Mum's gone 2 Aus

This week’s Photo Friday was taken at the outdoor toddler playground in Moore Park’s Entertainment Quarter, Sydney. Whenever I see this sign it makes me smirk because it’s not the most obvious sign you’d expect to see at a playground.

Moore Park Entertainment Quarter Sydney

If you haven’t been before the Entertainment Quarter or “EQ” as it’s commonly known, at Moore Park is a great place to visit with kids. There are two… Read more

Whenever I hear a power tool, especially drills and saws, I’m always reminded of a very important lesson I learnt from The Block. There are rules and regulations in Australia about neighbourhood noise that restrict the use of power tools within certain times of the day, on certain days of the week.

Maybe these rules exist elsewhere in the world but we hadn’t heard of them before moving to Sydney.

What’s The Block?

In case you… Read more

Mr Mum’s gone 2 Aus tells me I’m a little behind the times but this week I heard Fitzy & Wippa’s Sydneysiders song for the first time, and it had me in stitches! We have watched the video several times since first hearing the song and it provides a clever and fun take on Sydney life.

Fitzy & Wippa are well known Australian radio and TV personalities, currently hosting the weekday morning show (6-9am) at Nova… Read more

Last Thursday a new drama started on ABC1 in Australia called The Straits. The weeks preceding the first episode saw plenty of media hype and on screen promotion to ensure maximum viewers. In need of a new drama to follow we tuned in for the feature length season premiere. If you missed it, episode 1 and 2 of The Straits are available to watch online here.

Since enjoying the first few episodes we’ve visited The Straits website and… Read more

In Photo Friday #42 we shared a picture of a new Havaianas vending machine, the first machine was installed in Sydney last year. Today we’d like to share another recent vending machine discovery regarding DVD hire…Oovie machines.

Oovie vending machines aren’t as new as the Havaianas machines and now we’ve started using the machines we’re seeing them everywhere.

Until recently we used our local DVD rental shop and paid around $5… Read more

Recently we took a trip to Palm Beach, the most northern of Sydney’s Northern Beaches and famous for being the film location of Home and Away.

Home and Away is one of Australia’s best known dramas or soap operas. We expect many of the British mums reading our blog spent afternoons after school in the UK watching Neighbours and Home and Away, and possibly dreaming about what it would be like to live in Australia. Look… Read more

For Mum, the best movies are those that educate as well as entertain. I like to watch films that are thought provoking. When I heard about Oranges and Sunshine it sounded like my ideal type of film. The fact that it is based on a true story made it even more appealing; and because the movie deals with events in Britain and Australia we thought it would appeal to Mum’s gone 2 Aus readers.

A true story

When I tuned in to watch Go back to where you came from on SBS One this week, I was interested in what the show was going to reveal on a number of levels.

In three one hour episodes, six Australians live the refugee experience. They followed the typical journey of asylum seekers, in reverse. In Australia they met Iraqi and African refugees trying to make a new life here. They experienced life at sea on… Read more

In the UK I enjoyed reading Heat and Now! magazines. I read them, and the tabloid newspapers, often enough to know who most of the celebrities were, and be interested in their latest activities.

Since moving to Aus, I haven’t really picked up this type of magazine because I simply don’t know who half the people are. The intrigue of reading gossip and celebrity magazines is that you’re getting the latest instalment in someone’s life; if you… Read more