A summary of weekend trips taken and events that we have attended during 2026, for memory keeping. Feb: Bateman’s and Malua Bay 3 days w/ B&T Shepherd’s Lookout beautiful place! w/ B&T March: National Multicultural Festival w/ B&T March: Canberra Balloon Spectacular w/ B&T March: Canberra Day fireworks - Sky Fire 3.14 8:30pm w/ B&T 7:55 pm: RAAF F-35A Lightning II flyover March: Enlighten Festival Canberra 2026 w/ B&T March: short trip to Sydney (work) March: Blue Range Barry and Tom Haig Park Village Markets, Sunday 8:00am to 2:00pm. Dogs are welcome. Dog agility training park next to it. w/ B&W Epic farmers market - a lovely place to walk with your dog and people. w/ B&T Experience Breathing Space, an evocative sound installation created for the Garden of Australian Dreams at the National Museum of Australia. w/ B&T Composed by renowned musician Genevieve Lacey, Breathing Space pays homage to the deep time and ecological abundance of our continent, the ancient, vibrant cultures of First Nations Australians and the waves of migration that have shaped the land. Wander through the Garden and discover sounds and melodies that change subtly, hour by hour, day by day, season by season. Whenever and wherever you are in the Garden, you will hear something new. Saturday 2026-03-21 Harvest Day Out 2026 Lanyon Homestead, 10-3pm w/ Tom 2026-03-27-29 Japan StrEat Party w/ T&B Barry and Bron April: short trip to Sydney w/ Tom late April: Bendora Arboretum ACT beautiful picnic w/ B&T Barry and Bron May: Halls market - very nice outing. Dogs are welcome. w/ B&T May: Mother’s Day Classic walk w/ B&W July: Winter in the woods National Arboretum Canberra w/ B&Barry July: Christmas in July w/ B&Barry September: Gold coast (work)
The drill
My furbaby absolutely loves visiting the pet shop. He knows the routine perfectly: he steps onto the weighing machine, waits for me to tell him to get off, checks out some treats and toys, sniffs around (oh so many smells!), and finally gets a free treat at the checkout from the shop assistant. My furbaby thrives on routine. He’s completely on autopilot in the pet shop, going through everything step by step. He hardly has the time to greet other dogs or human, he won’t let himself getting off track like that. 🤩 ...
A night at Enlighten
Enjoyed a night @enlighten_canberra with T and my furbaby. Enlighten is Canberra’s annual light show. Enlighten Festival 2026 lit up Canberra once again with eleven nights of spectacular Illuminations, stunning art installations, captivating performances, live music, food and after-dark experiences. (Enlighten Festival) I’ve been to this event almost every year. Walking around can be tiring. I had to carry my furbaby in the end 😄 it was well past his bedtime. I wonder if I would come if I didn’t have a guest 😜 ...
Website Tools
Here is a list of useful website building/maintenance tools that I’m using: All posts on this site use Markdown. So here is the always useful Markdown Cheatsheet. Embed YouTube Video with Markdown with a preview image Details on this Github repo e.g. code used for above ^^: [](https://youtu.be/0VxtlFkuDMs?si=tfDuvuYZt-WvZMbn) how to create descriptions for SOE by Google Add-ons for Hugo a nice YouTube training course on Hugo good info on Git submodules for your Hugo Themes - How To Add and Update Git Submodules ...
Website rebuild
This website is powered by Hugo. I’ve been using the Hugo theme LoveIt for a long time and it just won’t do anymore. I’ve found Paper and liked it. So, I’m using PaperMod now for this webiste. 😺 I’ve been avoiding from spending time learning Hugo for so long. For this update, I’m going to learn while I build so I’m not hacking it blindly. I’m actually going to put some thoughts into designing and structuring the site. 😺 ...