Monthly Archives: April 2013

Family Matters

Saturday night was the party – about 40 of my aunt Beryl’s closest friends and family gathered to celebrate her 80th birthday.  It was a lovely night when we had a chance to catch up with relatives long unseen, and meet their partners and kids.  There was a cupcake cake, speeches, and lots of reminiscing.  […]

NavDashing

You can’t miss an opportunity to orienteer when you travel, so we were pleased to see a NavDash event on the WA calendar. NavDash events are sprints, held on Saturdays in parks or campuses in or near Perth.  They use colour maps and SI and are 2-3 kms long.  They get about 8o people per […]

Gone West

Half of dipidydoo has headed west – Ian and I have joined my family in a visit to Perth.  The occasion is my aunt Beryl’s 80th birthday.  Also here are my cousins Mark, Jess and Sue, and my other aunt Carol.  We tried to work out when all the cousins were last together in the […]