Online backup. Trip preparation,
Reg and I are preparing the Eco-Tourer Caravan for our 2010 tour of Australia.  I am interested in hearing from art groups who would like to book a demonstration art tutorial and also dog friendly caravan parks and venues who are interested in being reviewed in this ‘gone bush blog’ or my doggies blog.I am packing our van out as a writer and watercolourist’s studio and the back of the troop carrier is being set up as an oil painter’s studio. This will be a self-funding, hobby business, and holiday.It is time to begin thinki

Take away food at markets and shows.
I have witnessed a lot of good and bad examples of take away food stalls through my years of exhibiting arts and crafts and as a travel writer and at my recent reviewing of Liesurfest, Reg and I ordered hamburgers from the 1st Strathsaye  Scouts Group and I felt they showed  the best of take away food service. They had a covered marquee with three enclosed walls with the food being

Metal Detecting, Gold Prospecting, with Minilab, X-Terra.
I own a Minilab X ` Terra Metal detector with two different discs, one for gold detecting and one for general metal detection. I am still incredibly inexperienced in using it and that is why I was interested to see

Bed and breakfast and accommodations in Paris France.
I toured, last week enjoying rose and perennial gardens in the Goulburn valley, Yarra valley and in the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria. I came home to my own late spring display of Delbard, French roses in my own small cottage garden that was inspired by the plants and romantic settings in the gardens of Giverny.Today my flowerbeds have a colourful display of roses, the last of the bearded

Eco-tourer Slipstream Caravan.
At the Leisurefest RV and Carvan Show, at Bendigo this weekend, it was the caravan Reg and I chose two years ago, the one we have allready ttoured Australia in twice, that was drawing the crowds attention.