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Things I Don’t Want to Forget V.1

A little list from out time in Noosa this year:

  • Finding some puzzles at the Op Shop with H. Finishing them, returning them and getting another lot


  • A riot of kookaburras laughing as I ran up the Tanglewood Track. Were they laughing at me or with me? Bonus thing to remember: that riot is the name for a group of kookaburras
  • My 6 year-old niece comforting and helping a little toddler who had lost sight of her mum in the playground
  • Working outdoors, a constant parade of distraction


  • How to get from my favourite long trail near Donnellan Lake to the main road through the housing estate. This is no joke. It’s one of those estates with virtually no straight streets, and I haven’t once made it out without checking Google Maps
  • The perfect path for completing my intervals next to Lake Weyba
  • Reflections on a glassy Lake Weyba, admired during the recovery interval on one of my workouts


  • Drinks at the Sunset Bar


  • The river on a sunny morning. People out walking, kayaking, boating. Sun glinting on the river


  • Lasagne from the Italian deli. It is still just as good
  • Walks along the river at sunset. My photo roll filling with sunset pics


  • Watching a pelican ski along the river before it touches down
  • The rolling hills of the coastal track and the gorgeous scenery keeping my mind off those hills.


  • Summiting the last hill of my longest run and knowing it was all downhil or flat the rest of the way
  • A string of great meals at the local restaurants—Ricky’s, Bang Bang, The Stonebowl, Sails, Izakaya Ate, and Seasons


  • My first in-person blogger meet-up with Kel of Kel Me About It. We had a lovely chat and probably would have continued for hours if not for it being a workday.


  • A 22s PB at the Noosa Parkrun

… and in the interest of keeping it real—I want to forget about the 10 days of migraines in July.

What’s something you don’t want to forget from the last week?


Comments

21 responses to “Things I Don’t Want to Forget V.1”

  1. Your photos have made me want to get back to that end of the coast more often. So many beautiful moments. I’m still determined to find those fairy pools!

    And thanks again for the catch up, it was so much fun! Definitely a highlight of the week for me.

    1. Yes, it was great fun!

  2. Congrats on the Parkrun PB, Melissa! That’s an EXCELLENT pace!! A 4:2x something, fabulous!
    Which reminds me to ask, are you on Strava?

    Noosa looks like an incredible place – just for those trails alone I would want to be there!

    We had some good social activities last week: eating dinner with our Spanish neighbours (she’s a cook, the gazpacho was incredible!), taking an elderly neighbour for an outing to the mountains and taking my parents for drinks to a restaurant where you had a great view of the lake of Zurich.

    1. LOL, no, I’m not that fast, especially on that parkrun. It is not a 5K PB course, as it is hilly (I think 50m of elevation gain with a big hill at the end) but I was happy to do better than I did last year on the course.

      It sounds like social gatherings are the highlight of a number of readers’ weeks. Which makes sense.

      1. Ah yes, I see now, I misread your 22s PB as a 22min PB. But still, a PB is a PB and should be celebrated! 🥳

  3. How fun to have a blogger meetup! I’m having one this coming week!
    Gosh, I feel like I’ve already forgotten last week. Hmm. What don’t I want to forget that I seem to have already forgotten? What did I even do? Nothing out of the ordinary, I guess, but it was a nice week.

    1. Ooh, who are you meeting with? Ordinary weeks are special in their own way, even if you can’t remember them. Take the win that nothing out of the ordinary bad happened.

  4. Such gorgeous pictures, Melissa! And so much delicious food.

    Blogger meetups are so fun!! I always think it’s hilarious the first blogger I met IRL was Sophie (in the Sun), from… Australia! What are the odds??

    1. Oh, I remember you writing about that. You’ve had a lot more since then

  5. What a great list of sweet memories. I can see why your camera roll is full of sunsets. Your photos are always breath taking, and I imagine they are even better in real life. Ugh on the migraines.

    Coach and I met another couple for drinks and appetizers Friday night. We’ve only met them recently and it’s like we’ve known them forever. We had such a great time. Lots of laughs. In person blog friend meet ups are so fun. Have you heard about the wild and wacky story when blogger Kari emailed me to ask more details about my wedding, because I’d shown a few photos. Um, her ex-husband was my husband’s next door neighbor growing up and she was AT MY WEDDING with her then husband. Never fails to blow my mind at how incredibly small the world felt the day we pieced that together. And Coach was at her first wedding. He was a groomsmen in it. (I couldn’t go – it was when we had maybe just started dating, etc)

    1. Wow, so funny that a reader was at your wedding. It can certainly be a small world sometimes.

  6. These photos are beautiful, especially the drink in the sunset! Gorgeous! And yay for a blogger meetup. 🙂

    What a sweet moment of seeing your niece help out someone younger than her. I love that!

    1. Looking after my niece was a last-minute thing because my mum went into hospital (nothing serious) and was supposed to be looking after her that day but we had a really lovely day and she mostly just fitted in with what we were doing—making puzzles, walking for a coffee etc

  7. Thank you for sharing photos and details of your road trip from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast. We’re embarking on a similar journey (Canberra to Lennox Head) at the end of the year and I’ve loved reading your blog and discovering new things to add our “visit list”.

    1. I’m so glad my recaps have been helpful.

  8. No! Not 10 days of migraines!! That is horrible! I am so sorry! But the rest is lovely, especially the sunset pics. Just looking at them calms me down! Noosa is so incredible. I can’t wait to go back to that area some day!!

    1. Noosa is so beautiful. We are lucky to be able to go fairly regularly.

  9. Booo for the migraines. Defiantly forget those.

    Everything else sounds so lovely. And the photos are gorges. That sunset has amazing colors. Yummy food, gorgeous river and lake views. You truly live in a beautiful place.

    That puzzle also looks so fun.

    1. This was just an extended visit to Noosa, which is a bit more picturesque than where we actually live, although Melbourne does have its own beauty.

  10. A blogger meet-up!!! Sunsets!!
    Sun on the river! All beautiful things.
    From last week… I don’t want to forget my 8 year old daughter baking cookies. A lazy afternoon at the municipal pool. A terrible thunderstorm that was scary but also kind of …awesome?…

    1. It sounds like you are making the most of your summer holidays. My kids loved getting in the kitchen too.

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