This Perth Life

Dinosaurs Alive!!!

This sounds great and me and my two boys will certainly be visiting this new exhibition in the next couple of weeks...have to say we love the museum and the regular exhibitions have all been great.

The Western Australian Museum has an educative and fun-filled exhibition featuring robotic dinosaurs. It takes visitors along the 165-million-year journey of the Age of Dinosaurs.

You'll be able to marvel and learn about seven dinosaurs on display as you walk through the exhibition. You'll be seeing a Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor, Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Iguanodon and Triceratops in motion. The exhibition presents more wonderful learning opportunities with informative panels on climate change, flora and fauna, fossils, extinction theories, endangered species and Australian dinosaurs placed throughout the space.

There's also a shop with books, toys and a range of useful and educative dinosaur related products.

It takes about an hour to experience the whole exhibition but there is no time limit.

You can see DINOSAURS ALIVE! until 7th March 2010, admission fees apply.

For more information go to www.dinosaursalive.tv

Smell the Eucalypts

Eucalypts Lake Gregory S30317
Originally uploaded by yaruman5.

I've just got back from driving round trying to get youngest son off to sleep.

He's at that age where you fear that he may be outgrowing daytime naps (please God he goes on till at least his 3rd Birthday!) on odd days but today wasn't one of those. He went to get his blanket and settled himself in his Thomas The Tank Engine paddling pool that is currently full of play balls in the family room (don't ask). As his neck was at rather peculiar angle I decided not to let him fall asleep in there but hoisted him out, blanket and 3 cuddly toys and all, and popped him in the car. 

It's been raining a little this morning (tra la la Little April Showers I hum to myself) and to get him off to sleep I've been driving in the country. It's only 5 minutes from our suburb to the country (how long this will last is anybody's guess at the rate of houses going up) and I love the fact that I can trawl down country lanes and find new ways of getting here, there and "oh that's where we've ended up".

Because of the rain though, the air was completely pungent with the scent of eucalypts, my window was down and I breathed in a day spa worth of natural scents. Bliss.  

A Place in the Sun?

I was interviewed yesterday over the phone by a very nice journalist for a piece in the magazine "A Place in the Sun" which is a Channel 4 tv show in the UK.

During the interview he asked me why we had moved (answer: husband's job) and what the greatest plus was. This was easy to answer, the lifestyle change to our kid's upbringing.

We've been here for nearly 5 years now and I still enjoy and relish seeing them running around in the open air with big smiles on their faces. I don't worry about them catching a cold, picking up cigarette butts, getting dog poo on their feet, wondering why their favourite piece of play equipment is out of action due to vandals and I could go on and on.

So sometimes, when day to day life gets the better of me and I can't see the wood for the trees, I'll remember this interview and my answers and I'll soon have a smile on my face!

Back from Hols

And a good time was had by all!

We've been to Exmouth and Shark bay on holiday. This was our first visit to Exmouth and the Ninagloo Reef and it truly is stunning.

We went by car, which is rather a long journey (understatement of the century!) and took two days getting up there from Perth. Then it's a full days journey from Exmouth to Denham at Shark Bay and a full day back to Perth so all in all four whole days of a fourteen day holiday were taken up travelling in the car.

I have to say that next time we go (and we will go again, it's gorgeous) I hope that husband can take 3 weeks off!!!

Meat Online

I used to do quite a bit of food shopping online especially when I was working full time and really couldn't be bothered going to the supermarket on my way home from work. Particularly if it was a dark and wet Winter's night.

That was when we were living in the UK and supermarkets were open until 9pm every night of the week so what full time workers do here I have no clue. Oh yes, silly me! They must brave it with every other working mand a woman on either a Saturday or late night Thursday.

Actually if I carry on, it'll take me to the whole debate about extending shopping hours and whether our MP's can actually make a decision on their own or if they're too frightened to. But that's another post in itself...

Anyway, moving on. Here's a company where you can order lamb (and now beef) online and have it delivered to your door. In short, welcome to the Farm Fresh Lamb Company!

The Farm Fresh Lamb Co will deliver farm fresh meat to your door in metro Perth for approximately 20% less than retail prices!

You can also purchase farm direct products such as free-range eggs and honey online. All the fresh produce comes from Western Australian farmers and the meat is professionally butchered into cuts and vacuum packed for convenience. Which means it'll stay fresh in your fridge for longer which is a huge bonus plus you can order and take it away on camping trips etc!

There's FREE HOME DELIVERY to your home or workplace anywhere from Dawesville to Quinns Rock, east to Chidlow and everywhere in between. Plus the drivers offer a mobile EFTPOS facility for easy payment using Eftpos, Mastercard or Visacard and you only pay when your meat is delivered, not ordered!

The ordering is pretty easy and the choice and cuts of meat are fully explained so you know what you are getting when you order.

Give it a go and let me know how you get on!

Grafitti Crack Down

Rail Line Grafitti
Originally uploaded by Wyrmworld.

It's about time.

When we arrived in Perth nearly 5 years ago, there was hardly any graffitti. In fact it was one of the things that I mentioned to family, the lack of graffitti was noticable.

Not any more. Now it seems to be everywhere.

Finally the Government are doing something about it and introducing fines of up to $24,000 and up to 2 years in jail.

But will it stop them? Has anyone actually seen a graffitti "artist" at work? They seem to do all their work at night under the cover of darkness. I've certainly never seen anyone actually doing graffitti but I have seen graffitti magically appear overnight. 

I just hope it works. 

More Routes Please!

Jetstar Airbus A320-200 front, SIN
Originally uploaded by StarvingFox.

Good news this morning from both Jetstar and Virgin Blue who are putting on a (sort of in the case of Jetstar) direct route between Perth and Phuket.

Listen to me! I'm writing as if I'm hopping on and off a plane every other week!

Well I can assure you that I'm not but after searching for flights for husband last October to get him to Phuket from Perth I'm pleased to say that at least these two airlines have joined Tiger Airlines in realising that we Perthites do actually want to go OUT of WA for our holidays on occasion. This has made it that little bit easier.

Although it would be much easier if they weren't just twice weekly flights but daily flights.

At least it's a start.

Parties Galore!

Tupperware
Originally uploaded by Athenamama.

In the past few months I've had a plethora of party invitations. Not to birthday parties or anything exciting like that. No, to parties where I'm expected to spend money.

So far I've been invited to (and attended some but not all) Phoenix Cards, Tupperware, Enjo, Tupperware (again), Childrens Educational Books, Childrens Educational Toys (apparently slightly different to the book party), Tupperware (again), Phoenix Cards (again), Enjo (again) and Tupperware (again).

Now where's the party that I would love to go to and would probably spend loads of money? Method of course! I wonder if they have home sellers here in Australia?