Category: Northern Beaches
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New Restaurant Rough & Bare in Mona Vale
Rough & Bare restaurant, yep, that is seriously what they called it, is the newest restaurant in Mona Vale. It is super health focused. I went and checked it out one Friday morning with Mark and Olivia, who both thoroughly enjoyed their meals. All I need to say about my meal, is that when I…
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Restaurant Jah Bar Dee Why has Great Spanish Hospitality
An impromptu family date night, brought on by picking my car up from being serviced, found us looking for a restaurant in Dee Why. I don’t think we’ve visited Dee Why since having Olivia, so it’s fair to say that we aren’t regulars. But Jah Bar might just change that. We started off our meal…
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Visit Restaurant Cottage Point Inn on The Waters of Kuringgai National Park
For Mark’s 30th birthday he got spoilt and taken to restaurant Cottage Point Inn for lunch. Since I’m his wife I got the privilege of accompanying him. Score, even though I couldn’t enjoy the matching wines with degustation menu since Olivia was only three weeks old. However, the rest of the table did, so I…
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Holidays Off The Grid on the Northern Beaches
We started 2014 in the best way I could imagine, off the grid. My little family and I escaped up Coal and Candle Creek, and Smiths Creek for a few days of R&R on the boat. When I say ‘escaped’ I really do mean it, there is no phone reception in Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park which…
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Labouring Baby Lara In Six Short Fierce Hours
Lara and I, 24 hours after labouring. Photo by Sheridan Nilsson. I kept going backwards and forwards thinking about whether or not to publish this post about labouring Lara. Then someone told me that my birth story was so great that someone should make a movie out of it. Luckily there wasn’t a video camera…