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When you are on the road ‘Would you kids please clean your room’ is easily swapped for “Would you please write in your diary?” And after comparing notes with others, I’m not alone in this fish-wife nagging. I try to get creative. Crafty. Cleverly-sneaky. Anything...
Don’t come to Fraser Island expecting good mobile reception, or a leisurely Sunday drive. Do come however, for a total wilderness sand island experience, where you get off the grid and off the beaten track! Fraser Island deserves every gold star in its World...
We’re no strangers to Fraser Island. It’s the third time here for The Skipper, the second for me, and it’s a whole new world of adventure about to open up for the Squids as we explore the world’s largest sand island. It’s a first however, for us all to sink...
Melbourne to Sydney in one run….quick overnight stop…then hightailing it straight up to the NSW Coast to the sleepy surf town of Scotts Head. We are no stranger to this no-shoes, no shirt hamlet…it’s an annual winter pilgrimage destination for us, and other...
What bettter a place for a peaceful family picnic than the site of the capture and arrest of Ned Kelly (known as the siege of Glenrowan in 1880)...which is just a few hundred clicks from Melbourne on the Hume Highway. The era of Ned Kelly and his gang is one...
There’s no fanfare, tickertape parade or marching girls as we drive out of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula on the start of our adventures. Instead there’s howling winds, hail and bitter cold as we wrestle the last of our furniture into storage and send...
If you are just starting out in hashtag-land, chances are you are feeling a tad overwhelmed. The # symbol is called a hashtag and it can actually be used across several social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and search engines. Originally developed for...
We've just ticked a major to-do task off the list. We met the teachers who would become our support crew for the next 6 months. We took a break from the packing and took a city trip into the rather colourful Distance School of Education for Victoria based out of...
Writer Susan Sontag once wrote “I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list” and I’m following closely behind her as I embark on a 6 mth trip around Australia This week weary winter workers step back into their corporate wear, while I’m swapping mine for camping...
Feeling confused about where to check in on copyright and creative commons license? Online curation is still evolving, and we ain't in Kansas anymore Toto when it comes to checking in on copyright free images! We have actually come a long way from the early years...
SAVE THIS DATE : FRIDAY 13TH JUNE, 2014 Dipped your business toe into social media but feeling overwhelmed as to what to do next? Confused by all the talk of status updates, hashtags, handles and follows and just want someone to tell you what it all means in plain...
A new book written to promote healthier, home-made cleaning alternatives and increase awareness of the dangers of using chemical cleaning products has been launched on the Mornington Peninsula. Caroline Leslie is an environmental clean-freak and the author behind...
So the time has come to reveal some secret Coastwriter plans ...together with The Skipper and the Squids I am hitting the road. The Coastwriter Blog is about to be coated in the dust of Two Kids and a Camper posts! I'm taking my laptop and I'm off to live the...
Someone once suggested to me that a copywriter must have the smallest tool box in the world - all they need is a pen and a piece of paper. I beg to differ. As a copywriter I am forever lugging a heavy bag from writing location to location. As much as the...
I think I would have liked Luke Batty. He had chutzpah. He had cheek. He lived up the road a bit and did similar things after-school as my brood. I would have liked Luke Batty – a lemon juggling, banana eating larrikin who loved to post you-tube snippets and...
How to find the right words of love to fire cupid’s bow I’m not a big wrap for Valentine’s Day. The Skipper though once was, as he proposed to me on February 14th and promptly retired from all romantic gestures after said event. Valentine’s Day however does...
As the Coast Writer I help tell other people's stories . . . and now I lift the tupperware lid on mine. When I was 15 I entertained the idea of becoming a star of the stage and screen. I say entertained the idea, the audience… not so much. I ate all my crusts when...
Today my primary-schooler issued his copywriting mum with an Epic Fail grading when it came to grammar. I’m a tad embarrassed as it’s something I should have known. That’s the problem with thinking you know it all in the word-nerd stakes, it can back-fire. The...
I have just given my kids the summer of my childhood. The summer that sets the scene for all other summer’s to fall obediently in behind it. The pace, the usual suspects, the melancholic flow, the location . . . the perfect formula all now laid out before them for...
Respected peninsula yoga consultant Jan Winslade is offering a blissful beach yoga program every Saturday and Sunday morning throughout Summer at Mt Martha. Back for its 5th year, the Yoga on the Beach program welcomes locals and holiday makers to connect...
Peninsula on-line health food distributor, Bulk Whole Foods has been recognized for its green industry commitment and contribution at a national award ceremony in Sydney last month. The annual GreenLifestyle awards recognised more than 50 leading companies...
