Tag Archives: Hume Highway

The Animals That Chose Not to Kill Me This Summer

Three weeks before year’s end, we set off on a long-looked-forward-to summer holiday, conveniently forgetting that Australia is home to some of the most dangerous animals on earth. Naively excited, as only the normally deskbound can be, we left the … Continue reading

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The Service Station Vintage

Me: Where do the grapes come from? Mum: The service station. My parents were wine-making Italians but not the squish it between your toes in a concrete bathtub types.  We left that level of authenticity to our inner city cousins. … Continue reading

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