I’d seen there before. Oreo doesn’t do purple. Or […]
Sydney 000 Expo at Castle Hill
Someone couldn’t find their shoe so we left forty minutes late, which meant Castle Hill Showground was already half full of cars by the time we got there. My youngest has been obsessed with sirens since he could point at things and he saw a helicopter on the flyer for this and that was the […]
Royal Adelaide Show 2026 Review – What To Know Before You Go
This is the third year in a row we’ve gone to the Royal Adelaide Show, which is starting to feel less like a fun idea and more like a family tradition nobody actually agreed to. We’re not really a showbag family or a “let’s look at the prize cattle” family. We’re a rides family, through […]