The long awaited surf finally arrived. Its been a long time between waves, but today Jason and I managed to get down to Cabarita near Tweed Heads for beautiful morning of waves.
It was offshore, about waist to head high and perfect. A smaller crowd would always be nice, but there were still enough waves [...]
I like this post from Phil Cooke who suggests the secret to having great ideas is to have so many that sooner or later one has got to be good!
It might sound obvious, but I think we often give up on thinking creatively because we have never had a genuine whizzbang winner pop out.
As [...]
Today as I was driving into Brisbane I started to get annoyed with the gentle dulcet tones of my GPS as she softly instructed me to ‘bear right’ or ‘enter the motorway’. She sounds like a lovely woman and is incredibly patient. Even when I am heading in the opposite direction all she says is [...]
Danelle suggested I need to buy this shirt the other day…
Fair enough, I’m not a ‘natural people person’ and don’t mind long slabs of my own company, but lately I’ve been hanging to see some friends and people with whom I can have a more significant and intelligent conversation about things other than caravans!
It was [...]
Over the trip I have been reading a few newer blogs and websites – well newer to me at least…
On the camping front there is:
Family friendly camping – pretty much what it says and worth a read if you are doing what we are.
Camping in Oz – a general purpose info site
OzCamps – where you [...]
Thanks to a friend we got the tip that yesterday at Australia Zoo kids would get in free because it was Bindi Irwin’s 11th birthday. That saved us a few bucks and also meant that there was a heap more to do. It was a great day and well worth a visit.
After attending the main [...]
Recently I have been considering again what it means to be a ‘missionary community’, and I have been pondering what ‘values’ we would hold dear, and to be honest I get very weary of those ‘discovering our values’ exercises because inevitably we discover that we value the Bible, prayer, relationships etc. Its all no brainer [...]
Over the last few days I have asked one commenter to stop commenting on this blog because he has chosen to do it anonymously. He has said some bold things but hasn’t had the guts to put his real name to them. I have deleted seven comments and repeatedly asked him to give it up. [...]
As I have been using my iPhone a lot on the road I have been considering replacing the battery. I was fairly sure this would be an expensive process and I probably wouldn’t actually do it, but I thought I’d ring Apple just to check…
So I got on the phone and got thru the options [...]
Lately I’ve been getting increasingly concerned about anonymous blogging and commenting.
I’ve been blogging for seven years now and while I do it under the ‘backyardmissionary’ moniker, its not hard to work out who I am, where I live and what I do. That is intentional. I offer my thoughts and reflections on issues and [...]