by Rachel As we count down our last days in Adelaide and Australia, another library-related post only seemed appropriate. It's down to the wire, but we finally got ourselves to the State Library of South Australia (we've only walked by it I don't know how many times!). The State Library is one of the grand …
Cleland Wildlife Park
By Pippa On Friday the 23rd of March, I went to Cleland Wildlife Park. The bus ride was a little long, but it was totally worth it! I saw Tasmanian devils, different types of wallabies, lizards, snakes, all sorts of birds, wombats, echidnas and dingo’s! I even got to feed kangaroos, emus and bandicoots. The …
Autumn in the rose garden
By Rachel When Rowan and Neil were off at Rowan's bagpipe lesson on Tuesday, Pippa and I decided to see how the roses were doing in Rymill Park. I took my camera for our walk; Pippa did not. It wasn't long, however, before she absconded with mine! I was left with my phone, which managed …
Meeting With Members of the Adelaide Sustainability Team
By Pippa I have recently been doing a project on sustainability so me and my dad decided I should interview some members of the city of Adelaide sustainability team. So, on Friday the ninth of March I went to interview Bec and Sarah. It was great because it ended up being a really good conversation instead of …
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The Lost and Found Orchestra
By Pippa On Saturday the third of March we went to watch the Lost and Found Orchestra which was fun. All the instruments were made of literally any and everything! Seriously! There were traffic cones, pipes, bottles, umbrellas with wind chimes, wine glasses, drums, bellows and more! It was so cool! I was amazed by all the things they turned into …
Adelaide Writers Week
By Rachel Well, here I am, sitting with hundreds of people waiting for Alexander McCall Smith – the last speaker of the last day of the Adelaide Writers’ Week. Not a bad way to spend my time! I have probably listened to more authors in the past five days than I have for years (check …
Community libraries of southeastern South Australia
By Rachel This past week I had the pleasure and the privilege to travel with my colleague from Public Library Services and the State Library of South Australia through the southeastern portion of the state. Over the course of the two days we visited ten libraries in small towns and villages - five were public …
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Walking on the Adelaide oval
On Friday I went for an exhilarating walk on the roof of the Adelaide oval. It was absolutely amazing!! 50 meters up in the air and the only thing that's stopping you from falling is a cable that is attached to your jumpsuit and a pulley. Exhilarating and absolutely awesome!! Here are some photos: This …
Sri Lankan cooking – a follow up
by Rachel Rowan wrote a post about our cooking class that we all participated in while we were in Sri Lanka. I'm sure a few of you were a little skeptical as to whether anything would actually come of it - particularly once we were back in our regular (or as regular as this year …
A year of discovery 