(C) Julie Boyd Horsham, in Victoria, is probably not a place that immediately springs to mind as a holiday destination. Located halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide, it tends to be more of a stop-off point for petrol and snacks on the way between Adelaide’s Pandas and Melbourne’s restaurants. However, look more closely and you find […]
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A Rural Rendezvous – Horsham and the Wimmera
April 22, 2011 by Julie
Filed Under: Travel Tales, Writing Tagged With: Adelaide, Australia, Bunnings Warehouse, Harvey Norman, horsham, Melbourne, Sumatra, Victoria, Wimmera River
Please Take My Son
April 22, 2011 by Julie
(c) Julie Boyd ‘Will you please take my son?’ She stood on the front doorstep of my newly acquired, tiny, ramshackle home, a stunningly beautiful woman. Her long dark curls rioting around a face that would have painters swooning. Gold hoop earrings swung like halos that had slipped, ever so slightly. A brightly patterned skirt […]
Filed Under: Articles- Parenting, Australian Stories Tagged With: australian stories, Family, Father, foster children, julie boyd, Melbourne, Mother, olympics, Parent, Queensland
Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to Drink!
April 3, 2011 by Julie
© Julie Boyd ‘G’day, love. Not sure your little one will make it through okay. Whatderya reckon?’ I looked up to find myself eye to crotch with the owner of the voice, a fluorescent vest-wearing man-mountain who had appeared unannounced outside the window of my small car. Along with a multitude of other lost souls. […]
The Price of Age
© Julie Boyd 2010 We seem to cost more as we get older- or does it just seem that way? So when do we become cost-ineffective? Dogs, cars, people. We all get too expensive to run any more. Then what do we do? My first car was a Mini. Chatsworth I called him, I have […]