I follow Action buses on Twitter, not so I can be riveted by exciting bus news, but so i can find out if my bus has been cancelled or is late for some reason. I get the bus two days a week.
Over the past few days my family has been affected by some cancellations, and [...]

Saw this tweet from Commander Hadfield up in the International Space Station.
Cmdr_Hadfield Chris Hadfield
Canberra, capital of Australia. If you zoom in you can see the circle around Parliament House. pic.twitter.com/p7V6GOKU
I can’t see the road he’s talking about, but I located LBG.

I took this little snap while I was floating around on the space station.
Well, not me obviously, but Commander Hadfield in the space station.
He tweets his pics back down to us earthlings – and they are sometimes of little old Australia.
Burning.

Just saw a tweet from ABC News in Canberra that indicated that whilst the ACT remained fatality free, the local constabulary are alarmed at the number of drivers caught speeding over the festive period. 155 drivers were caught for speeding offences on our roads this Christmas. 155 speeding idiots will be the victim of the [...]

Monsieur Cholet decided that we should take Master Cholet to do a spot of swimming on Boxing Day. We decided to give Woden pool a try for the first time, seeing as Erindale was closed and Tuggeranong centre never looks like it gets the once over with a wet cloth.
Had no cash on us, so [...]

I enrolled young Master Cholet at Isabella Pre-School earlier this year. Thankfully the little tyke has been accepted and is very much looking forward to being a big boy at big school. At this stage he attends a fabulous long daycare facility that does also provide pre-school education for his age group – but at [...]

Going southbound on the Monaro today I noted that the speed limit as you come off of the bridge over the Molonglo that the speed limit now goes from 60 to 90, and not 80.
I also noticed that going through the newly opened southbound section of the highway across Fyshwick, that the speed limit [...]

We’ve had numerous posts on coffee…..so as it is winter, wondered where the best place to get hot chocolate is?
Had a good one today at Urban Pantry in Manuka – made using real chocolate instead of the powdered form.
I do not have a sweet tooth at all, but found this one to be [...]

Out and about with the little bloke yesterday and stopped by Tuggers Town Park.
Took this picture.
A gloriously sunny afternoon, peace and quiet, autumn colours, and a friendly swan – couldn’t ask for more.
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It appears that Canberra’s ire is still causing waves in the US, where Craig Ferguson has now apologised for his remarks made in conversation with Guy Pearce.
In a new conversation with Toni Collette, he baulked at the idea of visiting Australia due to our current hatred of him.
He feels that Australians have a [...]

Just reminded by the radio presenter that Mark Carmody leaves ABC weather today. Some may cheer and some may actually miss him, but who will replace him?
And what will his final button-hole be?
I reminded Monsieur Cholet just yesterday that back in the day, Morrissey (from The Smiths, not the fashion designer), used to [...]

I had to share the experience I had on the bus this morning….it’s a first world type of problem and I seek your forgiveness in advance for even bringing it up.
There I was, on the number 111 on my way to work. Just approaching Woden town centre, about two or three stops away when we [...]

Planning the weeks meals and came across what looked like a really yummy recipe that uses cotechino.
Thought I’d just mosey up to Fyshwick markets and pick some up at one of the deli’s. The closest I got was a wait of two weeks.
I could use italian sausages instead, however I’d like to give [...]

Getting my annual fix of McDonalds today in the new outlet and noticed that they are building a new Ronald McDonald House as part of the new Women and Childrens Hospital.
They are advertising a gala ball in order to raise a million dollars. The raffle prize is an Audi A5 woth $100k – and you [...]

I’ll get this out of the way early…I’m a listener to ABC Radio – namely our local 666. I listen to it in the car and in my office at work – it’s background noise and I tune in and out depending on what I’m doing at the time. I really appreciate the local angle. [...]

It has long occurred to me that Canberra has a distinct lack of places where you can take your young’uns at the weekend – and by that I mean a place where kids can have:

a bit of freedom to run around safely,
decent, challenging, safe and non-vandalised play equipment 
decent healthy affordable food
insode activities for rainy/wintery days

and where [...]

Having a conversation with my younger brother today about whether he and his wife should come and live in the ACT or surrounds, (from Sydney), to enable them to more easily afford a house/apartment.
Having discussed this with him many times before, I am familiar with some of the reasons as to why they can’t. The [...]

I know this has been asked many times on RA before, but we are thinking of adding an extension to our house – one room that will be about 32 square metres.
Having some differences with Mr Cholet on how much we each think we will need to spend.
I note that in a previous post [...]

A couple of times a week I catch the number 111 bus from Calwell to the city. In times past, this bus was not what you would call packed.
Yes, all the seats would be occupied by the time you were close to the city and maybe even by Woden, but it was not full [...]

Over the last two years my Mr Cholet and I have become woeful at keeping our garden tidy, partlydue to throwing a small child into the mix, but mainly because we are probably just too pooped to fit in a good days gardening at the weekend. In the last few weeks because of the rain [...]

Does anyone know of anyone offering an oven cleaning service in Canberra? There are many organisations in Sydney, but nothing that I could find in Canberra. I would prefer it to be chemical free, although would consider any organisation offering the service really.
I wont say I don’t have time to do it because that would [...]

We live next door to a rented property that is tenanted by two blokes with a large dog. The problem we are having is that when said blokes decide to go to the pub after work and not come home for hours the dog barks. And barks, and barks, and barks.
Basically, until someone gets home [...]

Recently I have noticed some signs out near the Spanish Club in Narrabundah advertising Les Tapas restaurant/cafe, primarily it seems selling $15 Schnitzels, (I know, not very spanish). I have often wondered what the Spanish Club is like but have never been able to find any info on it – no website or written info [...]

I have been searching for sometime now to find Californian wines being retailed in Canberra. To date I have had absolutely no luck, apart from a few bottles of fairly expensive stuff at Vintage Cellars. We have been glugging away at French, Italian, German, Chilean, and even a French wine that was apparently the mother [...]

Whilst walking my dog on Sunday afternoon around Calwell playing fields, I noticed, (couldn’t miss it really), a burnt out car dumped on the Tharwa Drive side of the fields. It was so badly damaged that it took me a while to work out what kind of car it was. I think it was a [...]

As we were on the way to Erindale this morning, I commented to my husband that it looked as if some of the bike paths around our area of Tuggeranong have been re-surfaced. As a frequent user of these paths my husband then went on to appraise me of what he thought of the new [...]

ACTION bus (image care of abc.net.au)I’m sure that this is not a new rant or rave, but having just had two days of using the buses in this swealtering heat I will give it a go.
Before I go too far into said rant, the point of my post is this – does anyone know if [...]

On my way to work today – going to the City via Woden – I encountered some kind of police operation. I think it was on Athlon Drive and according to 666 had traffic backed up to Drakeford Drive. Does anyone know what this was for? I purposely went this way as the traffic going [...]